What a nice SURPRISE......

[XPirate]

So Slacker calls me up and says "Hey Garrett, works slow, thinking about heading up towards Isabella and checking out some trails.....Got any plans??? Want to go??" HELL YEAH I DO....After pulling an all niter at work my boss asks me to stay over, I tell him only if I can leave in time to go riding...So after 16 hours at work, I jam home, load up and head for the the trail.... Let me tell you, we were both in AWWWWWW 45 mins from our front door is 1 awesome trail... It's rated most difficult and probably one of the toughest trails I've driven. A lot of off-camber, up hill, deep rutted trails...Took us about 3hrs to cover 15.6 miles!!!!! we took 1 small break as we wanted to explore as much as possible without headlight time. There are so many trails to explore up there that we are now looking for a good spot to set up camp for a weekend...I wish could have caught all of the "short-bus" 3-wheel action with the camera, but I was having so much fun I forgot I had the dang thing till we were headed back to the trucks....Hope you enjoy the few pics I did snap, and hope some of our friends can head up for some more exploring in the future...Having trouble attaching photos, but will get some up soon..

[onerich]

Originally Posted by XPirate

So Slacker calls me up and says "Hey Garrett, works slow, thinking about heading up towards Isabella and checking out some trails.....Got any plans??? Want to go??" HELL YEAH I DO....After pulling an all niter at work my boss asks me to stay over, I tell him only if I can leave in time to go riding...So after 16 hours at work, I jam home, load up and head for the the trail.... Let me tell you, we were both in AWWWWWW 45 mins from our front door is 1 awesome trail... It's rated most difficult and probably one of the toughest trails I've driven. A lot of off-camber, up hill, deep rutted trails...Took us about 3hrs to cover 15.6 miles!!!!! we took 1 small break as we wanted to explore as much as possible without headlight time. There are so many trails to explore up there that we are now looking for a good spot to set up camp for a weekend...I wish could have caught all of the "short-bus" 3-wheel action with the camera, but I was having so much fun I forgot I had the dang thing till we were headed back to the trucks....Hope you enjoy the few pics I did snap, and hope some of our friends can head up for some more exploring in the future...Having trouble attaching photos, but will get some up soon..

I was just talking with Dan about that area this week, I have been up there sense my mtn. bike racing days , that place is Great .

[X-Racer]

* subscribed * ...not sure about in the summer, but still listening.

[66cummins]

you guys hit up keyesville area?

[onerich]

Originally Posted by 66cummins

you guys hit up keyesville area?

That is were we would mtn. bike race back 94 or 95 , it nice up there . PIC'S ???

[XPirate]

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We chose to start at "freeway ridge" up to "black gulch" and then some exploring...not even sure it was a marked trail....

I saw a marker for the Keysville trail, but didn't head that way.... Heard you can camp there and head up??? My neighbor got married up at Evans Flat last summer...Lots of cool trails up there and he said you can link them to freeway ridge or keysville... so a possible camping/staging spot in the works...

It would be nice to start at freeway ridge, but very small staging area, our 2 trucks pretty much filled it up. Well, until further investigation I'll keep trying to post some pics....