Yesterday was great day filled with a good ride on one of the most beautiful trails I have ever been on. Today was filled with quite the opposite. After hitting snooze on our 7 am wake up call for 2 hours we finally made our way to wallmart to get some new tires put on the truck. I can truly say that 3 hours inside of wallmart’s customer service area has nothing on crystal blue pools, waterfalls, and lush green vegetation. The McKenzie River Trail is a short drive outside of Bend. It follows the McKenzie River for 26 miles over a variety of terrain which kept things interesting. It would switch between super fast smooth single track or having to pick your way through super technical lava rock fields.
The trail also marked some firsts: the lava rocks caused Mr. Roosh his first flat of the trip. Although he is still leagues behind us in running flat tally, Tyler and I gladly welcome him to the club. Secondly, this ride required a shuttle back to the car along the main road, we sent our most experienced hitch hiker out on a mission to get our truck. A short time later the truck appeared to pick us and our gear up. This saved us $200 (that’s what we were quoted to shuttle the 3 of us). We celebrated with some Thai food, hun-yeah!
We noticed in the guest book a request was made to elaborate on the pixie cross and river jump competitions held during the Downieville Classic. I found some footage that lully had shot during the weekend and edited a little video together. It has the start of the race (mountain bike race starts don’t look like this in the Maritimes…), the first and second place river jumpers, and a heat of the pixie cross race.
2009 Downieville Classic Festivities from Ben Crook-Hanna on Vimeo.
We have been busy and also have a video of our riding in Oarkridge done.
Oakridge, Oregon from Ben Crook-Hanna on Vimeo.
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