{"id":370,"date":"2009-05-17T20:59:48","date_gmt":"2009-05-18T04:59:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mxi2000.net\/mudworm\/?p=370"},"modified":"2009-05-17T20:59:48","modified_gmt":"2009-05-18T04:59:48","slug":"romp-skeggs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mxi2000.net\/mudworm\/2009\/05\/romp-skeggs","title":{"rendered":"MTB: ROMP Ride at Skeggs (Checking out Giant Salamander)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had known about ROMP&#8217;s monthly group rides at Skeggs for a while and this was my first time attending one after seeing Josh&#8217;s reminder on MTBR. We started with five of us, but we lost Hank shortly into the ride after he over-shot the turn off to Blueblossom. Later when we saw him back at the parking lot, we learned that his chain broke twice on his ride.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know Giant Salamander well enough to comment on its re-routing. My main concern is riders can fly fast on it at some of those rolling ups and downs without a good visibility to what&#8217;s beyond the next hump. I&#8217;m not a fast rider and was still surprised by the two riders standing off the trail when I &#8220;flew&#8221; by them. I just hope we don&#8217;t hear about bad collisions on this trail in the future.\u00c2\u00a0 It can be a pretty lucrative place to set up speed traps if the rangers are willing to hike in a bit. Let&#8217;s hope they don&#8217;t know that.<\/p>\n<p>I took a couple of the photos at the Red Barn on my way home. When I rode to Skeggs from La Honda and back, I kept thinking I would much rather be riding on the dirt in those surreal hills than on this highway where cars kept blasting by me. I&#8217;m going to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openspace.org\/CGI-BIN\/agendas_minutes\/2009.05.19.agenda_r_09-16.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">La Honda Creek Master Plan Project: May 19 Meeting<\/a> to let them know just that!<br \/>\nVandalism?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Vandalism?\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mudncrud.com\/gallery\/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&amp;g2_itemId=31924&amp;g2_serialNumber=2\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Red Barn on Hwy 84<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"red barn\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mudncrud.com\/gallery\/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&amp;g2_itemId=31949&amp;g2_serialNumber=2\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Maybe someday I can ride over there.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"OLH Creek Open space\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mudncrud.com\/gallery\/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&amp;g2_itemId=31954&amp;g2_serialNumber=2\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mtbguru.com\/trip\/iframe\/9701?width=500px&#038;height=500px\" width=\"510px\" height=\"565px\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had known about ROMP&#8217;s monthly group rides at Skeggs for a while and this was my first time attending one after seeing Josh&#8217;s reminder on MTBR. We started with five of us, but we lost Hank shortly into the ride after he over-shot the turn off to Blueblossom. Later when we saw him back [&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":[105],"class_list":["post-370","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\/370","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=370"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mxi2000.net\/mudworm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":371,"href":"https:\/\/www.mxi2000.net\/mudworm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370\/revisions\/371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mxi2000.net\/mudworm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mxi2000.net\/mudworm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mxi2000.net\/mudworm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}