RLAG Gambrill 3/3

[liznotter]

Ride Like a Girl is scheduled to ride Gambrill this Saturday at 10 am. It will be a casual-pace ride with short stops to regroup and a couple of longer stops to work on stuff.

This ride is VERY weather-dependent. And frankly, it's not looking too good, but I thought I'd post up just in case. I will go up there Friday and take a look at the places that generally drain the least, and will post conditions and ride status by Friday late afternoon.

If the ride is cancelled, the back-up plan is to join Jackson's Tri-State Ride
(http://www.more-mtb.org/forum/calendar.php?do=getinfo&e=565&day=2007-3-3&c=2).

Liz

[jkrones]

Liz:

I rode the roads up, down, and around Gambril and the Watershed yesterday. There's still a lot of snow up there in the woods. I briefly looked for biker activity and did not see any evidence of tire tracks. Also, the parking lot is not plowed.

--Janet

[liznotter]

Sorry, I'm going to have to call this one off... went up to Gambrill and the Shed today to check out the trails. I was pretty hopeful driving up toward the parking lot, hardly any snow to be seen from the road, but the parking lot is a large sheet of ice and the trailhead looks like the first picture. The trail itself consists of about 3 inches of thawed and refrozen snow; icy patches with a layer of water on top (I don't think it could be slicker if you ran a Zamboni over it); and huge puddles. Oh, and mud too.

So no ride! There's a MORE paved-trail ride at 10 leaveing from Gravelly Point: http://www.more-mtb.org/forum/showthread.php?t=6749

We'll keep our fingers crossed for the 24th.

Liz