Mountain Biking - pics from my trip to northstar on july 4th

anyways it was a lot of fun ... havent been in like 2 years. .. fell a couple of times but luckily not on the camera. This is a ski resort that in the summer they do mtn biking at, on with the pics

got my bike on the roof of the subaru
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid68/pe6eaa849502986871bddb396878693bf/fbc0b25b.jpg

cruisin up there passin boreal
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid68/pbf9289ff0d88e1e3585f2b482cdeaab5/fbc0b253.jpg

still snow up there
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid68/p49f41a6a5c20c79e9db99da7bc0e61b5/fbc0b24f.jpg

this new hwy 267 bypass in truckee is nice
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid68/p4c74851d1892168cd6e6b95c8e357aba/fbc0b246.jpg

almost there
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid68/p2c4d60f5b16acbeea70f0801fba8ae74/fbc0b240.jpg

neil and farsheed puttin their stuff on
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid68/p58d6e2168516f8b7d7ec2333bc00da96/fbc0b236.jpg

got my lift ticket .... $30 ... definitley gotta come up here during the week sometime
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid68/p056676f42378f7e7476b6658b9d5714f/fbc0b22f.jpg

sweet jump under the lift
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid68/p39a1956105e6ffa9fb8e0b1097bb92f0/fbc0b227.jpg

believe it or not theres a trail down there
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid68/p132a8d8adb99874e0f3dc70a5d4074c7/fbc0b217.jpg

the valley down there
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid68/p2052138500ca32237ceae6316b246aef/fbc0b212.jpg

I dunno why these people would want to hike at a mtn bike resort but whatever
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid68/p7fcb6ee636777cdb53ea36f75014dead/fbc0b20b.jpg

this guy was goin pretty good
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid68/pe3f3827695ce7ba331cf61aab5a0956e/fbc0b201.jpg

these guys were busy fixin their flat tire under the lift for like an hour
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid68/pcea704324ae8bb4cff891e89e8a56966/fbc0b1f7.jpg

found some snow
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid68/pcc1c989ee860f51eaa6b076202e11240/fbc0b1e8.jpg

somehow i was able to ride down this
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid68/p135ca0b04e6c70b4b03f0b2221a486b5/fbc0b1de.jpg

then a little further down the trail a stick got caught in my wheel and threw me over ... wasnt goin very fast at the time luckily
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid68/pefe8d32d37ed9f19a8b94f775ebaeab2/fbc0b1d7.jpg

hmm ... should i be goin down this trail? :p
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid68/pfcc8d277ae12e69dd7327442907572fb/fbc0b1cd.jpg

the unopened 2 liter of pepsi i found and drank with lunch
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid68/pfc71c4b49237e53ddede6e3dfac69f09/fbc0b1c8.jpg

back up on the hill i fell a few times
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid68/p6355f63b32be1f1a02f10a01e1393ab8/fbc0b1be.jpg

second time i lost my shoe
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid68/pdde6c6999c881fcae81574a8ce343a73/fbc0b1af.jpg

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid68/p15ab5a62ce292001745ef45d86472d08/fbc0b1a9.jpg

then on my last run the lift broke
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid68/p7c1b3b65a616ef4b20cf01445da5687d/fbc0b1a1.jpg

after a while I went ... took the boondocks trail which was so sweet i forgot to take more pics .. so heres my bike on the roof of the subaru
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid68/pcc562007b1f59a55b70ab577efeef643/fbc0b198.jpg

I got some helmet hair goin on
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid68/p1533746ccd3b24a8856815651eb9d5f0/fbc0b18c.jpg

what every honda needs (torque on demand) lol
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid68/p8c26cd528180d049358824cc9f6d321b/fbc0b186.jpg

the car that sticker was on
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid68/p414d0755a95265a5e3e46b1ad3960326/fbc0b17d.jpg

cruisin back
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid68/p1b76d1988cc1745c6ff9f55cca7b039d/fbc0b176.jpg

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid68/p68036829a25a760dc3db678c1166f48d/fbc0b16b.jpg

got the golf cart and a motorcycle
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid68/p7323307a0500e1ac4ea34e7ba4c93cdf/fbc0b166.jpg

pretty hot outside
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid68/pcc582a0c745734ac3e000b8dc498f027/fbc0b149.jpg

damn really hot in sacramento
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid68/pd7a47b7b84d732bc83c672cf20437d45/fbc0b144.jpg

stopped in dixon to gas up the ride
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid68/pc9c737c0e9cf6ca8df3975bbd25e9670/fbc0b140.jpg

now this is what i call shady ... they put the regular in the middle hoping you will accidently put in midgrade or premium
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid68/p3bcf4927d1a6e7a37c5fc55b21ff36d2/fbc0b13d.jpg

and then niel got a water
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid68/p8ef255c4cb214d7ad463865eb96c4fde/fbc0b139.jpg

hope you guys liked my pics :beer:

Have fun in Downieville.
Check out Haypress Valley in Sierra City.
Haskel Peak North of The Buttes has some nice roads/trails/views.

