Went up to San Juan today. I had never ridden the trail before and was excited to go. The trail is amazing. I loved every part of it and was really surprised by the quality of the ride. It has a bit of everything. Woods, check. Technical climbing and descending, check. Swtichbacks, check. Beautiful scenery, check. Exposure, checkity check. I will go ahead and say that whenever anyone wants to ride this trail, I am down. The climb up is not as bad as everyone makes it out to be. We started at the bottom and made our way to Cocktail Rock, then descended(sorta), then made our way to Bluejay Campground, then back around to Cocktail Rock[the climb back up to Cocktail Rock kicks serious ass, (read)very technical climbing], then we descended back to which we came. Did I already say that this was a great ride, well I'll say it again. Totals for the ride were: 21 miles with 3983 feet of climbing. Enjoy the pics:



The famous switchbacks



This is the most interesting man in the world

Me and Curley



Curley on one of the many switchbacks





B-rad's there, can you see him?

Three more of the posse

One of the many great views

Cool rock formation

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Nice RR champ!

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Sweet....probably my favorite trail. If I was not laid up with a bum knee I would be down.
Now do it single

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I was going to do it on the SS today, but I un-trued the front wheel on my 29'er yesterday(if you know what I mean).

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A group of us will be there on the 29TH, and you are welcome to join us.

Thanks for the RR

beautiful pictures...that one switchback looks nasty.

Love that ride. Glad you enjoyed it.

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This how sauve Curly is.

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Pretty much the same exact route Evdog, Sladnas, and I took on Sat. We took Old San Juan at Cocktail rock up to Blue Jay, then took new SJT back. We tried finding Viejo Tie Trail off the top part of Chiquito, but we couldn't find it so we jumped back on SJT.