DigDug 0 Posted March 23, 2008 Well, we had a great meeting with congressman Hunter and decided that since we had our bikes with us, we'd better put them to use!!! A group of us met for some Mexican then split with some of us heading up to Corral Canyon. The rangers were at the Kernan Cycle trail road crossing, checking spark arrestors and registrations on bikes as we headed up. There was a guy behind me that got turned around (presumable for an MX bike without a spark arrestor). A quick look at our stock pipes and we were on our way. Once at Four Corners we split up into "hardway" and "easyway" groups. The "hardway" group consisted of KTMRad, Mickey, and myself. Here's a few shots from an AWESOME afternoon of riding! At the staging area: Mickey led and we figured we'd warm up on a few easy trails. We rode Corral (trail #2) to the Corral Canyon campground, then Bobcat (trail #6) up to the Bobcat Meadow campground. From there, none of us had ridden Greenhorn (trail #4) so we decided to check it out. SWEET TRAIL!!! One of the few true single-tracks up there. Here Mickey leads us down Greenhorn: KTMRad seems to like it: Great trail!!! I'm going to ride it quite a bit more in the future I think!! Then we hit the southern half of Wrangler (trail #1). The one major obstacle on Wrangler: From the top, we took a left onto Bronco Peak (trail #3) Here's a few shots going down the lovely rocks: Somehow, KTMRad took a left when we took a right. He snuck out of the steep, rock downhill. Here, Mickey shows us his "Endo" skills (not on purpose): This is how he "landed" it: More loose, rocky downhills: The boulder field at the bottom: We met back up with KTMRad, took a short break, then decided to make a quick run up to the lookout tower via the Spur Meadow Cycle Trail. We rode it at a pretty good clip, and had a BLAST!!! At the top of the trail: A few shots from the top of the hill: We saw that Norm was up in the tower and climbed up to say hi and get a few pictures: Here's Norm, KTMRad, and Mickey: For those of you who haven't met him, Norm is the fire watch. He's been doing that job for decades and seems to really love to get visitors. He'll invite you in, ask you if you'd like to have a seat and share stories all afternoon long. Looking back down to the Four Corners staging area: Mickey crawling down the tower: From there, back to Four Corners to load up and head out. A nice short, but action packed afternoon of riding. It was fun to keep up a good pace and cover some fun trails on such a wonderful afternoon!! Thanks KTMRad for tagging along!!! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Brett 0 Posted March 23, 2008 All this while I was working !?! What a beautiful looking day! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
sandiegoland 0 Posted March 23, 2008 The "easyway" group (Gery XT-225, Luke, & sandiegoland) took the asphalt jumps up to the peak, then headed down Spur Meadow Cycle Trail (good thing we didn't "meet" the "hardway" group coming up!) At the bottom we picked up the easy trails from the campground back to 4-Corners. Well, almost the easy trails. I promised Luke no rock crawling, so we had to double back on one of the off-shoot trails... if we had come down this way the other direction we might've ended up a Suzuki cupcake with Yamaha frosting!! Luke looked pretty happy that we picked some good learning trails... From there I introduced Gery XT-225 to Kernan Cycle trail, and Luke bypassed and met us at the bottom. Gery stopped for a second on the way down and showed me his plan to replace the kickstand if it ever falls off! Man that little 225 can keep up on the road! Yamaha knows how to make a 6-speed dual-sport!! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gery XT-225 0 Posted March 23, 2008 Coral_Canyon_Tracks.txt It really made a big differents seeing our San Diego Adventure Riders participating and supporting to any Off-Road Coalition meeting. Once again, we showed to our Congressman Duncan Hunter our best supports. Great agenda... A lunch and ride to Coral Canyon OHV follows after the meeting. At first, I was really hessitate to join the ride after seeing massive enduro bikes and SDAR dressed like a Pro-Racers on the parking lot. Until Sandiegoland approaches me and ask me to join and promisses that novice riders like me are also welcome to ride with them. For now... all I can say is we all had a BLAST at the Coral Canyon single track trails. After all, not too bad for a novice riders for only scratching my left front fender on that technical high wall downhill ruts. We also had fun along Hwy 94 heading back to San Diego. Thanks so much for letting us to tag along. Ride safe, Gery Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
roostingu 0 Posted March 23, 2008 Wow, that sure looks like a good time. I can't wait to ride in that area. Great ride report and thanks for the pictures. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gery XT-225 0 Posted March 24, 2008 Coral_Canyon_Tracks.txt It really made a big differents seeing our San Diego Adventure Riders participating and supporting to any Off-Road Coalition meeting. Once again, we showed to our Congressman Duncan Hunter our best supports. Great agenda... A lunch and ride to Coral Canyon OHV follows after the meeting. At first, I was really hessitate to join the ride after seeing massive enduro bikes and SDAR dressed like a Pro-Racers on the parking lot. Until Sandiegoland approaches me and ask me to join and promisses that novice riders like me are also welcome to ride with them. For now... all I can say is we all had a BLAST at the Coral Canyon single track trails. After all, not too bad for a novice riders for only scratching my left front fender on that technical high wall downhill ruts. We also had fun along Hwy 94 heading back to San Diego. Thanks so much for letting us to tag along. Ride safe, Gery Please enjoy more photo stories below... Congressman Duncan Hunter supporting the off-road community... Great turn-out... San Diego Adventure Riders giving best possible support to off-road coalition meeting... SDAR socializing at the parking lot after the meeting... We decided to have lunch and ride to Coral Canyon OHV after the meeting... Spark Arrester Required Trail Map... Getting ready... DigDug and his KTM... Craig and his DRZ400 Randy and his KTM Luke and his DRZ650 Los Pinos Road Tower You see my underbone XT225 with her 2 big sisters Spur Meadow trail Luke in action... Technical drop... Craig in action... Craig showing how to turn around bike on tight trails Craig & Luke in action... Trail ruts... San Diego Adventure Riders trail Craig & Luke recovering... Luke showing us an easy way to pump tires using his electric air pump Craig showing how to be in shape by using his manual air pump Ride safe, Gery Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
