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Shade Mountain this weekend (sat 8/27 or sun 8/28)?

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I wilted like a delicate little flower today. I don't do well in heat/humidity and it kicked my butt (although Joe says it wasn't hot). Shade is too far for me to drive to just get one loop in but I was spent.
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Oh, and Joe made easy work of going up the hill..
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It was only like 85 there, come on :lol2: This ride was much better with my Husky vs the yamaha wr-f I rode last time.



Also, I hit a spider web that I thought I was going to get stuck in. That spider opted for the mil spec package instead of the standard duty :jack:
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Marylander wrote:I wilted like a delicate little flower today. I don't do well in heat/humidity and it kicked my butt (although Joe says it wasn't hot). Shade is too far for me to drive to just get one loop in but I was spent.

Heat can be brutal.
Hopefully it wont be too bad in a week and a half when we go riding.
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gots_a_sol wrote:It was only like 85 there, come on :lol2: This ride was much better with my Husky vs the yamaha wr-f I rode last time.
I said I was like a delicate flower, c'mon! ;)

I'm definitely looking forward to fall and winter and do hope we get some cool weather for the cove ride coming up.
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Re: Shade Mountain this weekend (sat 8/27 or sun 8/28)?

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Thanks for the reports. The heat is hard on the OFG too!

So did you and/or Joe go UP the hard southern most trail (steep and rocky with the high side to your left & low side right) that would be on a counter clockwise loop (this would be starting from the right side of the parking lot (with you back to the paved road) and taking all the right turns?
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We ran clockwise for the most part. But when we got to the bottom of the hill I turned around and took a run at going back up it.
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That is a CHALLENGING climb!

Hard to believe but that was an option at the end of the 7-Mtns DS last year! (An all day long event) :shrug:
We'd gotten lost (me and Trialsrider) so were late getting there and they were stopping people from going UP as the course worker help crew were DEAD from pushing/dragging stuck bikes! DUH!
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Wasn't the prettiest run, but I did get up it.


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Some more vid

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