Forest roads and a long A** day

Finally another ride report! I hooked up with this dude Jason from ADV this morning and we were off to find some forest roads.. I had picked out quite a few of them on the map to hit, and at the end of the day we actually rode about 10% of them! Nonetheless, the ones we hit were perfect.. a little mix of everything.. some gravel, some really loose gravel, some hard pack dirt, some bad a** rocky stuff, and some super sloppy, puddle-ridden mud.. and these puddles, well, they were more like mini lakes.

Seems like no matter where you are, you've got to do a little slabbin' to get anywhere.. necessary evil I guess.. and, if I'm gonna slab, these slabs are some of the prettiest I've ridden.


Shortly after getting onto the gravel, we had the first, um, well...

awww, it looks like he's taking a nap...

Except when he awoke, he had a nasty rash!



All in all, though, it worked out ok.. nobody hurt, no bikes over the cliff.. and we kept riding.

We decided to take this little jaunt up to the summit of a mountain just for fun, and as it turned out, it was a very cool road with quite the reward at the end..

Another from the summit..

Here's Jason coming out of the muddy section.. the puddles started out small, but got bigger and bigger.. when I came across the first massive one I stopped and commented "uh, this one looks deep".. honestly, with no experience riding through water, I was pretty freaked out by the situation, but I mustered up the courage and kept riding.. it turned out to be a sweet road and the puddles were lots of fun!

Once the afternoon rolled around, I was practically falling asleep, so a pitstop for coffee in this little Bavarian Village was mandatory.. you know, Bavarian bikes.. get it?

I didn't keep track of mileage, but we rode for about 10 hours..


Another ride planned for Sunday and maybe more dirt riding next week, so stay tuned for more reports!