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Sunday Morning Three Sisters Ride Report

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EdZilla

Discussion Starter · Jul 17, 2006

Andy and I made it to the lower lot by about 7:30AM or so and were riding just before 8. The weather was perfect and this early, it wasn't hot yet.

We started across the road up Evergreen Mtn trail east, did the loop up top around Evergreen Mt. and blasted down Evergreen Mt. trail west, dodging bikers, hikers and dogs about every 100 feet.

We crossed the road again at the upper lot and climbed up to the top of the Sisters trail. On the climb up to the Sisters I stalled out on the first relatively easy switchback but then cleaned every remaining tricky rocky obstacle the rest of the way.

After catching our breath at the top we talked about all the injuries from the next section (down the Sisters). Andy told me about Seth Walen's broken collar bone and I reminded him of my nose wheelie off the cliff/lacerated leg incident and his helmet/rock impact crash a couple years back. Despite those lingering memories we rode down pretty fast (Andy did anyway) and then at the bottom we decided to take the Dedisse trail down to the river and back.

The climb up to the the top was a fast zig zaggy obstacle course that was a ton of fun. The descent to the river was a fast obstacle course of other bikers and what I swear was a swarm of Africanized Killer bees. I nearly crashed at high speed while swatting the meanest nastiest one as he stung me on the chest. The guy behind me (who happened to be a pharmacist) advised me to get down to the lake "before you go into anaphalactic shock" because he said he was fresh out of whatever the stuff is that you use to counteract bee stings.

Since I am apparenly not in mortal danger of bee sting poison, I survived the trip down to the river and then the (painful, and now pretty hot) climb back up to the top and to the car.

After talking Andy into having a post ride beer, "Geez, it's not even 10:AM!", I was surprised and kinda disappointed to see that my bee sting was hardly noticible. As other cars streamed into the parking lot we chilled with our beers, counted how many people asked us if we were leaving and talked about Andy's sweet Ace Hardware emblazened Jeep Rubicon that we rode up in.

It was a great ride. Check out the attached jpeg of the route.

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gotdirt

· #2 · Jul 17, 2006

EdZilla said:
It was a great ride. Check out the attached jpeg of the route.

no attached jpeg of the route to be found... please post if you get a chance, as i'm interested and have never made it up to that trail.

fwiw, lacking all common sense i wasn't smart enough to ride at 7:30 in the morning yesterday, but rather at 3:30 in the afternoon. come to think of it, no post-ride beer either.

geesh, i must've had heat stroke.

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schnauzers

· #3 · Jul 17, 2006

EdZilla said:
After talking Andy into having a post ride beer, "Geez, it's not even 10:AM!", I was surprised and kinda disappointed to see that my bee sting was hardly noticible. As other cars streamed into the parking lot we chilled with our beers, counted how many people asked us if we were leaving and talked about Andy's sweet Ace Hardware emblazened Jeep Rubicon that we rode up in.

It was a great ride. Check out the attached jpeg of the route.

What is with those Evergreen trails? Very crowded! I attempted a ride with TE on Saturday which was supposed to do all three parks (35 miles). I just about make it up Bergen and a walking rock causes my rear derailleur to explode :madmax:. I had to coast all the way back to the car at Evergreen Lake. It was made more difficult by a sea of hikers causes me to stop every ten feet. I have never seen that many people on a trail, even in crowded old New Jersey.

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EdZilla

Discussion Starter · #4 · Jul 17, 2006

schnauzers said:
What is with those Evergreen trails? Very crowded! I attempted a ride with TE on Saturday which was supposed to do all three parks (35 miles). I just about make it up Bergen and a walking rock causes my rear derailleur to explode :madmax:. I had to coast all the way back to the car at Evergreen Lake. It was made more difficult by a sea of hikers causes me to stop every ten feet. I have never seen that many people on a trail, even in crowded old New Jersey.

It's gotta be the heat. By about 8:30 or so the trail down Evergreen mt. was like rush hour. I wonder how many people were at the lower more exposed FR trails like Apex and Dakota Ridge.

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Steve71

· #5 · Jul 17, 2006

I avoid Evergreen at all costs on the weekend. It's crowded enough during the week (with MTB'ers).

Hell hath no fury like a grumpy old hikers scorn.

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