Mount Diablo trails ride

[dstein]

Is anyone interested in riding some trails at Mt. Diablo or at least have some good recommendations?

I have only ridden south gate and north gate roads to the top, but never any of the trails (outside of Shell Ridge and Diablo foothills Regional Park anyway).

Would love get a group out there to hit some up. Maybe the 1st weekend of December depending on weather.

I'm looking at three on Bay Area Rides: Mitchell Canyon to the top, Mothers/Diablo Ranch/Buckeye Trails, and Oyster Point trail. I'm assuming these are all fire roads?

Let me know if anyone is interested or has some good routes.

[Neil]

Mitchell Canyon - Deer Flat - Devil's Elbow - Prospectors Gap is a classic dirt route. Lot's o' climbing, though. My recollection is that the only singletrack was Devil's Elbow and North Peak Trail...some exposure there, too...followed by crazy-fast FR descent on Prospectors Gap.

I rode the Oyster Point loop years ago, and remember it being pretty fun. Kind of out of the way trailhead, but probably ideal for a mixed terrain ride where you ride out there from town. Not as much climbing over there, and I seem to recall quite a bit of singletrack. Not as many park users, either. 

I'd be down for this ride.

[dstein]

Oh whoops, I meant to post this in the Bay Area Rivendell Riders goggle group which is a group I started so I wouldn't flood this one with regional ride threads. I'll post over there and use that to reply with: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/bay-area-rivendell-riders/fLkSjpDRcuU

Neil - thanks for the pointers and if you're down I'm down. Check out the other thread and we can work out logistics, I'm sure others will join.

Dave

[René Sterental]

What is this Bay Area Rivendell Riders Group? Is it open?

René 

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Yeah absolutely, go check it out on the link below and feel free to post rides or join some roses. You'll need to request membership to keep the spammers out but I'll approve you right away.

It's pretty small. I started it earlier in the year to meet up with local rivendell riders since there seems to be so many. Got a good core group of people on there, we get together once a month or so and have a few people that post a mix of paced, trail, and s240's. Mostly seems to be east and north bay but all are welcome across the bay and whatever bike you ride, rivendell or not. 

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[René Sterental]

Thanks!

[René Sterental]

Is the link to join missing? Can't seem to find it...

[Evan E.]

Rene,

I hope this link will work for you:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/bay-area-rivendell-riders

Evan

[René Sterental]

Thanks for adding me. Look forward to being able to join a ride sometime soon. 

René 

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[Jim M.]

On Wednesday, November 11, 2015 at 9:26:06 AM UTC-8, dstein wrote:

I'm looking at three on Bay Area Rides: Mitchell Canyon to the top, Mothers/Diablo Ranch/Buckeye Trails, and Oyster Point trail. I'm assuming these are all fire roads?

Well, no one else has jumped in so I will. They are not all fire roads. Oyster Point is, in fact, all single track. The other rides also include some single track. Riding trails all the way to the top of Diablo is challenging. There are some very steep grades (30% or more) with loose surfaces. 

But I am in no way discouraging any of these rides. Just be prepared for some walking (which itself can be difficult on some of the trails), and for the ride to probably take longer than you estimate. I'd also advise taking some food to prevent bonk.

jim m

foot of mt diablo, ca

[David Stein]

Thanks for the insight Jim! I definitely don't need to go to the top, Juniper might be as far as I need to go if even that. Mostly just looking to explore the trails as a first time thing.

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