Cool story, bro.
It is also the 9th anniversary of her doing the Wilderness 101. 95* and 90% humidity. 10500ft of elevation. That’s a full day.
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yeah, so anyone who has done a 10k foot pedal knows that 4,400ft while not insignificant is also not that big a day.
But when they have a bilateral mastectomy and have 5 vertebrae fused in the meantime, it is still a big enough day, especially when you want to race down the techy trails.
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You should know better than to be a dick about it. It’s not you doing the race and not you deciding if it’s a big day.
Ive done a 10k pedal. I regularly do 10k of descent and 30-40 mi bike park days. 20 mi and 4400 ft is still a big day for me that id need to work my way up to be able to perform well for. This is why i understand why franks wife went for the shorter race (i opted for it too, not knowing the trails and not wanting to get in over my head).
Everyone has their own goal post and it’s not up to you to decide what’s hard for someone else.
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you right.
sorry everyone.
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I mean, it depends on the pedal doesn’t it. I’ll take a nicely graded west coast fire road uphill over my local grind any day. Less than 2k feels like 4k on the road (not that I remember what that’s like lol). And for downhill, fast flow trail ft vs low speed maneuvering, no contest.
Solid choice as Raging River is such a peculiar trail system
The locals are “boiled frogs” used to ~20mi and ~5000ft being the default base for a loop, because of the setup where you climb to get in, descend the blackest trails into a deeper inaccessible hole on the backside, then climb and descend bluer trails to get back out.
In another decade or two all the plans will hopefully work out for it to all be connected to Tiger Mountain from the backside and be more cohesive
lol, lmao
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does this mean a nice 3% railroad grade or a 15-25% grade chunky jeep road that you push your bike up?
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I’ve only experienced the latter in SoCal 
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Just generalizing. In my experience good trail systems have good access roads. SoCal doesn’t have good trail systems so we can rule that out right off the bat. 
15-25 push yr bike jeep track is what I’m working with at home and my Santa Cruz friend complained mightily about it the couple of times he has ridden it.
you can just say the Jan Heine is Wrong sticker guy
most of CO is just like shitty old hiking systems, so not great access roads.
the newer trail areas all have pretty nicely graded climbing trails, but i think CO was way too late to the game on building actual mtbing trails so its been slow progress over the last decade that i’ve lived here.
i’d rather climb on singletrack than access roads generally. i like some difficulty in my climb to take my mind off things. but its hard to hit the sweet spot of climbing tech - it needs to be intermittent enough or at the right grade that riders can rest in between features and intermediate riders arent just walking the whole thing or getting in the way.
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I’ve found this very much to be not true, lots of great trails and trail systems here, much better than I initially thought
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You’ll have to show me. I only rode like two trail systems over there.
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I’ve only been on the trails off Dirt Mulholland in the SM Mtns, but those were pretty fun. Apparently Big Bear is the place to go. Mammoth too but that’s not exactly SoCal.
Mountain High is developing a trail system and opened up just this year, not too much to offer yet but stay tuned.
Damn Hayes dominion are good. Damn my Fox 36 feels like doodoo compared to my lyrik. Damn cascade link makes my old bike a new bike and goes so well with coil. Damn.
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Brakes good. Fork bad. Coil with new link good. mtn beiks the combinations are endless
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The pedals are also cursed
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