Grand Ridge in Issaquah

Greg's family was out of town, so he convinced me to fly up to Seattle for the weekend. This was to be the first full test for the newly packed Ibis (which we would stay up to 2am building, but that's another story). There was also a promise about Seattle Sounders tickets... Anyway it was guaranteed to be a weekend of xbox and sweeeeet trails. After an xbox session that lasted until 4:30am, we got a bit of sleep, woke up, and loaded our rigs onto GG's pimped out 1997 Honda.


This was really an REI ride, all the REI guys like to travel in flocks. Luckily, there are some a-ok people who work there. So we had a pretty good (and fit) group on the trail.


Grand Ridge is rideable from downtown Issaquah (a suburb of Seattle), and basically consists of 95% delicious singletrack. Hard-packed and tight, Grand Ridge goes up and down, is reasonably technical and just fun as hell.


A little technical trouble on the Ibis' maiden voyage - the hub end-caps unthreaded enough to sieze the hub in the fork. Made a fantastic squeaking sound.


But all ended well and the Ibis rode pretty darn tough. A bit of rain in the last 30 minutes gave us a spattering of mud.


After a big ride, it's time for a burrito...