Ride Reports
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
07 | 06 | '26
In today’s ride, my goal was to get down Lower Showcase Showdown without dabbing, or walking, any one of the 4 spots that always seem to psych me out pretty easily.
Going up for the first time, the upper, north, end of Pathfinder was very overgro...
Submitted by tomvale on 7/7/26
07 | 04 | '26
On our country’s 250th Birthday, I turned 63. I invited a couple buddies from way back in High School over to Chelan and took them on a good XC mountain bike ride at Echo Ridge. We started riding a little after 7:30am to beat the heat and see th...
Submitted by tomvale on 7/7/26
07 | 02 | '26
Cleanest I've ever seen Cascara in ... ever. Noticed some filling in on Two Trees and Alder too. Nice work crew keeping it fun and techy and not tooooo easy! Thank you!!
Submitted by sean_horita on 7/3/26
06 | 25 | '26
I started around 7am this morning at the bottom of Waterbar Heaven and began climbing it since Bergman Gulch is still closed to mtb due to wildlife newborns. Once I got to the north junction, I went counter clockwise on the Outback and up Mallor...
Submitted by tomvale on 6/26/26
06 | 21 | '26
While the familes were sleeping in, a buddy and I rode Lord Hill to get our enjoyment in the gorgeous weather we had today. We climbed to the towers, did the Springboards, Meet Cutter with the new flowy reroute, and finished with Goldeneye, Third Eye...
Submitted by tomvale on 6/21/26