Mountain biking in Santa Cruz, California

in #mountainbiking7 years ago (edited)

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Hello all, here is my mtb ride from this morning, 15.7 miles and 2,400 ft of climbing. The bike is a 2010 Santa Cruz Blur LTc, 160 Fox fork & fox 5" shock. (An old school 26'er)
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GPS data from a Garmin Vivoactive HR, Wahoo fitness HRM and uploaded to Strava.
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The road to Soquel Demonstration Forest is on Highland way which is running along a ridge between Santa Clara county and Santa Cruz. I stopped on the way there to snap this shot looking towards Santa Cruz, you can see the blue Pacific Ocean just under the horizon.
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I was waiting for a friend that was running a few minutes late and snapped a few pre ride shots. The color of my bike sure complements the surroundings!
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There is a creek running along Highland way and right next to the parking area. It was a cold morning in the upper 40's and there is a lot of nice green moss growing on the surrounding trees and rocks. The sun made it's way through gaps in the dense forest illuminating certain areas.
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Shot a few seconds of video for a Gif at the creek

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Taking a break at the bottom after a 3.5 mile downhill on the flow trail. This is the fireroad you take up back to the parking lot or for another DH run.
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This park is really nice a quite, even when there are a lot of cars in the parking lot, you do not run into too many people. There are large redwood trees everywhere, ferns and just about everything is green. Nice cool fresh air off of the coast is a plus.
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Hope you all had a great/beautiful Sunday!

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Another nice riding route with a break by the stream too. nice.

Hello @ace108, it's been either rainy or cold over the last few months, so no beautifulsundays on this blog. But yesterday gave us some nice weather! Thanks for stopping by!

You're welcome

Looks like a great place to ride and the stream gif is a fun little addition.

It's one of the nicest places to ride in Santa Cruz. It's good to be in good shape to ride here, something I need to work on.

You must have had a great time. I can’t imagine better places in biking that downhill in the forest. And you had a beatiful weather as well. Here in NY we had a rainy day today.

Hmm, take a trip south, it's probably warmer.

beautiful scenery and cool bikes. it is very pleasant to have fun, especially if done in the wild. the route taken is also quite challenging, we in Indonesia also often do it, here also there are many bike clubs that do sports bikes nature. hopefully can visit there one day.

One of my co workers is from Indonesia and cycles everytime he goes back there. You will like the bay area, CA

hopefully one day I can visit there, hope your day is always fun, enjoy biking, cool

Looks like it was a great time. What an awesome view in the second photo too!

Thanks for visiting the blog, glad you enjoyed the photos

I will be cycling in your town come July. Looking forward to it.

You will like cycling in northern california, both road or mtb.

I am a MTB rider. I did some riding last year around SFO, to Mt Tam and and also around Daly city. Loved it.

i wish i had enough time to get out there, up here in Washington is PRIME mountain biking territory!

Yeah, Oregon has some good biking too

you must had a great time :)

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