Skookum
05-20-2007, 11:17 AM
or Teanaway Lite if you prefer.
Just a few miles from I-90 and less than a few hours away from Seattle is a very unique and special riding area with vast potential. Every year Borneo Bob holds a campout at the Teanaway Forest Campground and leads people around the smaller ridges, drainages, and down in the Teanaway Valley. Locals would know the area as being sandwiched inbetween the slowly dying Ratpac Freeride trail and North to Northeast to the border of Forest Service Land near Corral Creek and West and Middle Fork Teanaway.
There are many trails that Borneo carries on about from time to time, and i was happy to finally hit him up on some of his knowledge. As always a strong turnout of riders of all abilities showed for his shindig and with the West side of the Cascades getting drenched by rain, no better place to be than the Teanaway.
A mixed bag of singletrack and forest road climbing. A peek at Mt. Stuart in the background.
http://home.comcast.net/~tbanning/RoslynSlickrock1.jpg
A little loose and washy, amazingly dry for this time of year. But nobody complained since we've all been fed a steady diet of muddy wet trails in the prior months.
http://home.comcast.net/~tbanning/RoslynSlickrock2.jpg
He stuck a turkey feather in his cap and called it macaroni.
Borneo
http://home.comcast.net/~tbanning/RoslynSlickrock3.jpg
The spring wildflowers and rocky outcrops certainly make this Spring ride a special one.
http://home.comcast.net/~tbanning/RoslynSlickrock4.jpg
Plenty of time to session, plenty of time for breaks, chatting and enjoying the view. The weather was starting the warm up a bit, the clouds started to break.
The group split as a bunch of us headed to "The Slab". It was a fun time with the group ditching me, me finding the group and them reporting on the radio that they found me.... they found me...., seeing, riding on or near some amazing sandstone, riding primitive trail, quality fast descending trail, short challenging grinder climbs, grassy open valley trail, and making our own trail over clearcut slash and bushes navigating our way over true cross country where you pick the line that's least likely to destroy your derailluer or have you endo onto your head.
Exclamation Point Rock
http://home.comcast.net/~tbanning/RoslynSlickrock5.jpg
Another angle with perspective.
"!"
http://home.comcast.net/~tbanning/RoslynSlickrock6.jpg
Finally up on "The Slab" as we scurried ourselves and bike up on the huge rock and lounged and played for a time.
http://home.comcast.net/~tbanning/RoslynSlickrock7.jpg
The Slab was very skookum.
http://home.comcast.net/~tbanning/RoslynSlickrock8.jpg
There were plenty of smaller sections of rock to session, as we returned back to the camp. It was definately good times, with a great group of riders.
http://home.comcast.net/~tbanning/RoslynSlickrock9.jpg
Just a few miles from I-90 and less than a few hours away from Seattle is a very unique and special riding area with vast potential. Every year Borneo Bob holds a campout at the Teanaway Forest Campground and leads people around the smaller ridges, drainages, and down in the Teanaway Valley. Locals would know the area as being sandwiched inbetween the slowly dying Ratpac Freeride trail and North to Northeast to the border of Forest Service Land near Corral Creek and West and Middle Fork Teanaway.
There are many trails that Borneo carries on about from time to time, and i was happy to finally hit him up on some of his knowledge. As always a strong turnout of riders of all abilities showed for his shindig and with the West side of the Cascades getting drenched by rain, no better place to be than the Teanaway.
A mixed bag of singletrack and forest road climbing. A peek at Mt. Stuart in the background.
http://home.comcast.net/~tbanning/RoslynSlickrock1.jpg
A little loose and washy, amazingly dry for this time of year. But nobody complained since we've all been fed a steady diet of muddy wet trails in the prior months.
http://home.comcast.net/~tbanning/RoslynSlickrock2.jpg
He stuck a turkey feather in his cap and called it macaroni.
Borneo
http://home.comcast.net/~tbanning/RoslynSlickrock3.jpg
The spring wildflowers and rocky outcrops certainly make this Spring ride a special one.
http://home.comcast.net/~tbanning/RoslynSlickrock4.jpg
Plenty of time to session, plenty of time for breaks, chatting and enjoying the view. The weather was starting the warm up a bit, the clouds started to break.
The group split as a bunch of us headed to "The Slab". It was a fun time with the group ditching me, me finding the group and them reporting on the radio that they found me.... they found me...., seeing, riding on or near some amazing sandstone, riding primitive trail, quality fast descending trail, short challenging grinder climbs, grassy open valley trail, and making our own trail over clearcut slash and bushes navigating our way over true cross country where you pick the line that's least likely to destroy your derailluer or have you endo onto your head.
Exclamation Point Rock
http://home.comcast.net/~tbanning/RoslynSlickrock5.jpg
Another angle with perspective.
"!"
http://home.comcast.net/~tbanning/RoslynSlickrock6.jpg
Finally up on "The Slab" as we scurried ourselves and bike up on the huge rock and lounged and played for a time.
http://home.comcast.net/~tbanning/RoslynSlickrock7.jpg
The Slab was very skookum.
http://home.comcast.net/~tbanning/RoslynSlickrock8.jpg
There were plenty of smaller sections of rock to session, as we returned back to the camp. It was definately good times, with a great group of riders.
http://home.comcast.net/~tbanning/RoslynSlickrock9.jpg