Snoqualmie Summit ride-UNICON

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Oh yah, there is great XC here. How do you like your muni XC?

If you like to earn your downhills there is one of my favorite rides just 15 minutes from North Bend on Tiger Mountain. It starts with a 3.5 mile long 1100 vertical foot climb on fire road. Then gives you a nice technical, rocky, rooty 1000 vertical foot switchback downhill on singletrack. Ohhh. Then it finishes on a nice singletrack trail that follows a contour line but still manages to sneak in about 100 feet of elevation change. Total ride is about 12 miles.

There are other great XC rides in the area. And not all of the rides are 12 miles long. We’re not on the plains here so most, but not all, muni rides involve some climbing. I’ll be posting trail descriptions for the muni fun rides shortly. I’d better get that done before the conventions start.

john_childs
MUin Fun Ride disorganizer

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I’ve been working in LA this week, and just saw Harpers description of our
wonderful ride. The downhill sections at Snoqualmie are wonderfully terrifying,
and there are just enough worshipful bicyclists to keep you foolhardy and to
make you stretch your stamina to the limits.

There is a 20 something mile loop up there around Mount Catherine that should
be excellent cross country. But I’ve never had the time to test it out.

The toughest part was figuring out how to answer my wife’s, question, “How was
the ride?” I was honest, “I lost my left nut, and my crank fell off, but
otherwise it was great!”

David Maxfield
Bainbridge Island, WA

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Hola Josue,

> can you send me the site for download the daiki and girls
> japanisse freestyle becose aeren genelind, and colin
> from minnesota wana see it

I don’t think I kept the link for that. I think it was on Hayashi’s Web site
in Japan. Does anyone out there in newsgroup/forums land have the URL for
that folder of Japanese freestyle videos? Those were awesome, and worth
talking about again as UNICON approaches.

Thank you,
John Foss, the Uni-Cyclone
jfoss@unicycling.com
www.unicycling.com <http://www.unicycling.com>

“This unicycle is made all from lightweight materials. But it uses a lot of
them.” – Cliff Cordy, describing the very heavy new prototype unicycle he
brought on the Downieville Downhill

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I kept a .mov file of a Japanese girl performing freestyle and just uploaded a copy to our gallery http://www.unicyclist.com/gallery/theunicycleuniversity
It’s on page six of the gallery. Let me know if this is one of the clips your looking for.

Bruce
yoopers at inwave.com

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john_childs <john_childs.7lk5m@timelimit.unicyclist.com> wrote:
> If you like to earn your downhills there is one of my favorite rides
> just 15 minutes from North Bend on Tiger Mountain. It starts with a 3.5
> mile long 1100 vertical foot climb on fire road. Then gives you a nice
> technical, rocky, rooty 1000 vertical foot switchback downhill on
> singletrack. Ohhh. Then it finishes on a nice singletrack trail that
> follows a contour line but still manages to sneak in about 100 feet of
> elevation change. Total ride is about 12 miles.

That sounds fun. Fire road for the up hill and then technical single track
with a
cool off contour hugger to finish. Just what the Dr ( Selwood) ordered.
12 miles is just about long enough.

Sarah

Unicon 11 ~ Washington USA.~ July 25 - Aug 2 2002
The world unicycle convention and championships.
http://www.nwcue.org

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john_childs <john_childs.7lk5m@timelimit.unicyclist.com> wrote:
> If you like to earn your downhills there is one of my favorite rides
> just 15 minutes from North Bend on Tiger Mountain. It starts with a 3.5
> mile long 1100 vertical foot climb on fire road. Then gives you a nice
> technical, rocky, rooty 1000 vertical foot switchback downhill on
> singletrack. Ohhh. Then it finishes on a nice singletrack trail that
> follows a contour line but still manages to sneak in about 100 feet of
> elevation change. Total ride is about 12 miles.

That sounds fun. Fire road for the up hill and then technical single track
with a
cool off contour hugger to finish. Just what the Dr ( Selwood) ordered.
12 miles is just about long enough.

Sarah

Unicon 11 ~ Washington USA.~ July 25 - Aug 2 2002
The world unicycle convention and championships.
http://www.nwcue.org