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Ride Date: July 24, 2008

Time: 6:00 pm

Length: 3 hours (due to the time it takes to drive up)

Place: Tantalus Bike Shop

Difficulty: Intermediate- You should be able to ride uphill for half an hour, and have intermediate bike handling skills.

We’re going to step it up this week with a ride that is a little more downhill than cross country. Now don’t think that means you won’t get a workout, because we still have to ride up the road to get there.

We will meet at the Tantalus Bike Shop as usual, but from there we will be driving up Garibaldi park Road and parking by the Turn-off to Dawin’s Bridge. (That’s the second turn to the right.) 

Anyone who wants the extra cardio is welcome to meet us there around 6:30 pm.

From there, we will ride 20-30 minutes up Ring Creek North FSR to the Pseudo Tsuga trail head. Then we have the option of continuing to climb another 5-10 minutes to ride Recycle and then Pseudo Tsuga, or skip Recycle and ride straight down Pseudo Tsuga.

Recycle is a blue (intermediate) cross-country trail.

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.

We will be riding easier trails in the beginning of August. I’ll keep you posted!

Jen

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