13 of us met at the Mound Saturday afternoon and had a nice little 20 mile jaunt around the Lost Valley trail. The large number was probably from the “cabin fever” effect brought on by not being able to ride off-road for awhile due to lack of cooperation from Mother Nature.
Yes, believe it or not, GORC does have one. Despite all the recent talk about buttery smooth trails, and singlespeeds, there are some club members who like to ride on, off, and over things rather than having a leg fall off trying to keep within radio range of the likes of 3-Bowl, the Crusher, and Terbo.
Last Saturday was a big day for GORC. The near total reroute of the Dogwood Trail at Greensfelder was completed. The trail, which was formerly a muddy, sodden mess with straight-up climbs is now beautiful, twisty, flowing, and most importantly, sustainable singletrack. Terbo and Bryan, and everyone else involved did a great job with the new design.
Tuesday in Salida, GORC takes an easy day. This means we go to Alpine Tunnel, which is about three miles from the highest place you can park, along steady uphill rail-to-trail.
So it decides to rain on us after we arrived in Salida on Saturday. We had some keg and waited for the sun to reappear. As soon as it did we put together a haphazard ride out the door onto some local fireroads to Boss Lake.
Here’s the design for the GORC socks. All proceeds go back into the club for supporting your local trails. Ordering details will be on the website. Buy a pair of these 100% wool socks for yourself, and one for grandma, she’ll love them.
OK, that’s no way to put it. God loves castlewood. He just has to let mother nature lay the smack down every now and then or there would be great unrest upstairs.
The GORC Posse found it’s way to Jeff City Saturday for the Midwest SingleSpeed Championships. As usual we made our indelible mark on this event.
We are a bunch of friends from the mountains of far Northeastern Tennessee. We are the riding hillbillies. Only two teams have come to wage war on Big Bear down from the nine we brought in 2001 to Snowshoe. Team number one is “Dr Skips Medicine Show”.
Wednesday, Fresh legs. The-Pimp, 3-Bowl, and the Great Randini fly in. We take all of a few hours to acclimate, drink some of the great beer (nice Stout), and kit-up for the 35-mile epic of Monarch Crest to Rainbow trail.