We returned to attempt to complete the Technical trails: Dare a Sarah, Taranchula, Snake Eyes, and Scorpion. There are lots of technical features and sections that split off in two directions, with trail markers pointing the way to the "Most Difficult" and the "Least Difficult" or bypass sections.
if you're lower intermediate rider, I highly recommend you bypass the "Most Difficult" sections. There are plenty of little obstacles and challenges on the main trails.
If you're an intermediate rider and want to hit the "Most Difficult" sections, I highly recommend you stop and walk the obstacles rather than ride in, sight unseen. Not doing so could be disasterous. Unless, I'm facing a small drop or little popup obstacle, I usually stop and find a line that I feel most comfortable with. I'm always willing to challenge my skiils, but know enough to see when things are well beyond my skill level. There is no shame in doing some hike-a-bike, or turning around an hitting the bypass. I'd rather live to ride the next weekend than recieve and injury, that could lay me up for weeks, or even end a season.
All that being said, these are some fun little trail loops, as challenging, if not more so, than the Diablo Trails further north and east.
Taranchula is a great little out and back trail with several minor obstacles and a large, steep, granite slab at ablout the halfway mark. Is fun going either direction.
Snake Eyes is a great trail with several moderate obstacles. It is the northmost trail that forms the top of the loops. Scorpion's north section is also the bottom of Snake Eyes, if you ride Snake Eyes as a loop rather than an out and back.
Scorpion itself consists of two loops. The big loop contains the little loop on the west side. Yoy can ride each as a seperate loop or ride the whole thing as one big loop with a bypasss inside the west side of the big loop. We rode Scorpion as two seperate loops.
The "Liitle Scorpion" loop has the most challenges and those challenges often don't have a bypass. So, Be cuatious and take your time if you aren't familiar with the trail.
By the time we hit "Little Scorpion" we were pretty tired and didn't have the juice to session the obstacles like we would have wanted. We decided to go back a third time and just ride "Little Scorpion" loop to better do it justice.
Therefore I only included some highlights from our trek around "Little Scorpion Loop"
So, stay tuned as we will make a third video in this series, of just "Little Scorpion Loop".
2 окт 2024
