After a walk up the Red Head trail for a huckleberry outing on Monday evening, I felt a little nostalgia for the Old Girl. We had not ridden the trail for a long time. I decided to put the Old Red Head trail up for grabs as a Tuesday night ride. Eight Holy Wow Gang members bought in and up Red Mountain we went on a hot August evening. We took the lowest pitched route to the trail head in the hopes of keeping the sweat factor as cool as possible.
The route up took us along Moe's to Larry's past Camp Doobie to the Enchanted Forest and up onto the Gas Line. Really great hot summer night single track mostly on the shady side of the mountain. At this point we had to gain some vertical but a stop to pick some huckleberries added a refreshing pause to the journey.
The trail head came none to soon but some idiot decided to go up Dale's Trail to get a better view. The landscape was beautiful. It included a evening light painting of Rossland with a forest fire burning in the distance (probably over the border). The extra up caused a division in the group. Two riders decided that they had enough vertical gain and down they went never to be seen again during the ride. Hope they made it home OK.
Time for the decent. Old Red Head has some steeper, rockier sections than Red Top. It was good to revisit these features along with the many bridges and a couple of skinnies. Very fun single track. Finished the ride off with a rip down O'Flanagan's, a climb back up Larry's to visit the third of the Three Stooges, Curly's and a zip down Center Star to home.
Needless to say, the refreshments were extra refreshing after a great flashback ride of the Old Girl.
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