{"id":171,"date":"2008-12-27T20:26:22","date_gmt":"2008-12-28T04:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mxi2000.net\/mudworm\/2008\/12\/skeggs-2-hmb"},"modified":"2008-12-30T09:59:10","modified_gmt":"2008-12-30T17:59:10","slug":"skeggs-2-hmb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mxi2000.net\/mudworm\/2008\/12\/skeggs-2-hmb","title":{"rendered":"MTB: Skeggs to Half Moon Bay"},"content":{"rendered":"

We were supposed to go to a potluck with two other families on December 27th, 2008.\u00c2\u00a0 What are the odds both Erik and I did not make the connection between the date and the day, and we made our separate plans for Saturday: he would climb at Pinnacles and I would ride at Skeggs. We felt terrible when we found out that the coming Saturday was December 27th, 2008!\u00c2\u00a0 However, the ride was a commitment I could not get out of. Before I was able to commit, Christine called for peer pressure, Charlie sent me a spinning wheel to hypnotize me into going, and the whole group postponed the start time by one hour to accommodate my ride up from La Honda. At last, Christine said she would bring donuts. That did it! “I’m in!” And now that the ride was over, I was so glad that I did the ride. (We postponed our potluck to Jan 1, 2009, and this time we blocked out both the Thursday and the 1st day of January in 2009.)<\/p>\n

Last time<\/a> I gave myself an hour and half to ride up to Skeggs from home on my mountain bike. I had time to stop at Alice’s and then do a good stretching session while waiting for Andrew.\u00c2\u00a0 With that in mind, I was planning to leave home today at 7am for our 8:30am start time. What I did not factor in was the fact that I have a little cat<\/a> now; plus, I’m feeding our neighbors’ seven cats.\u00c2\u00a0 By the time I left home, it was 7:25am. One good thing though was it was bright enough that I did not need a light.<\/p>\n

Driving past me on Skyline (I already told them not to stop for me) when I still had 2 or 3 miles to go, they were sure I would not make it to Skeggs on time. So when I pulled into the parking lot at 8:30 on the nose, certain people were not ready to roll. Hahaha..they were sandbagged!<\/p>\n

Let me introduce the group first. I heard the ride was Daryl<\/strong>‘s idea. He works at Passion Trail Bikes<\/a>. I rode with him on some shop rides. He seems to be very popular and every other person we run into on the trails seems to know him. Oh, he rides an Ibis Mojo!!!\u00c2\u00a0 Charlie<\/strong> is the ride planner. I first met him on the Henry Coe trail work\/ride<\/a> day and he was pretty much our ride guide that day too. I met Christine <\/strong>also on some PTB shop rides. She is here on vacation from a job overseas. Only a couple of weeks ago, she organized an amazing Skeggs ride on MTBR<\/a>. And donuts were involved too.\u00c2\u00a0 And Mike<\/strong>? Well, I ran into him at a trail intersection last time I rode Skeggs (with Andrew). He recognized me from my MTBR trip reports. I recognized his MTBR handle from many Henry Coe thread and had therefore already classified him as a cool guy before I even met him. He had to peel off for a family function after Manzanita Trail.<\/p>\n

According to Charlie, here is the route<\/strong> we took:<\/p>\n

Start Skeggs Point \u00c2\u00bb CM\u00c3\u02dc1 \u00c2\u00bb Fir Trail \u00c2\u00bb Sierra Morena Trail \u00c2\u00bb CM\u00c3\u02dc4 \u00c2\u00bb Skyline 35 \u00c2\u00bb CM\u00c3\u02dc4.5 \u00c2\u00bb Steam Donkey Trail \u00c2\u00bb Gordon Mill Trail \u00c2\u00bb Crossover Trail \u00c2\u00bb Crosscut Trail \u00c2\u00bb Timberview Trail \u00c2\u00bb Manzanita Trail \u00c2\u00bb Fir Trail \u00c2\u00bb Resolution Trail \u00c2\u00bb El Corte de Madera Creek Trail \u00c2\u00bb CM\u00c3\u02dc7 \u00c2\u00bb Star Hill Road \u00c2\u00bb Tunitas Creek Road \u00c2\u00bb PC\u00c3\u02dc4 \u00c2\u00bb Borden Hatch Mill Trail \u00c2\u00bb Grabtown Gulch Trail \u00c2\u00bb Purisima Creek Trail \u00c2\u00bb PC\u00c3\u02dc5 \u00c2\u00bb Higgins Purisima Road to Hwy 1, Half Moon Bay \u00c2\u00bb Highway 1 \u00c2\u00bb Coastal trails along the bluff \u00c2\u00bb Kelly Road \u00c2\u00bb Ride around HMB, get lunch \u00c2\u00bb Highway 1 \u00c2\u00bb Higgins Purisima Road \u00c2\u00bb PC\u00c3\u02dc5 \u00c2\u00bb Purisima Creek Trail \u00c2\u00bb Grabtown Gulch Trail (Charlie only) \u00c2\u00bb Borden Hatch Mill Trail \u00c2\u00bb PC\u00c3\u02dc4 \u00c2\u00bb Tunitas Creek Road \u00c2\u00bb Star Hill Road \u00c2\u00bb Swett Road \u00c2\u00bb Skyline 35 \u00c2\u00bb Skeggs Point.<\/p>\n

Are you some one who like numbers? I strive to please you. Here are the stats <\/strong>of our ride seen from all kinds of angles:<\/p>\n

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My photos <\/strong>are available on Picasa<\/a> with captions; and the same photos are also uploaded to our gallery<\/a> (originals and multiple sizes but no captions).\u00c2\u00a0 My photos pale next to Christine’s photos<\/a><\/strong>. You really have to click the link to see her arts. Then you would think we went on two different rides.<\/p>\n

Here is a terrain map<\/strong> of our ride from Skeggs:<\/p>\n

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My ride has been uploaded to MTBguru: ride from La Honda<\/a> and ride from Skeggs<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Okay. It’s just a rundown of my ride. There were so many funny moments from the ride that I laughed my throat sore. But my Little One is pacing next to me waiting for me to play with her. I’ve gotta go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We were supposed to go to a potluck with two other families on December 27th, 2008.\u00c2\u00a0 What are the odds both Erik and I did not make the connection between the date and the day, and we made our separate plans for Saturday: he would climb at Pinnacles and I would ride at Skeggs. We […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[105],"class_list":["post-171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mtb","tag-skeggs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mxi2000.net\/mudworm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mxi2000.net\/mudworm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mxi2000.net\/mudworm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mxi2000.net\/mudworm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mxi2000.net\/mudworm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mxi2000.net\/mudworm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mxi2000.net\/mudworm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mxi2000.net\/mudworm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mxi2000.net\/mudworm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}