Ride Reports
01 | 09 | '22
Took advantage of the beautiful day and went on Burnt Cedar, Outer Limits, out to the Falls for a couple of pictures, and then Barracuda and Funner. The wet roots got me twice today and the second time was on Funner, ironically. I went OTB and my gla...
Submitted by tomvale on 1/10/22
01 | 05 | '22
I first drove out to Darrington to do the Skills Park but the North Mountain Road was a double track with 12" deep center and my car was just bulldozing. I had to back out to highway 530 to turn around and go to another location. I went to the Lord H...
Submitted by tomvale on 1/5/22
12 | 29 | '21
Only because we got so much snow, and a long, frigid, spell of 20ish degree temps, there was plenty of parking to enjoy Paradise. The snow was lightly packed on the trails and the bike tracked and climbed real well. Mainline, Twisted Hemlock, the Tra...
Submitted by tomvale on 12/30/21
12 | 21 | '21
Got to the Park's new main lot early this morning and then climbed to the summit viewpoints for my pictures and then descended Sidewinder to Bonnie and Clyde. B&C was still marked as closed due to a lower than normal powerline but it was still higher...
Submitted by tomvale on 12/21/21
12 | 17 | '21
Took a buddy back to North Mountain to do the Lower Out of the Blue segment described last time and also gave him a tour of the Skills Park. The road up is still climb-able but with a couple more inches of snow, it will be tough and time to wait for...
Submitted by tomvale on 12/17/21
12 | 13 | '21
Went to Darrington this morning and parked at the gate at the bottom of Out of the Blue and climbed the road up to the first trail crossing to descend the last segment of Out of the Blue. There was 4-6 inches of snow at the top of that last segment b...
Submitted by tomvale on 12/13/21
12 | 09 | '21
After watching some of the JGulch chats in Everegreen's Annual ZOOM meeting, I went to the Gulch to sample the Orion trail. When I got to the top of Orion and took a quick break, a friend, and friends of the friend, were coming up after sessioning it...
Submitted by tomvale on 12/10/21
12 | 07 | '21
It has been 5 years since my last trip to T-Mac so I went here this morning for a nice 3 1/2 hour review before the next round of rain. I was also told I needed to do Badger and others in the clearing to have a good ride. I did all of that and had a...
Submitted by tomvale on 12/8/21
12 | 05 | '21
So Master Link up to Inside Passage is fine, above that the snow depth increases pretty quickly. The fire roads above Quick Link are unrideable; there were four other guys pushing their bikes along with me. East Tiger Summit is about 3" deep as it's...
Submitted by Bryan on 12/5/21
12 | 04 | '21
The Mountain Loop Highway closed for the winter yesterday evening so before there was too much snow I was hoping to make one more ride on the gravel bike to Barlow Pass. Snow was falling after the Robe Valley and snow began collecting on the road aro...
Submitted by tomvale on 12/4/21
12 | 03 | '21
I made it from the lot to Stan's Overlook in about 65 minutes, pretty good for a 60 year old! PT and Flow State are heavily rutted, with large braking bumps in all the berms. Please join me in the 12/11 work party here, Raging needs some work. Good n...
Submitted by Bryan on 12/4/21
11 | 30 | '21
On a group ride Tuesday, November 30, a bike (pretty nice) was found. Smaller size and still pretty new. Contact two zero six three eight four three seven five three.
Submitted by petfah on 12/1/21
11 | 29 | '21
Caught the break in the rains and went to another of the 'best draining' trail systems in Puget Sound, Cherry Valley. The access road is wet but the trails are good. I had to go around an early morning accident on Cherry Valley Road by going east on...
Submitted by tomvale on 11/30/21
11 | 24 | '21
I started climbing this morning at 6am, from the upper lot, and was excited to try the new Side Hustle trail as 'Bryan' described in the last Tiger report. I began with lights on the helmet and handlebars and by the top of Masterlink, I turned them o...
Submitted by tomvale on 11/25/21
11 | 21 | '21
We are so spoiled here in the PNW. In just the last few months Tiger has added Extra Terrestrial, Close Encounters, Super T and now Side Hustle. We rode Master and Quick Link to East Tiger Summit, then Side Hustle across the fire road at the bottom o...
Submitted by Bryan on 11/21/21
11 | 20 | '21
I missed the grand reopening of Little Mountain's Skill Park and Trail additions back on Sept 12th so I made it my next destination this weekend. Last time I was here was three years ago so I needed to check it out and get a new impression of Little...
Submitted by tomvale on 11/21/21
11 | 18 | '21
Had to detour around the road closure in Snohomish and got to the North trailhead via the Monroe end of the road. The water receded and the road was back open after this morning's ride was done. I went up to the towers and down Springboard, Meetcutte...
Submitted by tomvale on 11/18/21
11 | 17 | '21
Started climbing up the shuttle road at 7 this morning to do Lower Skyline and see what wind and water damage occurred from the two atmospheric rivers. There was 1-2” of snow at the top of Lower Skyline and then three 8” blown trees over the trail th...
Submitted by tomvale on 11/18/21
11 | 13 | '21
A group of three of us, along with three or four other separate groups enjoyed the trail today while mother nature reloads for the next round of rain. The trail has drained really well so traction was good. However the leaves along the upper traverse...
Submitted by tomvale on 11/14/21
11 | 08 | '21
This morning was a bit foggy at the Leavenworth Ski Hill when I started climbing around 8am. I took the climbing trail up to the Rosy Boa junction and went down the connector to the Downhill trail and continued climbing back up to the top of the Boa...
Submitted by tomvale on 11/9/21