With the Husky Ride at Stonyford postponed, Eric and I needed to find somewhere to ride. I'd had enough of the rain and started looking around for some sun on www.noaa.gov. I found it at Ballinger Canyon in the Los Padres National Forest. We headed down Thursday night and were on the trails by 11am Friday...
We had the place all to ourselves, and the trails had no tracks on them at all. I guess nobody had ridden there since before the last rains. Conditions were perfect, the weather was perfect, our campsite was perfect...just a stellar day for riding!
This section had a high pucker factor...
My turn...
The wildflowers are starting to come out...
This was the only mud we ran into, but it was nasty. My wheels just quit turning, and I had to stop and scrape some of the mud off with a stick in order to continue. Reminded me of Carnegie...
We ran into some mud further down this canyon, too, but it was different. It was sorta sandyish rocky mud that had run down the canyon in the last rain...it was huge fun, even on a trials tire!
We headed out of the canyon and up onto the ridges...
We had to climb up in order to go around this huge chasm...
This stuff seemed to go on forever...
We dropped down off the ridge into a sandy little canyon...
There were lots of pokey little cactus things...
More to come...

We had the place all to ourselves, and the trails had no tracks on them at all. I guess nobody had ridden there since before the last rains. Conditions were perfect, the weather was perfect, our campsite was perfect...just a stellar day for riding!


This section had a high pucker factor...

My turn...

The wildflowers are starting to come out...

This was the only mud we ran into, but it was nasty. My wheels just quit turning, and I had to stop and scrape some of the mud off with a stick in order to continue. Reminded me of Carnegie...

We ran into some mud further down this canyon, too, but it was different. It was sorta sandyish rocky mud that had run down the canyon in the last rain...it was huge fun, even on a trials tire!



We headed out of the canyon and up onto the ridges...

We had to climb up in order to go around this huge chasm...



This stuff seemed to go on forever...

We dropped down off the ridge into a sandy little canyon...

There were lots of pokey little cactus things...

More to come...