"HammerheadFistpunch" (hammerheadfistpunch)
10/14/2014 at 18:35 • Filed to: Cruisin, blog
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"HammerheadFistpunch" (hammerheadfistpunch)
10/14/2014 at 18:35 • Filed to: Cruisin, blog | 8
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Every year I attend and participate in a large conference for my company at the Zer[laundry]matt resort in Midway Utah. Now midway is pretty much the place to be most times of the year, but in the fall? Well, if you like colorful mountainsides in sleepy Swiss villageesque like towns you've come to the right place. This year, instead of taking a pleasurable tarmac route I've taken in !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! when I was keeping a more turbocharged company I decided to take the long, dirty and unknown route up over the southern mountain pass. Below is a video of that trip.
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At the conference I ate well, worked hard and slept little, but I did get to go mountain biking and jump in an 80 foot deep 100 degree water filled crater (its actually where I Scuba certified) so all in all a great time to far.
At the end of the conference I had some time left in the day so my buddy and I decided to meet up in park city and ride the mid mountain trail, which is one of the best mountain bike trails there is...anywhere. It looks and feels a lot like !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! ...same people actually...except more yellow and leave covered.
Yeah, like that.
Anyway, I had a box lunch in the car and more time than I needed to make the rendezvous time so the plan was to pull off on a spur trail, erect the awning and have a nice little lunch, much like this spot the family and I ate ate not long ago in the same area.
Well I found a little spur trail and started taking it to...wherever it went, I had no idea. Well the thing is, it just keep going...so I just kept following it. What happened next was me discovering a new favorite place in the world. Seriously, what a treat. Well, check out the video below.
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I'm a little bummed that it terminates on private land, but I think there is a way around that, and even if there isn't, there is still a ton of the trail that isn't on private land. It was a little nerve racking trying to use my maps, and gps to navigate me to where I wanted to go it was also exhilarating to be something I didn't even know was on a map in the first place. This is exactly the kind of thing I bought the land cruiser for and I regret my decisions none-bit. So I met up for the bike ride 20 minutes late, so I didn't actually get to eat my lunch...who cares? such good times.
And now, a photo dump - This is me heading up American Fork Canyon, Past Tibble fork onto FR085 which I would follow up to the great western trail, and then down snake creek canyon into midway. I took a few detours that I want to follow up on, but I was REALLY tilting (seriously, like 35 degrees according to the cheap app I bought) and had lots of weight in the car so I decided against taking more time exploring that vein.
The next set of pictures was from the drive home on the road that I didn't know existed. You can see in some of the photos below the tarmac road I referenced earlier in the post.
The second to last picture is the property of the nice man that let me out of his property. Yes, thats TWO snow cats. Sigh.
Here is the route I took, red indicated off road travel. all told it was 138 miles round trip.
Thanks for sticking around to the end. I realize this comes off as just "look how neat i am" but that wasn't my intent. I just want to share how genuinely happy it made me to be out there in my cruiser seeing new things. That's the Jalop life is all about, right?
RallyWrench
> HammerheadFistpunch
10/14/2014 at 18:52 |
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What it's all about, indeed. Thanks for sharing. I can't wait to ride Park City someday.
Also, this picture!
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HammerheadFistpunch
> RallyWrench
10/14/2014 at 18:56 |
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I know right? I screwed the color balance and its still amazing...or at least I think it is. Anyway, give me a holler when you make it here to ride. I know a few good places.
PowderHound
> HammerheadFistpunch
10/14/2014 at 18:58 |
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Nice! I will have to check out the videos when I get home to see if they are subaruable. Mid mountain is fun but I hate the amount of switching my shocks from rigid to soft. You should try out pinecone ridge or the crest trail from guardsmans. Tons of fun! Still haven't gone to midway after a year in PC.
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RallyWrench
> HammerheadFistpunch
10/14/2014 at 19:03 |
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Will do, man. Likewise if you ever find your self on the central coast of CA, lots of great riding here. These are my local trail building groups:
ZHP Sparky, the 5th
> HammerheadFistpunch
10/14/2014 at 19:04 |
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Amazing, I miss Utah when I see stuff like this (especially given this dry brown California summer that's lasted multiple years at this point). Beautiful shots!
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HammerheadFistpunch
> PowderHound
10/14/2014 at 19:05 |
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I know the pinecone trail well, in fact we join that, the crest and mid mountain to form the "supercrest"...its a killer loop. Im not sure about switching the shocks, I just set it and forget it, but I typically don't ride past spiro since it gets too dry and rocky from there. The first video is 100% Subaruable, the 2nd is ill advised, especially in the trees where it gets pretty rutted. Its not in the video but I crossed some 2 foot deep mud bogs and bottomed out the truck once. Midway is the pimp right now, just take empire pass up and over and then bomb down in midway from there. You wont regret it, its a fun road and lots of twisties. Plus there is a fun trail called dutch hollow there that I like. I produced a video on it a few years ago.
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HammerheadFistpunch
> RallyWrench
10/14/2014 at 19:07 |
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where at exactly? I have family in Torrance and San Diego, but nothing north of that.
Jonathan Harper
> HammerheadFistpunch
10/14/2014 at 19:53 |
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Wow that is awesome. Looks like such a fun trip and great documentation!
I need to rent a 4x4 in Utah!
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PowderHound
> HammerheadFistpunch
10/14/2014 at 20:09 |
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supercrest sounds terrifying. I guess I have been to midway once. I took that road from empire pass once but it was in the dark. Very fun twisties
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RallyWrench
> HammerheadFistpunch
10/14/2014 at 20:26 |
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San Luis Obispo, about 5 hours north. Killer riding around SoCal though.
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HammerheadFistpunch
> Jonathan Harper
10/14/2014 at 21:44 |
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if you do give me a shout and well go rock the trails
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Jonathan Harper
> HammerheadFistpunch
10/14/2014 at 21:54 |
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I for surely will, thanks.
davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com
> HammerheadFistpunch
10/14/2014 at 22:14 |
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Just awesome and inspiring...