Yesterday we drove up to Truckee to ride Emigrant Trail with SadieKate, who was celebrating her "35th" birthday. Yellow joined us - her last California ride. Bubba, Thom and Robblog rounded out the group.



What a great day and a nice trail! It's about 11 miles long, ridden as an out and back - a great trail for strong beginners with enough technical bits to keep more advanced riders happy. There are places where you can choose to catch air or not and a creek crossing. Sorry Sarah - you were blurry in the photo. The trail crosses several ridges. None of the climbs/descents were super steep. And it is all single track! Not something we have much of around the Bay Area.The trail ends at Stampede Reservoir. A lovely place for a bite to eat.





I guess I have to get me a pair of these.

Nobody crashed and the local bike store was having a great sale. Too bad it's just so dang far away!

V.