Okay so Mike D and I decided to plan out a Tour de Fraser Valley , by mountain biking on a different mountain or a atleast a different set of trails each weekend as Mike and other buddies of mine have not expereienced riding on many of the other mountains in our area. So it was planned, this Saturday, the 11th of October at 10 am we were to meet at the Woodlot in Maple Ridge, stop number one on the Tour. The innaugural ride was to consist of myself, Mike D and Derek H (from the ol work place), and Jason C (biking buddy who had not been out riding in forever), and Jordan K and Cory S (two newbies stoked to go check out some new trails).
Come Saturday morning it was only Jason, Jordan and I at the Woodlot parking lot. As they say, "you snooze, you lose", and the three of us started of the tour on an absolutely perfect riding day. The weather had been dry for a few days and the trail conditions were mint, the roots and logs were dry and there was traction to spare.
We trekked up the logging road to the power lines and armoured up for the descent down Crazy Carpenter, We made out way down the log rides and bridges back down to the main road again and hiked back up a little ways and dropped into Tsuga which is a sweet flowing trail with a couple big rock faces and some beautiful bridgework over some formerly boggy sections. We linked up Tsuga with Snakes 'n Ladders. At one point Jason was chasing me down as we trained a long elevated ladder bridge and log ride section. After Snakes 'n Ladders we hiked back up the road a little more to finish off the ride with Heckle Jeckle. Again the wood was perfectly dry and I was able to ride out the elevated platform to log ride section with is normally quite treacherous with a minimal amount of moisture. We cruised along the huge sweeping berms on our way back to the lower logging road. We cut in to Shotgun halfway and boogied back to the parking lot. Wow, a lot of trails packed into just a few hours, cant wait for part 2 of the Tour.
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