Sunday, April 12: DS/Big Bike Ride, Boulder - Mag - maybe West Mag, maybe P2P - Mammoth - Moon

Hey y’all. Who’s up for a local ride tomorrow?

Planning to take the big bike around Mammoth and Moon Gulch, counterclockwise. If West Mag - 105.1 is open we’ll go down to Tolland that way on a trial and error basis unless I find the wherewithal to dig up actual information on trail closure status. It’s orange on COTREX, but I think it always is.

Could do lunch at Toss and then play the return by ear, perhaps P2P - Switz - Gold Hill General Store for a cookie, or Mag to 68J down, or just Mag down.

My main interest is getting in a rep on Moon - Mammoth, which I have only done once or twice. Open to any suggestions beyond that.

Level of difficulty: someone more seasoned than me will have to check my work here, since, again, I’ve only done the individual segments on this route once or twice. I would say the whole thing including 105.1 could be referred to as a B ride on a big bike. I could be wrong about 105.1.

If we don’t get clarity from a 105.1 vet, those with doubts can take P2P and we can rendezvous in Rollinsville before continuing on.

10:00 am rendezvous at Spruce in North Boulder for SCONES and BS, 10:30 KSU. For now. May revise to an earlier time.

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I’ll have to hop on the next one! Going to do CORCs round 2 in Aguilar tomorrow

WestMag is closed. The gate is very close to the campground so you’ll know very quickly if I’m wrong. . Intermediate on a big bike. I would not take a B rider on that if they were on a big bike.

Same with Moon Gulch. Curious to see how Mammoth. we got shut down with snow / ice about 2mi in 2wks ago

All points noted. Thanks, Rich.

@Burntclutch Have a blast, bring back a race report. I am CORCS-curious.

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I’m a possible maybe

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A buddy was just on Apex road last Saturday and saw this:

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And I would call Moon Gulch an A ride by our rough guidelines. On a big bike anyway. And 105.1 is a B+ on a big bike I would say.

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99.9% WestMag is closed.

if you want to do Moon Gulch, you can do it from P2P and go up vs up Mammoth, Elk Park, Apex, entering MG from the top and going down.

I think I’m in. I like scones.

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I don’t have my big bike dialed in yet. Just got it last week. I will seet you over at the Spruce on my small bike.

What about on a snow bike?

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Yep, we’ll poke around and see what works. Could be a fun pavement day :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

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Doh

See pics of Apex above. That’s a lotta snow.

Bill is correct on the grading. It’s a lot. Switz is B. Mammoth is quite a bit harder with steepies, big loose rocks, etc. West Mag was closed when Paulo and I were up there a few days ago.

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I’m in for all or some. 790

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