{"id":173,"date":"2009-01-01T20:42:48","date_gmt":"2009-01-02T04:42:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mxi2000.net\/mudworm\/2009\/01\/ucsc-wilder"},"modified":"2009-01-03T20:59:11","modified_gmt":"2009-01-04T04:59:11","slug":"ucsc-wilder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mxi2000.net\/mudworm\/2009\/01\/ucsc-wilder","title":{"rendered":"MTB: Start 2009 at UCSC and Wilder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, due to our scheduling mistakes, we moved our potluck with Sean and Steve&#8217;s families to the first day of 2009.\u00c2\u00a0 Because it would be at Sean&#8217;s place in Santa Cruz, we decided to go for a ride before the party. Sean had been riding there for years, so he made a perfect guide. It was my first time riding UCSC and I really enjoyed it. The trails there reminded me of the whoopy-de-doo ride at the lower part of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mxi2000.net\/mudworm\/2008\/09\/bc-road-trip#day4\" target=\"_blank\">McKenzie River Trail<\/a>. At one log crossing, my front tire washed out on the slippery tree trunk and I crashed. No damage was done tranks to my knee and elbow pads. I&#8217;d like to go back there soon.<\/p>\n<p>Photos are posted in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mudncrud.com\/gallery\/main.php?g2_itemId=23307\" target=\"_blank\">the gallery<\/a>. Following are a few highlights.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mudncrud.com\/gallery\/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&amp;g2_itemId=23311&amp;g2_serialNumber=2\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" \/>\u00c2\u00a0 An interesting tree<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mudncrud.com\/gallery\/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&amp;g2_itemId=23322&amp;g2_serialNumber=2\" \/> A Christmas tree on the trail<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mudncrud.com\/gallery\/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&amp;g2_itemId=23332&amp;g2_serialNumber=2\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/> Erik and Sean at Wilder Ranch. Did you notice Sean&#8217;s calves?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mudncrud.com\/gallery\/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&amp;g2_itemId=23372&amp;g2_serialNumber=2\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/> We watched the sunset from this log on Wilder Ranch.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mudncrud.com\/gallery\/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&amp;g2_itemId=23410\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mudncrud.com\/gallery\/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&amp;g2_itemId=23412&amp;g2_serialNumber=2\" \/><\/a> 9.27 miles and 734&#8242; ascent (click the image for full size topo).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, due to our scheduling mistakes, we moved our potluck with Sean and Steve&#8217;s families to the first day of 2009.\u00c2\u00a0 Because it would be at Sean&#8217;s place in Santa Cruz, we decided to go for a ride before the party. Sean had been riding there for years, so he made a perfect guide. It [&hellip;]<\/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":[150],"class_list":["post-173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mtb","tag-ucsc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mxi2000.net\/mudworm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173","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=173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mxi2000.net\/mudworm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mxi2000.net\/mudworm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mxi2000.net\/mudworm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mxi2000.net\/mudworm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}