Ride Reports
10 | 07 | '26
With all the morning fog in Puget Sound this morning, I figured I wouldn’t get my views or photos so I just went for a good XC ride at the Tolt McDonald trails and thick foliage. The three hours turned into trail clearing of spiderwebs and the...
Submitted by tomvale on 10/8/26
10 | 05 | '26
Spent some time over in Chelan this weekend so I took the bike over to the Butte to get a morning run down the trail before working on irrigation plumbing on property here. The climb up was fine except for the weeds on the winter traverse still. You...
Submitted by tomvale on 10/5/26
10 | 03 | '26
Hello amazing moutain biking community,
I write this account with a heavy heart as I had an experience that I want to warn people about. I was riding today with my 13 yr old son and his 13 yr old friend for the first time at Port Gamble. Not fully...
Submitted by jpen on 10/4/26
10 | 02 | '26
When I bought my first Emtb, a 2022 Levo, three years ago, I took it to Green Mountain north of Verlot, to begin testing the battery life for miles and vertical. The double track is long and the vertical there was typical for me (>2500’)....
Submitted by tomvale on 10/3/26
09 | 27 | '26
It has been a little over three years since I’ve taken the bike up, and then across the Blue Mountain Ridge just north of Sultan (Spoiler, this ride is all double-track). Today, I wanted to remap the route since they decommissioned roads used pr...
Submitted by tomvale on 9/28/26
09 | 20 | '26
I arrived in Manson last night just in time to have dinner at ‘My Buddy’s Place’ and little did I know, they were just starting their Saturday night karaoke. I couldn’t pass up that opportunity!!!!
Over the past 4 years, I’ve wri...
Submitted by tomvale on 9/21/26
09 | 17 | '26
I hadn’t been up to Little Mountain Park in a while so I headed north into the early morning fog and started going around on the lower trails since the views were zero and Parks Department arborists were clearing trees and debris from the summit acce...
Submitted by tomvale on 9/17/26
09 | 11 | '26
This morning, I woke up early and couldn’t get back to sleep. So, with a little time to burn before the day of errands began, I grabbed the Levo and went to the Gulch for two laps. I went down Orion/Mukraker on the first lap and then Boyz/Lucky on th...
Submitted by tomvale on 9/11/26
09 | 09 | '26
This morning, I was over in Chelan to take care of some family business, and since it was a fairly clear, cool day, and not too much smoke, I decided to bring the bike over to the Chelan Butte to do one lap on the downhill trail. I climbed the trail...
Submitted by tomvale on 9/10/26
09 | 06 | '26
After getting a little less than a quarter of an inch of rain in the greater Snohomish area a couple days ago, I figured we’d have hero dirt at Lord Hill. I brought the Levo and went all over the park and also down to the river to stroll around...
Submitted by tomvale on 9/6/26
09 | 05 | '26
Last time I rode Alpine Baldy was back in October, last fall, so I needed to come back to see how the atmospheric rivers and any other wind storms treated the trail.
I parked at the power lines just past the target area / borrow pit...
Submitted by tomvale on 9/5/26
08 | 31 | '26
It has been a month since my last ride in Darrington. So I ventured back out to my happy place to get up to the summit and descend Hoot Owl and Skyline before getting lunch and heading home for errands.
Even with the recent rain, soils were...
Submitted by tomvale on 9/1/26
08 | 28 | '26
We rode to Monte Cristo on gravel bikes as part of a climb up a nearby peak. We left on the "alternate" route, per the recommendation by a previous poster in 2021. We disagreed with this recommendation, so wanted to provide a different perspective an...
Submitted by Okenk on 8/29/26
08 | 15 | '26
Needed a quick ride before a busy weekend started so I went over to Lord Hill with the mtb and got my flow and tech fixes satisfied. The soils were dry, but the roots were too, so traction was pretty good. I got a bit confident in that assessmen...
Submitted by tomvale on 8/15/26
08 | 09 | '26
Today, Chelan finally had a night where the winds recycled the smoke in the valley and sent it east. In the early morning calm, I grabbed my gear and took off for a ride down the Butte before the valley filled up with haze again. To minimize the...
Submitted by tomvale on 8/8/26
08 | 02 | '26
Today, Chelan and Manson were cloaked in a thick layer of smoke and floating ash covering parked cars. It was bad. Looking at the iqAir website, Winthrop and Twisp were north of the eastbound smoke from the Little Giant Fire near Lake Wenatchee. So I...
Submitted by tomvale on 8/3/26
07 | 29 | '26
Today, my goal was to get out to my happy place in Darrington and descend Out of the Blue and Jackpot and then get back to the real world and errands. I parked at the bottom of Skyline, climbed to the tower, and all the peaks and ridges were in th...
Submitted by tomvale on 7/29/26
07 | 26 | '26
Finally got my Levo out of the shop with new gears and chain and took it to the Gulch for a checkout and a good workout for me. I cleared a couple tree falls one on Rocket 88 and another on Boyz. The two trails are clear now but a chainsaw will be...
Submitted by tomvale on 7/26/26
07 | 24 | '26
My Levo drivetrain refurbishment wasn't done but it’s almost complete, so I took the gravel bike out the door this morning for a long ride down to the Burke Gilman and Sammamish River trails. After going through Woodinville I decided to challenge...
Submitted by tomvale on 7/25/26
07 | 15 | '26
Since my Levo is in the shop for gears, chain, and brake pads, I took the Enduro to Lord Hill for a quick morning ride before the heat really develops. The trails are obviously dry and some berms are gravelly but you will still have some fun. I onl...
Submitted by tomvale on 7/15/26