Darkhorse 40 Reports

[elzoller]

I did a long ride at Blue in 2007 as well, and it seemed hard, but almost manufactured so. Ringwood is just HARD, just lunatic rocks, like you can barely walk through these trails and you have lunatics barreling up and over and down on their mountain bikes! Blue was hard, but rideable, although I've heard that there are some VERY gnarly places there...

In that time frame (fall of 2007), I also rode JH with Ben Williams and we flew through a lot of it. But... then I heard they've added a ton of nasty singletrack -- like huge boulders in the middle of the trail. With the State Championships being at JH this year, I want to ride the course several times, but I also know it's going to be a rock-fest and better riders will leave me way behind!

I'd love to ride Ringwood with you, to find a loop I could practice on... I'm actually planning a group ride of the JH race loop on probably AUG 28 with a bunch of riders. Feel free to come on out! The more, the merrier!!!

KL

He said Gnarly.....😉

All kidding aside....

I agree Ringwood is more technical than Blue. If you take out the natural features from Blue is just, for the most part, pure dirt, where in Ringwood, waWay and JH you have bunch of rocks in the middle of the trail. The thing with Blue, it just flows like crazy!! it is a friggin playground!

Skyline to Shepperds, yellow...probably not the best place to start if you are just getting used to Rocks....You should stick with parking at Lot C or Ryerson and doing Warm Puppy, Skylands and Race course.

 

[lawndart]

Ken,
Zach told me about your placement at the DH40 last week when I was at Campmor. Congrats Dude!!! Keep it up. Lemme know if you wanna ride RW or JH sometime during the week. Im off Tuesdays and Wednesdays.

 

[pooriggy]

I live like 10 minutes from Ringwood but don't want to get lost or DIE. That pretty much sums up my thoughts about venturing there.

KL

I'll get in touch with you over the fall/winter to ride Ringwood and Allamuchy, there good xc riding with some technical thrown in. You'll kick ass on the trails next season.