A Dusty Affair

This has been a fantastic season of riding and Tuesday Night (Aug 4) just upped the level of goodness by a notch. Six of the gang turned out for the climb up Malde Creek in the heat, but no sun. The smoke from forest fires and perhaps thin cloud cover blocked the sun but trapped the heat. Malde was a as fun as ever. We crested the summit and worked our way up rock crush road to the Tamarack trail head. The Tamarack trail is an awesome addition to our trail network and we have enjoyed it numerous times. The trail is quite new and the surface is not settled so it provided a fair amount of dust(still cleaning it out of my eyes and nose this morning). After riding Tamarack to Drake's intersection we decided to ride Drake's in reverse. We did not realize how much up hill that trail has when you are going the other way. Quite the workout. We even got to sample the go around that the trail crew has put in to counter the blockage created by an irate land owner. It was pretty rough and dusty but after a little more work and a winter it should be good. On to Al Santano's for a well earned beer. All in all a superb night of single track. Rolling single track is kind of fun.