Brown's Ranch - Ender's Game

Usually, when we do a Brown's Ranch ride, or any ride in general with a group, things tend do de-evolve into a back and forth over who wants to do what.  Ivie and I talked earlier in the week about doing a cx ride from his house to Brown's Ranch and when that didn't happen, I was fortunate that the group let me do some intel and design a ride for this last Saturday.  The objective was to throw in some new with some old favorites and try and hit all corners of the park.

The goal was 8 am at Fraesfield Trailhead.  I like using it as a starting point due to the fact that it isn't usually crowded and it is a good start and finish point for a myriad of different rides.  I showed up with my usual co-pilot, the Gov in tow.  Ivie was there with the Strat man. 

The Gov working on some coffee.

Gameface?

Ryan Ivie - Lean, mean fighting machine.

Somehow, we managed to link together a series of awesome old (to us) trails and introduced us to some new (to us) trails that we had never ridden.  West Express was a riot.  We managed to break off a big chunk of Stagecoach which was new to me.  The only regret was a relative lack of time and the fact that I missed the turn to Stagecoach from West Express.  I must have been to busy having a blast.

The Gov pedalstanding some granite.

Mark Stratford - man of the mountains.

Ryan Ivie, pedal stomping the Whiskey Bottle descent.

As we say, it's hard to mess Brown's up.

Here's to next time.

Scoottay

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