Was up at Kernville, CA this weekend, Fri. Sat and Sun. They love ebikes up there and quite honestly the trails up there are on the loose side including the climbs. A perfect place for plus size bikes and ebikes. The temps are really cooling off now, bring warm closes. We used Mountain & River's Adventures (MRA) for camping and shuttling!
Friday we did Just Outstanding and this is a great trail, but is at the top and only 4.5 miles long and you still have another 10 miles to figure out how to get to the bottom. We didn't have anyone who knew the way, so we ended up on some dirt bike trails. On the ebike it wasn't to bad but the regular bikes were having a tough time on the ups. By the time we got down we had about 18 miles. MRA needs to complete Just Out Standing and get something that continues to the bottom or have better signage for what is out there.
Sat. was the Cannell Trail, 25 miles long and about 2500 feet of climbing. This trail on an ebike is incredible, but even with an ebike, it really felt closer to 4k feet worth of climbing. This could be due to starting out at about 9k ft of elevation in the Sequoia National Forest. I love single track riding in the forest, unfortunately it must have been hunting season as well, as hunters were all over the place. Apparently, we did this trail the hard way as we stated on the single track for all the climbs. We had around 50 bikers and most hit the fire roads on these nasty single track climbs.
Sun. we did Just Outstanding again and still couldn't find a good way down to the bottom.
This was an awesome three day biking get away!
Friday we did Just Outstanding and this is a great trail, but is at the top and only 4.5 miles long and you still have another 10 miles to figure out how to get to the bottom. We didn't have anyone who knew the way, so we ended up on some dirt bike trails. On the ebike it wasn't to bad but the regular bikes were having a tough time on the ups. By the time we got down we had about 18 miles. MRA needs to complete Just Out Standing and get something that continues to the bottom or have better signage for what is out there.
Sat. was the Cannell Trail, 25 miles long and about 2500 feet of climbing. This trail on an ebike is incredible, but even with an ebike, it really felt closer to 4k feet worth of climbing. This could be due to starting out at about 9k ft of elevation in the Sequoia National Forest. I love single track riding in the forest, unfortunately it must have been hunting season as well, as hunters were all over the place. Apparently, we did this trail the hard way as we stated on the single track for all the climbs. We had around 50 bikers and most hit the fire roads on these nasty single track climbs.
Sun. we did Just Outstanding again and still couldn't find a good way down to the bottom.
This was an awesome three day biking get away!
