July 3rd - Forbidden Area, Thursday night ride.

Massively out of date on keeping the Blog up to date! Going to try and catch things up over this week.

July 3rd we were invited along on a Thursday night ride. The only catch is that we were actually invited along by two different groups. How good is your riding community when you have regular after work rides almost every night and with great people every time.

Amber and I were enamored with the trails up near Forbidden Area so we took Gerry up on his kind offer of a group ride followed by home brew beer and snacks at the base. Unfortunately I forgot to grab the camera in the excitement of getting the shuttle vehicles loaded so no pictures.

The riding, as usual for the area, was phenomenal. We came down Jake the Snake to Two Sheiks. I don't remember the trail sections past that, but the riding was varied and fun and one particular obstacle ("the drop of doom") will remain ingrained on my psyche for years to come if I can't get back to the area to ride it. It was a clean steep granite slab that had a slight lip part way down the slab so that as you approached it all you could see was the edge of a cliff. Beyond the lip was a steep roller with a good exit before a tight turn to finish the sequence. Unfortunately neither Amber or I would commit to try it and we both wimped out and will have to ponder that for a while to come.

We enjoyed awesome company and some home brews after and decided to join Gerry and Paul for another ride in a couple of days - Comfortably Numb at whistler.