Lake Margaret Ride

If you like to earn your descent you would love this area! The three trails mentiond below: YGD is You're Going Down and SnT is Sick and Twisted and Funner is, well, Funner. YGD is a technical descent with some fast parts, some wicked drops and a couple exposed switch backs to keep you honest. SnT is just plain stupid fast twisting single track. When its dry you can really fly. Funner is a brand new technical descent we just got through helping my buddy Bob build, its fun now but its going to be amazing once it packs in!

There are several creeks that pour out of or around lake Margaret. With all the rain these things have been huge! And that sucks if you end up on the wrong side of them.


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Randy and I rode from the house out the pipline trial to 322nd, down the hill to Kelly Road and then took the right on to 151st. Things were going well until I decided to take a right and climb instead of a left and descend at the T. So we climbed and climbed, descended for a quick bit and then got back to climbing until we hit a clear cut and realized we were on the wrong ridge. No matter, we just shot back down and headed across the little bridge and up that road to the trail that cuts through, or I guess used to cut through, the two big rocks and made our way back to the middle road. The trip between the rocks has been re-routed.

We then climbed up the road that borders Funner and got on the wrong side of the creek up at the blow out. I knew it would still be high, but I wanted to see the new trail Bob cut in around the wash out and I really figured we could just hop across.... Right. It was doable, but we had to improvise a bit. We pulled some of the downed logs from the road and laid them across the rocks, I imagine they'll be gone by the next rain, but it allowed us the one step we needed to get to the other side. We were running out of time now, our little diversion to the clear cut took about 40 minutes, so we just headed up to YGD and out SnT.

Mileage- about 16
Ride Time - 2hr 40min
Calories - 2100

Two other notables for those of you that have ridden out here:
1- we met up with the guy that guides horse trips as we were making our way back to the middle road, he was coming off the trail on to the road there by the two big rocks you used to be able to ride between. We were stopped anyway, orienting, but man did he give me the hairy eyeball, even turned around in his saddle to keep eyeballin me as they rode down around the corner there. I just waived politely, smiled, and wished them a good ride.
2- when we were making our way across the creek we could see fresh debris in the trees ABOVE our heads, too much rain I guess.