Adventure Racing & Orienteering
 Sullivan Canyon - October 31, 2004
The weekend of Halloween found me heading south to Los Angeles to spend the weekend with the Calados to take my nephew, Spiderman, trick-or-treating. Sunday morning we met up with Eric, one of Carey's friends, to show us around some local mountain bike trails. He took us up into the Santa Monica Mountains. We drove up and up through the fancy pants Palisades and began our ascent up a trail called Westridge. We followed the Westridge fireroad up and up ... and up, toward the retired NIKE missle site, hitting up a small section of single track along the way.
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A "movie" of me riding down the hill where the single track exits back onto the fireroad.
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We took a 10 minute break at the NIKE missle site (now converted to a lookout picnic site) to refuel before follwing the fireroad a little bit longer before coming across a long, fun, downhill section of singletrack! This section is known as Sullivan Canyon and shoots you out more or less right where you park in the fancy pants neighborhood.
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Our total loop was ~11 miles. You'll notice that Eric never appeard in any of these pictures. He was having fun with his new fun Sony camera so he'd often race ahead, find a decent spot, then snap away as we "raced" by. Thanks for the pictures, Eric!
More pictures are viewable HERE.
Check out the topo map of our ride (courtesy SingleTrack Mind).
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But this was the real fun of the trip ... HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!