Riding and Races in the Seattle Area?

[Drtgirl]

Most of the trails in the Seattle area are relatively flat. If you want to work on technical skills you can check out Tapeworm (aka DNA, Parasite, etc.) in Renton, Black Diamond, S. Seatac near the airport or Soaring Eagle in Sammamish.

If you want to climb the closest trail system would be Tiger Mountain. There are plenty of fire roads to climb and some nice singletrack. This trail just opened up for the summer and gets VERY crowded (ie-no parking available) after work and on weekends. I'd recommend an early am ride.

Capitol forest down in Olympia is also really nice.

Eden's right about the snow Last winter's snowfall was really heavy and a lot of the trails are still covered. My hubby and I explored some trails off hwy 18 last weekend and we ran into over 3' of snow on the shady side of the mountain

[Drtgirl]

Eden's right about the snow Last winter's snowfall was really heavy and a lot of the trails are still covered. My hubby and I explored some trails off hwy 18 last weekend and we ran into over 3' of snow on the shady side of the mountain

Yeah....so I tried to ride Tiger tonight. Snow about 100m in from the trailhead. We turned around and literally got pummeled by hail. Riding down a fire road at nearly 30mph is not fun with you add in the ice pellets!

[dirtygirl1]

Thanks Girls,

I also tried Tiger and ran into snow. It wasn't too bad but I am originally from canada

Black Diamond is providing loads of fun for me right now...

Irulan --> are you going to Round and Round? I raced it Solo last year and plan to go again. what a great race. It was my first 24 hour Solo and I loved every minute of it :-)

I am hopeing Tiger will be cleared this weekend - will let you know!

[dirtygirl1]

I was out to Tiger both Saturday and Sunday ... no snow left on Tiger!

Saturday was amazing ... Sunday it hailed, snowed and rained ... but was a fun ride.