Monday, February 20, 2012
A Quick Ride... Doumont Tr., Okay Mt. & Sundew Gate
It was pretty good weather yesterday and I figured some of the ice and snow might have cleared up through the tank traps on the Doumont Trail entrance to the logging roads. I headed out, made it through the traps traps and managed to get half way along the trail that skirts the east side of Okay Mountain. I was eventually stopped by ice and snow as the altitude buggered things up for me and eventually I returned to the lower roads. So... I headed off towards Round Lake and rode the routine route to Sundew Gate. The gate is easily passable now that the quads have obliterated all the hard work the logging people went to in blocking the gate. :) Here's an iPod time-lapse video from the Doumont Trail entrance, through the tank traps and up a new (active, dead end) logging road that has appeared near turn for Okay Mountain trail (eastern edge). BTW, when old farts go riding in mud puddles, they always poke them with a stick to check the base! Watch the video and you'll get what I mean:
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Nice, Andy. Did you try to do the GCR round OK and back to nanoose? Didn't see any snow.
ReplyDelete1. up the Doumont Trail 2. left towards Boomerang ("Intersection A") 3.up a new trail (dead end) that begins near the Okay Lake turn 4. came back & went up the trail we did together that sides Okay Mt... stopped by snow and gooeyness 5. back to main intersection (what I call "int. B") and rode up the logging road we took towards arrowsmith, (turned back where it forms the hard V left turn towards arrowsmith lk 6. came back to "int B" then "A" and rode the round lake route to sundew. 7. highway home. Just an excuse to go for a long blast really, without any real destination. :) Nearly 70km!!
DeleteUs old farts have learned the hard way. lol I'm always leary of ruts that you can't see. Don't mind the splash so much but cold wet feet can ruin a good ride quick. Looks like you have some great riding up there ... sure beats sitting around the house doesn't it!!
ReplyDeleteYea, the riding is pretty good up here... Thanks, I guess, to some pretty active Vancouver Island logging. There are plenty of quads up here Terry, especially on this nice little trail and any pools have a good likelihood of containing stripped logs jammed down where you can't see them. Nothing designed better to ruin your day than a wet submerged log at 45 degrees to your front tire as you no doubt know. I don't care if I look old and pathetic... I'll check the pools and ride like an old man when necessary. We keep getting brief snow falls that manage to bugger up this fantastic entrance to our logging roads. I'm SO looking forward to the REAL spring when it decides to arrive.
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