Yesterday I went mountain biking in the San Gabriel Mountains. I road the Brown Mountain Trail (a dirt fire road) near JPL. I haven't been mountain biking lately and I really would like to get back into it. I have done this trail before. I parked in the parking lot above JPL (Secco Rd?) and started my ride crossing a closed fire road gate. The ride is about 3.5 miles from the parking lot. I originally tried another trail (to the right of Brown Mt.) but the bridge had collapsed and they closed the trail. Brown Mountain is a steady incline for about 3 miles. This is an excellent work out, which I am in need of for training for Mt. Shasta this June. Anyhoo, I will try to ride a little farther each time. The climb kicked my butt but the ride down (all down hill basically) was awesome.
Check out my video! You can also see the path I took in Google maps or download the KML file to your Google Earth.
Riding stats:
Distance: 8 miles RT
Time: 50 minutes up 10 minutes down
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Yeee Hah! Pretty neat ride - loved the video (I'm assuming you didn't go over the edge!!)
The gps map thing is pretty cool, too.
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