ladiesridesquamish.com

This Week:

Ride Date: Thursday, September 24

Time: 5:30 pm

Place: Quest University by the Gymnasium. Please bring a car or arrange a ride as we will be driving up to the turnoff from Garibaldi Park Road. If you would like to ride up, please meet us at the turn off at 5:45. 

Ride Length: 1.5 hrs

Difficulty: Advanced Intermediate, be prepared to pedal uphill for at least 30  minutes for Pseudo Tsuga. The trail itself is generally downhill, so good braking technique is important.

We will drive up and park at the Ring Creek North  FSR turnoff just past Darwin’s bridge turnoff.

From there, we will ride 20-30 minutes up Ring Creek North FSR to the Pseudo Tsuga trail head. Pseudo Tsuga is a Blue (intermediate) down-hill trail. It winds back and forth across the hillside through a selectively cut forest.The most challenging parts of this trail are a few technical corners with steep roll-downs, and some steeper sections that tend to have loose gravel. These sections are interspersed with more gentle single track so you have lots of time to “reset” between challenges.

If you enjoy riding Roller Coaster, you will probably enjoy this trail.

If you walk large sections of Roller Coaster, or have difficulty riding uphill, this may not be the ride for you.

See you on the trails!

Jen

 

If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!

Ride Date: September 17

Time: 6:00 pm 

Place: Stump Lake parking area in Alice Lake Park

Ride Length: 1.5 hrs

Difficulty:  Intermediate

Route: We will ride up the Four Lakes trail from Stump Lake to Fawn Lake then across to Edith lake, and down to Alice Lake. Here you can extend the ride down Jack’s Trail, or ride back to the parking lot.

The Four Lakes Trail

This trail is open to mountain biking as of September 15. It is a great single track trail with a few roots and rocks, but nothing too crazy. Technically it is a green trail, but I consider it more of an intermediate ride due to a few technical switchbacks, and the amount of uphill riding. Make sure to control your speed on the section from Edith to Alice Lake!

Jack’s Trail

This is an easy single-track trail. More technical than the Four lakes Trail, but wider than most of the single-track in Squamish, so allows for lots of room to work on steering. It’s moderate downhill slope makes it a great place to practice braking and balancing on the bike. Riders will encounter small roots, rocks, and a few logs to ride over.

See you tonight!

Ride Date: Thursday, September 10 

Time: 6:oo pm

Place: Raven’s Plateau in Valleycliffe at the corner of  Westway and Cherry Drive

Ride Length: 1.5 hrs

Difficulty: Intermediate

The group will will ride  up the powerlines to the powerhouse gravel road which will take us to the beginning of the Farther Side. From there we wil ride the Farther side, part of S&M Connector, and maybe Meet Yer Maker. This route involves lots of pedalling- so bring water!

Trails:

The Farther Side

This trail has undergone a few changes in the last few years, and each one of them seems to have made it longer. It starts by going up and up and up, leveling off every now and then to allow you to catch your breath. Now we all now that what goes up must come down, and this trail does that with style.

 S&M Connector

 This is a nice access trail for Lost Loop and Meet Your Maker. Most of it is similar to the Mashiter Trail in both grade and technical difficulty. However, it is a fair bit shorter. It starts out as double track with two short trail sections that climb to the right then descend and rejoin the main trail. Near the end there is a short bridge over a creek then a slightly more technical section.

See you on the trail!

 Jen