On August 23 the Holy Wow Gang started the Tuesday night ride with what is known as a circle ride. Just for those of you that don't know what that is, here is an explanation. The riders that show up, ride in a circle until someone takes the lead and takes the group on a trail ride of their choice or the group comes to a consensus on a ride and off we go. Circle rides can be quite interesting and sometimes we discover new and exciting pieces of trail that we did not even know existed. Such was the case on Tuesday night.
We rode the long way up to Red Head via Larry's and Miners and went down the Old Red Head trail that has been neglected since the building of Red Top. Quite a few logs to be crossed but the trail itself was in good shape. Felt a little old school and that was a neat feeling. Eventually we ran into the new trail and continued down to the transition trail that took us to Dale's Trail and then out on to the T-Bar. Rode across the T-Bar and up the old trail to the top of the old Silver load lift. Lots of old stuff here but very nostalgic. Where to now?
At this point we were in explore mode. We had seen a piece of wild looking trail in this area on one of our previous rides and wondered if there was more. Rumors of a trail all the way down Granite have floated around for a couple years, but nothing much has been said publicly. Could it be so? Up and over toward the new Silver Load chair, heading in the general direction of our previous sighting. Lo and behold, we found the Mother Lode, a super bermed, bridged, tabletopped , gap jumped piece of mountain bike magic. Wonder who the creator is? We were definitely the benefactors on this evening. Huge smiles all around. Thank you to the mountain bike god's. Can't wait to ride it again.
Looks like there is going to be more trail too, because some of us rode up a roughed out trail that extended its way up towards the Old Turkey Alley ski run. Humm. This will be great. Another trail to make Rossland even better than the best place to ride on earth.
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