I had a nice time up at Tahoe this weekend meeting up with the Norcamba folks (http://www.norcamba.org) for some trail work on the Tahoe Rim Trail and then a couple of rides on Saturday and Sunday. The trailwork on Saturday turned out not to be the excruciating work I thought it was going to be - it was actually fun even though I got sunburned a bit. After working on the TRT a bunch of riders met up for a super secret locals-only ride near Brockway summit. It was a bit of an uphill on really thin single track to a ridge and then powdery-dusty-switchbacky descent down to a meadow and then on out to a road. It was great because we didn’t see anyone else on this ride - the trail was completely crowdless.

Saturday night we had a get-together at Northstar for pizza and beer. The Norcamba organizers sponsored a raffle for some fancy bike stuff and I actually won a new suspension fork from Fox Forks! Fancy dancy! Everyone else got lots of great swag too. I was pretty tired from the days working and riding so I hit the sack hard on Saturday evening.

Yesterday we rode an epic ride starting from Tahoe City and going north up into the hills on the Western States and Tahoe Rim Trails. There was major amounts of climbing and descension and it was probably some of the rockiest-nastiest stuff I’ve ever been on. I got beat around on a lot of the trail but I think just riding yesterday has improved my confidence on technical singletrack 100 fold.

Anyway, it was great time overall!

This week I’ll be doing some trail running and mountain biking in preparation for this weekend’s trip to the Bay Area. The SVS trail run and mountain biking at Skeggs/Soquel beckon!

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