Ride Report: El Moro

This weekend MtnBikeRiders.com headed out to El Moro (aka Crystal Cove State Park).  Priscilla, RL and I were joined by our friends Dan and Gabe.

 

We started at the Ridge Park entrance and headed down Redtail Ridge to Rattlesnake.  The first part of our ride were primarily descents.  There were different levels of downhill through fast fire-roads, singetracks and technical sections.

 

Reaching the bottom of the canyon we climbed out to the middle section of Mach One. From here is another fast descent on a fire-road, hence the name Mach One. Reaching the speeds into the 40mphs was not a problem.

 

We started our real climb up “I Think I Can”.  This was a long grind up… It’s interesting how some of El Moro’s trail names live up to their name.  At some point the climb got the best of Gabe.  No shame in that as from my understanding this was his first “real” mountain bike ride.  Reaching the top of this trail, we rested for a bit before another climb up Moro Ridge.  This was a gradual climb towards to top but not as steep as I Think I Can. 

 

We were almost there…  Reaching Missing Link we headed westbound on another singletrack where it eventually it took us to our starting point, then back to our cars.  This was a good ride.  We had our fair share of climbing and descents.  Below is a video of our descents through several segments of El Moro.