Los Robles
Trail
(From Moorpark
Road!!!)
Sunday
11-13-05
This Sunday the RCYers managed
a new feat--to split up into 2 groups even
before we started to pedal. Two-thirds of us arrived
for the Sunday morning RCY Los Robles Trail mountain bike ride at
Moorpark Road!!! The other one-third of us did not
read their assignment (oops....my old teacher habits surfacing), ride posting
carefully enough. Thus (I learned after the ride) Jamshyd, Joe, and Reuben
showed up at the parking lot of East Coast Bagel, while John, DavidR, Ali,
Matthew, Rod and I showed up at the south end of Moorpark Road. So after
counting the ballots, the majority wins 6-to-3 and so the official ride is
as was posted. And so here are some words and
pictures of that official RCY ride.
Starting at Moorpark Road you
don't get much of a chance to warm up before the climb up the switchbacks.
The sunny morning was rather cool and we all started with at least windbreakers,
but as the climb continued, the blood pumped faster, the sun warmed and so the
jackets came off.
Looking up the trail
towards the Switchbacks
At the top of the switchbacks
we regrouped and headed on towards the intersection near the Los Robles and
Rosewood Trails. Rather than going to The Bench, we took the left
fork and continued on the Los Robles Trail where we were met by the 1 STEEP
uphill and 2 steep downhills.
Ali and John walk
the last section of the super STEEP uphill....no one rode the entire hill
today.
We continued on towards the
end of the Los Robles Trail, enjoying the wonderful twists and turns of the
singletrack.
Rod enjoying the
beauty of the lush singletrack trail
A closeup of
Matthew: Happy to be back from his business travels in
Asia
After a little over 6 miles of
singletrack, we stopped just short of the Portrero Road end of the trail,
turning around to retrace our tracks.
With some photographic license
I offer some digitally altered, interpretive shots of the riders on the way
back....
A smiling John
approaching a turn
David pedaling
through
Ali focusing on the
trail
Rod lovin' the
ride
The Appleman
enjoying the trail
The group waves
encouragement to me as I climb to meet them near the intersection with the
Rosewood Trail
Arriving back at the cars with
12.5 miles of glorious singletrack on our odometers, 4 of us headed over to the
Side Street Cafe for some good food and conversation that ended a wonderful
Sunday of mountain biking.
Have a great
week!
Robco Baggins
P.S. According to
Jamshyd, the alternate RCY ride from East Coast Bagel did some exploring of
trails that headed into Hidden Valley and had almost as much fun as we did
Jin
spite of the fact that they don't read directions: HGFDCL.........A
