Literally snapshots from my GoPro videos that I took yesterday....
With all this warm, dry weather we have been having this winter so far, the mountains have not gotten much snow at all. So a friend of mine who lives in a certain large mountain community invited me up to do a little trail riding on Saturday. Most of the gates to the forest were open, and the weather was sunny with day time highs in the mid 60s. The only gates that were closed, were those that were on routes that received so little direct sunlight, that they never got warm enough to thaw out and had a coating of ice on them. The Forest Service likes to lock those because...let's face it....Southern Californians are not the brightest bulbs on the string when it comes to driving on snow or ice.
So the gates are locked to avoid problems. My friend and I managed to squeeze around the gates so that we could short cut to the trails, and weren't bothered by the ice, because we were on fun trail bikes that like that sort of thing.
So I drove up and staged at his house, and off we went...he on his street plated two stroke YZ250, and I on my trusty, if not somewhat dated and heavy TE450. We had a nice day of finding little trails to play on, a few leftover patches of snow and a bit of mud in an otherwise dry environment. Nobody else was out and about, except on some of main trails and then it was just Jeepers heading for the boulder fields.
Leave it to a mountain local to know where all the fun, scenic stuff is.
With all this warm, dry weather we have been having this winter so far, the mountains have not gotten much snow at all. So a friend of mine who lives in a certain large mountain community invited me up to do a little trail riding on Saturday. Most of the gates to the forest were open, and the weather was sunny with day time highs in the mid 60s. The only gates that were closed, were those that were on routes that received so little direct sunlight, that they never got warm enough to thaw out and had a coating of ice on them. The Forest Service likes to lock those because...let's face it....Southern Californians are not the brightest bulbs on the string when it comes to driving on snow or ice.
So the gates are locked to avoid problems. My friend and I managed to squeeze around the gates so that we could short cut to the trails, and weren't bothered by the ice, because we were on fun trail bikes that like that sort of thing.So I drove up and staged at his house, and off we went...he on his street plated two stroke YZ250, and I on my trusty, if not somewhat dated and heavy TE450. We had a nice day of finding little trails to play on, a few leftover patches of snow and a bit of mud in an otherwise dry environment. Nobody else was out and about, except on some of main trails and then it was just Jeepers heading for the boulder fields.
Leave it to a mountain local to know where all the fun, scenic stuff is.
