Here I am (more or less) at the top of the trail (the very top is still a little ways behind me here) looking back down it. This is quite a ride coming down, I assure you!

The roads start off straight and easy to navigate.

The road navigating is a little tricky - lots of roads to choose from. My stomach starts to bother me.

Gated section of Loop Trail is doubletrack or wide singletrack.

We're still on the pipeline, but a road makes the walking easier. Physically, anyway.

Two hours into our Cape Solitude hike we can clearly follow the doubletrack and are certainly in the open desert. Colter and I encountered some wild horses out here. I don't know why I don't have any photos of them!

On the grassy Broad Mountain doubletrack.

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The bridge from Salamander across the doubletrack to Phase 1.

The two hundred or so meters of legal doubletrack in Rancho San Antonio... This used to be ungroomed.

On the grassy Broad Mountain doubletrack.

still more doubletrack heading toward The Talon

more fast doubletrack with some climbing between Hawk's Head and The Talon.

Sean on the doubletrack just before the trail that skirts teh resevoir.

Where I ended up after nadgery, rocky singletrack and swooping doubletrack.

Falls Creek, near the upper lava sinkholes. The doubletrack that goes right by there would be bypassed with a trail around the east side of the sinkholes, and by the creek.

more doubletrack

doubletrack continues

some good dirt doubletrack

Nice doubletrack

Nice Doubletrack

Vince arriving at the top of the doubletrack. We all had a great climb.