A summer trip mostly in images. Will focus on riding shots.

Thought people might be interested in what normal people ride when visiting epic locations.

The time: 4 weeks.

The route: Central Oregon through the Coast of California and back up to Portland.

The goal: To validate our thoughts that there is a happier place on earth than Disneyland.

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1 - Bend

La Pine State Park

Lava Lands

Phil's Trails

TiddleyWinks/Funner Area

Burney Falls - En Route to Lassen

2 Lassen Volcanic National Park

Patch skiing near the summit of Lassen?

3 Lake Tahoe

Oneidas/Fountain Place

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VanSickle State Park

Northstar Bike Park

4 [HTML_REMOVED]#8211; Mammoth Lakes

Devil's PostPile National Monument

Mammoth Mountain Bike Park

Mammoth Lakes Basin and Crystal Lake

Painted River Geothermal Area

5 [HTML_REMOVED]#8211; Yosemite [HTML_REMOVED]#8211; Got evacuated after one day due to fires

Tuolomne Meadows

6 [HTML_REMOVED]#8211; King's Canyon/Sequoia National Park

King's Canyon

Granite Erratics

Sequoia National Park [HTML_REMOVED]#8211; the Oldest Trees in the World

General Sherman, the oldest and largest (by board feet) tree in the world [HTML_REMOVED]#8211; think how many ladder bridges could be built

6 [HTML_REMOVED]#8211; Anaheim/Disneyland/Hollywood

7 [HTML_REMOVED]#8211; Santa Barbara

Jesusita Trail Solo
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Arroyo Burro

8 [HTML_REMOVED]#8211; Santa Cruz/Capitola

Soquel Demo Forest - "Demo"

Aptos [HTML_REMOVED]#8211; the Post Office/EpiCenter Cycles

9 [HTML_REMOVED]#8211; Portland/Sandy Ridge

The result: Disneyland was not their favourite part of the trip…

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Sweet! What are groms running for bikes?

Awesome.

Looks like an awesome vacation!
What was your favorite trail of the trip?

Looks like the ultimate family holiday.

GtrGuy - they are both on small 26" frames modded to 24" wheels. Higher bb frames with shorter cranks. Girl is on a Banshee Wildcard - got a new old stock frame for $300. Boy is on a Norco 4XXX - got a barely used frame for $250. Working well, as the girl likes the more plush ride of a more freeride style frame and the boy likes the firmness of the slopestyle type frame, as he really likes the jump trails and dirt jumps.

Hermes - hard to pick a favourite trail. They were so diverse with lots of good. We sought out the interwebz and local knowledge for the "3 best" of each area that the kids' could also handle, so there was not really a lemon in the bunch. Some more fun than others however!

Bend - Tiddleywinks - esp. with all the work they've done on the middle section.

Tahoe - been there a couple times and still love Armstrong Pass to Mr. Toad's. Bang for buck, it's hard to beat VanSickle.

Northstar BP - a great park overall. Gypsy wins.

Mammoth BP - a huge ranging park with as many climbs as descents, but big long epic descents possible. Twilight Zone or Pipeline.

Santa Barb - no favourite… pretty average and I found the network disjointed and harder to coordinate.

Santa Cruz - Demo Forest is the key riding place (yes, there are other more secret locations, but I don't know them)… of Demo, Braille wins. Climb in and climb out, however.

Sandy - Flying Monkey.

Whitehonky killing it at life.

Fun had by all. What rig did you drive down in?

Fun had by all. What rig did you drive down in?

'13 F150 with EcoBoost engine.
'09 19.5' Takena UltraLite.

We actually used to pull it with a Ford Escape, but got the truck more for the bikes than the pulling!

uber cool!!!

Bloody awesome - as always!