For this days ride, Damifino would be on the menu. It is too fun a trail not to ride. We parked at the trailhead on Schnebly Hill road where the pavement ends, and peddled up the road to the Cow pies trailhead. It is over 2.5mi and makes a good warmup, but after 6 days of riding I was planning to take it easy on the climb.
Gman and 406 were waiting for me at the trailhead
Moving on past the vortex
Climbing cowpies
Looking up where the rock climbers were headed
Self portrait by Gman
Riding the ledge over to the saddle
Thats definitely a dab
Gman gets a pic of me rolling
Gman likes the off-camber stuff
As does 406
Passing a big patch of cacti
Over to the next ledge section
Gman makes a valiant effort and was fortunate enough to have his 5-10s on
More off camber
A sad occasion...this is the last picture even taken by my trusty camera. It froze with the lens out and would not retract ....RIP Canon sd1000!
Looking up at where we'll be shortly (pic by Gman)
Awww..... (pic by Gman). I'm pretty sure this was a circle last year...
Both 406 and Gman offered their cameras to me so I would not go thru withdrawal.
Gman poses
406 momentarily distracted by the view
Gman rides toward the end of the ridge
But stops briefly for another pic
Before riding on
We cross as far as we could up high then realize we had crossed too far
406 goes back and tries a line he'd spotted
406 finds a nice photo op at the bottom of the rock
Cruising the ledge to get to it
and...dropping
On to the steep bottom part of damifino
406 makes it despite long turning radius
And then onto the trail's final steep
Some members of last year's trip are wishing we had known about this bridge at the time, only 100 feet upstream of where damifino dumps out.
We take a break at Grasshopper Pt overlooking Oak Creek
Starting off for more, we will continue across 89A to Wilson Tr
406: we're going that way
We eventually get onto Jordan trail, which was rolling and fun with some really challenging sections to climb
Rock bathed in late afternoon sun
I stopped for one more pano...the pic really doesn't do justice how pretty this was
We had a fair road pedal back to Schnebly Hill road and got back just as the sun set. After changing and downing a beer, we were off for more hot tub action and dinner. Another awesome day of riding in Sedona. Damifino and hangover have got to be 2 of my favorite trails anywhere. And the Wilson to __ to Jordan route we took after is much more fun than taking Huckaby trail back, and offers much greater chance for connecting to the rest of the trail network too.
