Our third annual summer road trip! As per usual the foundation of the trip was destination mountain biking. This year we decided to check out the mountain bike scene in northern California. Hitting several of the classic areas including the Lost Sierra, Downieville, and Lake Tahoe. Non biking highlights included exploring the rocky beaches and coves of northern California, Red Wood National Forest and Emerald Bay in Tahoe. We also made it up to the Rogue Valley of Ashland, OR to visit friends and spend several days biking the unbelievable trail network of Mt. Ashland.
Kristin and I by the end of the trip biked over 400 miles of world class singletrack. Downhill ! was defiantly the name of the game, as rides averaged over 5k descent. We totaled just shy of 100,000’ of vertical descent for the trip. I published route descriptions for several of our favorite rides on Trailforks. Links to the routes can be found at the end of the post… The Cant Miss rides if ever in the area!
Our traveling boys were rock stars on this trip! They get easier every year! Its fun watching their interests change each year on these trips….Soon family MTB rides :)
Declan guiding me down the top of Mt Hough - Quincy, CA
Beach Bums - College Cove, CA
Declan taking the steep route to the Beach - Trinidad, CA
Ladies return from Spooner to Stateline - South Lake Tahoe, CA
Sandy Sunset - Sand Mtn, NV
There she is…Our Rock
That Hair - North Yuba River, CA
Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride - Todd
Ocean Feelings - College Cove, CA
Classics - Downieville, CA
Giants - Red Wood National Forest, CA
Releasing some Banana Slugs - Ashland, OR
Exploring Oceanside Caves - Trinidad, CA
Goblin Valley, UT
South Lake Tahoe - Todd
Deadend Cave - Trinidad, CA
Framed - Downieville, CA
Camp Fire - Lake Tahoe, CA
Sand Dune Body Surf - Sand Mtn, NV
Closing Down the Beach at Sunset
New and Old - Morgan Summit, CA
Lizard Hunting - NV
Starfish Stache - Crescent CIty, CA
Emerald Bay, CA
Fallen Giant - Red Wood National Forest, CA
Racing incoming High Tide - Trinidad, CA
Slime Mold - Liam’s Finger Mark
North Yuba River, CA
Critter Seacrching
Movie Night - Indian Valley Outpost, CA
This cute campground had a movie night on saturdays. Boys hung out while the ladies finished an epic Downieville ride,,, in the dark and the fellas cooked dinner waiting patiently for their return
Getting Her Downieville on - Libby
Fiddler Crab
Battery Point Lighthouse - Crescent City, CA
Scramblers
Starfishman - Crescent City, CA
Sand Dunes - NV
Waterfalls - Downieville, CA
Waters Edge - Crescent City, CA
The Boys
Interactive Maps of Featured Rides within Listed Zones:
Route highlighted in yellow
Click on ride title to open Trailforks App for further details
including options to save the route to your phone to help navigate