So teaching web design has many perks (I get to learn new technology, I get to share what I learn, I am never bored with a room full of pure teenage energy), but I hadn’t thought about how it might help by mountainbiking.
I just found out that there’s a network of mountainbiking trails just outside of town, called Horning’s Hideout. I’ve asked various friends and cycling shops of places to go, and the closest anyone would mention was Scappoose, Stub Stewart State Park, or Forest Park.
Forest Park is the closest (or so I thought), but it’s either almost flat or a fireroad that drops straight down, which forces you to either start by divebombing and then of course, having to turn around and climb a steep pitch (not my kind of fun), or begin with a steep pitch. If there was single track that had something in between the two extremes, that would be different.
But now, through a student’s blog entry, I have discovered that there’s a network of trails in my backyard, so to speak. Horning’s Hideout Just north of highway 26 as you’re leaving Hillsboro (in North Plains).
I’ll have to check it out, and I’ll post on how it was.