We rode in deep snow at Diamond Mill yesterday...
That was fun / crazy. Not sure how many miles we did but it was not a ton and mostly in 3"-1.5 feet of snow. Amazingly the traction was still good. Lost the trail int he deep snow and had to pull 2 bikes out of a steep hillside. Good fun.
On the way up there...
Looked like it was going to be clear and nice for the day until we got the bikes unloaded and...
Brought the Snow machine, with new rear tire and grip heaters.
Was not bad at the bottom, and hit some fun trails...
Then we headed up traill 66 (Plastic) and it went up and up and up into the deeper and deeper snow...
It's starting to get fun...
So we thought we would hit the steeper trails, seems reasonable :smirk:
I figured we were done about here...
but no...
Red says "bring it"
Me asking if we are having fun yet...
So I manage to pass everyone on the hill and start busting trail until I can't see trail any more. Now we start the hike and verify trail method...
Axle deep and still thumbs up. We have come down stuff were not sure we can go back up.
Does not look it in the pic but this is a steep down hill we are not going to be able to come back up EZ so were kinda committed at this point...
We check Reds GPS and realize we are 400 feet from the road but in white out conditions we can't see the trail so Red hikes down to the road to verify while we yard to bikes up the hill that have gone the wrong way down a steep section.
This guys says we are at Code Red :smirk:
There are no more pix from this point on as we needed to rob my camera batteries for the GPS to find a way home. We slip and slide around and manage to get back to the truck about 3:30 and still snowing pretty hard.
Fun day, thanks dudes.
That was fun / crazy. Not sure how many miles we did but it was not a ton and mostly in 3"-1.5 feet of snow. Amazingly the traction was still good. Lost the trail int he deep snow and had to pull 2 bikes out of a steep hillside. Good fun.
On the way up there...
Looked like it was going to be clear and nice for the day until we got the bikes unloaded and...
Brought the Snow machine, with new rear tire and grip heaters.
Was not bad at the bottom, and hit some fun trails...
Then we headed up traill 66 (Plastic) and it went up and up and up into the deeper and deeper snow...
It's starting to get fun...
So we thought we would hit the steeper trails, seems reasonable :smirk:
I figured we were done about here...
but no...
Red says "bring it"
Me asking if we are having fun yet...
So I manage to pass everyone on the hill and start busting trail until I can't see trail any more. Now we start the hike and verify trail method...
Axle deep and still thumbs up. We have come down stuff were not sure we can go back up.
Does not look it in the pic but this is a steep down hill we are not going to be able to come back up EZ so were kinda committed at this point...
We check Reds GPS and realize we are 400 feet from the road but in white out conditions we can't see the trail so Red hikes down to the road to verify while we yard to bikes up the hill that have gone the wrong way down a steep section.
This guys says we are at Code Red :smirk:
There are no more pix from this point on as we needed to rob my camera batteries for the GPS to find a way home. We slip and slide around and manage to get back to the truck about 3:30 and still snowing pretty hard.
Fun day, thanks dudes.
