OMG! This was the absolute COOLEST muni ride EVER! Me and my riding buddy Jim started on “CHOLLA” trail, which is in Aliso Woods above Laguna Beach, CA. We had a 7:30 am start, (too early for these old muscles and bones!) and after a long, steady accent we FINALLY arrived at “Top Of The World”! Probably close to a 1,750 elevation gain.
Lots of serious, hardcore mtb’ers along the way and almost without exception, they were ALL blown away by these two “insane” guys on Unicycles!
Once at the top, after some rock-hopping, we spotted a Red Diamond back Rattler, perfectly happy all coiled up just next to the shuttle entrance! This time, with Jim manning the video cam, (see video!!!) I carefully (well maybe not carefully enough!) proceeded to lure him out with a branch, then dragging him out in the open by his tail, I realized that the branch was too flimsy to lift him up, so I…well, you’ll just have to watch the video…it’s towards the middle section. The whole thing still seems so surreal!
The ride back was DH for the most part, and fairly technical, and STEEP in some sections, so my new Maguras really helped in controlling the DH speed. I’m really lovin’ this place as there are so many different trails spanning for seemingly endless miles, it would easily take a DECADE to ride them all! Next time we’re going to try the “Stair-Stepper” trail; supposedly one of the most technical of them all!
The opening music on the vid was from a cd provided by Jim; it’s by a group called “System of a Downs”, and the song, “Holy Mountains”, seemed wholly fitting and appropriate! It’s pretty hardcore. The music is actually “timed” prefectly for certain actions in the video…purely by chance! In the video, there aren’t any earth-shattering muni-feats, but lots of variety and fun, fun, FUN! At least for us…Hope you N-joy!
PS: I will upload a higher res version later today.
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