Tuesday evening, the gang headed out for a ride to explore the newer chunk of trail that was built on Red Mt last year. We call it Red Line, after the infamous A-Line in Whistler. I think it's real name is Joyride or something. I am sticking to Red Line.
The monsoon season continued Tuesday with a huge hail storm earlier in the day, but it cleared in the afternoon. Tuesday night ride was on. YEAH, we have cancelled way to many Tuesday night rides this spring. Let us go get wet from perspiration instead of condensation.
Decided to take the longer and hopefully drier way over to the Red Line Trail. Up Mo's to Larry's over to Miner's and up to Red Top intersection with Dale's Trail. Mud and water, mud and water, when is it going to dry up?
Headed down Red Top with the plan to turn off on the Old Red Mt Road and ride across the T-Bar to the top of the Old Silver Load lift. On the way we are reminded of the trails that were cut to service the lift riders, when Red ran the Old Silver Load for mountain biking. Too bad that they don't still do that. Based on all the gasoline being burned by the truck droppers around here there should be plenty of riders to make it profitable. Lift passes would be a lot cheaper than diesel. At least Sweetfield Shuttles is busy. Does anybody ride uphill anymore?
Enough ranting, and on to the top of Red Line. What a mud fest? The rain and hail has taken it's toll on Red Line. The dips between the features(table tops, lips, booters and berms) are like swamps. We had water and mud flying everywhere. Dirtiest ride of the year. Everyone looked like they had fallen on the same swamp that I did on SMD last Thursday. Still some good turns but the water has really turned this into MUD LINE. Hopefully when it dries up and is cleaned up it will ride like it used to.
Still smiling, we rode up to Curly's and finished off with some sweet single track and a quick rip to the shop for a wash and a beer. At least we got a Tuesday night ride even if it was on MUD LINE.
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