Little ole Arcata, CA is home to CSU Humboldt and some mountain biking in Arcata Community Forest. Prior to European settlement, Arcata’s forestlands were used for hunting, fishing, and other uses by nearby Wiyot Native American settlements. Wiyot villages were settled adjacent to Arcata’s forest and throughout the vicinity of Humboldt Bay. Then, when Europeans …
Today’s ride just outside Big Flat, CA was remote and beautiful, but pretty toasty. We road a mostly gravel loop through forest roads and then up Corral Bottom from the Hyampon Side. We road mountain bikes for this because we had no idea what the condition of the gravel roads would be. The temps have …
Many many years ago when we raced mountain bikes, Derek and did the La Grange Classic race in Weaverville, CA and loved it. We didn’t race this time, but we did ride the course the other day. Big climbs, big views, some hike a bike across a stream, fun swoopy downhills… awesome route. This is …
Weaver Basin has over 70 miles of trails and we incorporated some new to us ones this ride. The new to us McKenzie Gulch Loop might be my new favorite little add on at only 3 miles. It has a decent climb and then some fast fun switchbacks and berms. I’ve never seen anyone else …
It’s slowly getting hotter but we got an early-ish start one morning and went to Whiskeytown Lake to ride the trails. These trails don’t seem to get as much use as those closer to Redding so we were a little worried. The drive around Whiskeytown Lake to the Bandy Creek Beach area is scenic and …
The terrain along the Trinity River in Northern California is very hilly. Very. There is room for a river, a road, a couple houses and then the canyon walls rising steeply. We cheated and drove a few miles to get further up the winding Corral Bottom Road for a ride. This ride was mostly paved, …
Derek and I are in this area all summer so I won’t be posting about every ride we do, but maybe all the new ones we check out. Last time we rode Weaverville trails we had to stay on the lower slopes because the mountains at higher elevation had snow! This time everything was dry …
Over 30 miles of dirt single-track wind through the hills between Swasey Drive and Muletown Road on the outskirts of Redding. This area offers several trails of varying character and difficulty for cyclists and hikers, from purpose built flow trails to long climbing x-country trails. Some trails follow historic mining ditches while others climb steadily …
On the eastern edge of Redding, close to Whiskeytown Lake, we rode a fantastic loop I’ll call French Fry Loop. The mountain biking in this area is pretty climby with some lovely views of Lassen and a section of the Sacramento River. Our mountain bike loop started up by the trailhead for Trail 58 off …
Derek and I did a mixed surface ride (road and dirt/gravel) out by Trinity Lake. This lake is one of the largest reservoirs in California with a capacity of 2,447,650 acre feet and 145 miles of shoreline. The Alpine scenery surrounding the lake makes up the Trinity Alps with dramatic, rugged landscape of chiseled granite peaks, glacially …