Tahoe Mountain Biking - June 2009

Chris put together this great set of photos from our mountain biking trip in June 2009. Most of the photos were from two rides we did in North Lake Tahoe. One ride was near Northstar / Truckee area, the other was on the Tahoe Rim Trail and various other trails near Tahoe City. We had a great time despite a couple of early crashes. I will have a scar on my shin to remind me of this trip for the rest of my life. Probably should have gotten a couple of stitches, or at least a couple of butterfly stitches. After my two crashes I lowered the air pressure in my front tire as it kept washing out in the loamy decomposed granite on some of the trails. The weather was perfect and it was a nice little mini vacation for me. We enjoyed many fine cocktails, excellent lasagna prepared by Matt and a nice bottle of Malbec!

Granite Bay MTB

I took Lex out to Granite Bay at Folsom Lake on Sunday afternoon for a little mountain biking. I've never been on the trails out there but had heard they were pretty mellow. As we arrived we were amazed at how low the lake was.



We were able to jam around the huge parking lot which is normally full of huge monster trucks and boat trailers. Now if you want to launch a boat you have to drive waaaay down to the shoreline past all the boat ramps and do a beach launch. The speed limit is 5mph on the lake so there are pretty much only fishermen out there now. Anyways we had fun riding up and down the boat ramps, jumping off some docks, and riding along the bottom of the lake which is usually 20-30' underwater.

Lex had to rip through a few puddles of course!



I didn't get any pictures on the singletrack, but Lex did great. He even chased after some guy who rode past us and said hello. He only had to get off and walk a couple of sections. Looking forward to going out there again soon.