A nice quick 19 mile ride up to the Palisades consisting of 11 miles of fire roads up the mountains, and another couple of miles on the ridge line with a 6 mile single track descent. Parts of the trail were unridable, at least by us, because of the grade and the rocks, or downed trees. Some expected the ride to take about 3.5 hours, but it ended up at 5 hours.
The long slog up
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This why the area is called the palisades. Lots of rock piles and open rock slashes.
Really nice views of the valleys below
And the single track starts.... immediately with rocky technical climbing at 8000 feet.
A mile and half of this
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Leading to some fun descending.
The trail had been cleared about 2 weeks ago, but you wouldn't have known it for all the downed trees we encountered.
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