Tuesday 11 March 2008

LA March 10

Went mountain biking Los Robles trail - 30km in 3.5 hrs.

Los Angeles- March 9th 2008

I drove back from San Diego to Vanessa and Mike's and had a barbeque with Bonnie and Steven and Jim.

Next day we went hiking on Sandstone Peak for 5miles and had lunch at 3111 ft Mt Allen peak.

San Diego Conference

San Diego March 5th-9th

Sunday 2 March 2008

Los Angeles- March 1st 2008

Flew out to LA on leap day- Feb 29th.

Grabbed a rental Jeep, and drove to Mike and Vanessa's place in Thousand Oaks.
On Saturday hooked up with Jennifer and Rory and borrowed a Specialized stumpjumper M4 hardtail with Fox forks 80mm.

We drove to and rode Sycamore canyon for 30km. A great ride.
http://www.singletrackmind.com/Trails/Cheeseboro%20Palo%20Comado%20Canyons/Simi_China_Index.htm

In the evening we toured up stunt road but it was too hazy/foggy to get a view so we descended and crusied the PCH (Pacific Coastal Highway) along Mailbu with Vanessa and Mike, took a beer at Gladstones and watched the fantastic sunset a very round orange/pink sun sinking into the see. Iconic Malibu!

On Sunday it was a fantastic sunny day around 75 degrees and dead windy. We took the Jeep so we could ride Cheeseboro canyon and the Palo Comado trail http://www.singletrackmind.com/Trails/Cheeseboro%20Palo%20Comado%20Canyons/Cheeseboro_Index.htm

27.7km and a sub later we got back to the Jeep or the Willys CJ3 from 1950, we strapped our bikes on the rollbar and tried to start it forgetting we had immobilised the distributor csap! A great fun drive back to the house in the sun and high winds of the Santa Anas!