May 8, 2010

Mingus Downhilling

I've been wanting to ride Mingus Mt. (between Prescott Valley, Jerome, and Cottonwood) for a while now, and thanks to the invitation Helimech and others I jumped on the opportunity.

Some how we packed ten bikes and ten riders into the truck and rolled just about everything up there. Helimech did a great job of linking up several different runs together so shuttle progressed easily. Being my first time up there, it was just a blur of fun. From what I recall, we did 28th street, 110 to 533, Madness, and finished up with Maverick.

110 and 533 had a couple short uphill sections, but was probably my favorite runs. Madness was super steep and sketchy, due to the loose rock (like riding on marbles). Then Maverick was a super long run that took us from the hang glider launch had into the town of Cottonwood, and it had elements of all the the trails we road earlier.

Fun stuff, and it was nice to be in the trees again.

Here is a vid fo the day:



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We wrapped the day with riding some 'skinnies' and here is a short video of that:



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