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Jumpingpound Mountain | 2010-08-28
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Getting mad at my scramble buddy, I decided not to go scramble. After a 5-day backpacking my knees were little tired and my back was little sore, so I thought this is an opportunity to mountain bike which I hardly ever do nowadays.
I followed description from “Backcountry Biking in the Canadian Rockies”. The book suggests to start from south trail to north trail, so simply did what the book says. The trail was steep as I expected. I am not liking “bike trails” in the Rockies… I used to ride all the time when I was in college in Ohio. Bike trails in Ohio was so much better simply because they were designed and built for biking, not shared trail or old logging/fire road like many of “bike trails” here. Going up south trail was steep and rough that I pretty much pushed my bike all the way up until near ridge where terrain got flattened. After that it was nice biking to the summit. From summit, I was supposed to take north ridge, but mistakenly I took east ridge which somewhat connects to Moose Mountain… The north trail was much smoother than south and that made downhill more enjoyable. I took road to get back to my super car.
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