Lots of cool places there.

Nice.

Originally posted by locutus_of_borg
Have fun in Downieville.
Check out Haypress Valley in Sierra City.
Haskel Peak North of The Buttes has some nice roads/trails/views.

Lots of cool places there.

i did quite a bit of riding out near haskell last year ... drove around in the civic too it was hella dirty lol ... passed these people in an explorer and they were like WTF?

Cool bike, cool pepsi find, cool car, cool riding place.....your pics rule!!


Edit: OH THAT WASNT YOUR CAR? then your pics suck! lol jk:D

Sweet pics! :cool: Literally LOL @ the helmet hair :lol:

Originally posted by Melt
i did quite a bit of riding out near haskell last year ... drove around in the civic too it was hella dirty lol ... passed these people in an explorer and they were like WTF?

I used to go all over that place in a Ford Festiva! Haskell has a lot of cool places that are very out of the way and the road network will take you to all kinds of places. Once I accidentally dropped in on the White Hawk Golf course. I was just cruisin through the trees on no trail at all and all of the sudden I was on the golf course.

Originally posted by locutus_of_borg
Once I accidentally dropped in on the White Hawk Golf course. I was just cruisin through the trees on no trail at all and all of the sudden I was on the golf course.

I've done that to quite a few golf courses. There's one exclusive golf course that's adjacent to the trails right near my house and the golfers there get really surly when I take a wrong turn and pop out of wooded singletrack right onto their pristine green. Ewps. :rolleyes:

Yeah, pictures are spectacular. :)

The stick in the fork looks nasty... hope you didn't break any spokes... or err.. parts of your body.

thanks for all the comments guys.

yeah the subaru isnt mine ... heres a pic of my civic I took today
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid68/pec685b904383ca6304bf819e6ae9ad7d/fbc09c70.jpg

and the stick in the fork threw me pretty good but luckily i was goin pretty slow when that happened ... i love goin to northstar though ... hopefully i can go a few more times before winter.

Nice pics. The captions are good too haha :beer:

Northstar looks a lot different in the summer; thanks for the pix! When we used to ski there, we called it Flatstar. Probably not so flat on the seat of a bike, though, eh?

I hardly ever go to northstar in the winter cause its so damn expensive! Go to boreal and donner ski ranch most of the time cause there are hardly ever lines cause its so small. Its great mtn biking in the summer though ... lift ticket is like $30 on the weekends and pretty cheap in the week ... defintiley gotta go again before winter.

Nice picture story, but where's the bloody pictures from the falls? :D Thanks for posting!

man there was so much dust you couldnt even see the blood!

Sweet pics melt! I'm going now ...

aight.

i wonder how long that pepsi was sitting there...............

Originally posted by mindbogger
i wonder how long that pepsi was sitting there...............

I like how the label is sun-bleached. And isn't that the old-style logo too? :eek:

Nice job!

what camera did you use to take the pictures? how did you cary it on the bike?

you are a braver man than I for taking your digi cam on a DH bike trip. id be afraid id smash mine up. maybe i could get one of those cheapo $100 ones that im always getting spam about. or just make use of my scanner! :D

nice pics though, looks like fun

Originally posted by Luken8r
you are a braver man than I for taking your digi cam on a DH bike trip. id be afraid id smash mine up. maybe i could get one of those cheapo $100 ones that im always getting spam about. or just make use of my scanner! :D

nice pics though, looks like fun

Overstock.com has some mad-cheap digital cameras (http://www.overstock.com/cgi-bin/d2.cgi?PAGE=CATLIST&PRO_SUB_CAT=222&PRO_SSUB_CAT=68) right now. The trick is finding one that's small/lightweight, at least 1MP, has enough memory or expandable capacity for at least 50 shots (at a reasonable resolution/quality) and has a flash (very important because MTB activities often occur in low-light conditions such as in the woods) for under $100 which is the upper bound price of what I consider to be "expendable".

These look promising although some maybe a bit big/bulky/heavy...

http://www.overstock.com/cgi-bin/d2.cgi?PAGE=PROFRAME&PROD_ID=461143
http://www.overstock.com/cgi-bin/d2.cgi?PAGE=PROFRAME&PROD_ID=495229
http://www.overstock.com/cgi-bin/d2.cgi?PAGE=PROFRAME&PROD_ID=247102
http://www.overstock.com/cgi-bin/d2.cgi?PAGE=PROFRAME&PROD_ID=160506
http://www.overstock.com/cgi-bin/d2.cgi?PAGE=PROFRAME&PROD_ID=466448
http://www.overstock.com/cgi-bin/d2.cgi?PAGE=PROFRAME&PROD_ID=373566

maybe ill just replace the USB cable to my scanner that my rabbit chewed through. screw digi cam, i can just get a $8 kodak throwaway job. not a bad idea indeed

Originally posted by Luken8r
maybe ill just replace the USB cable to my scanner that my rabbit chewed through. screw digi cam, i can just get a $8 kodak throwaway job. not a bad idea indeed

The problem with disposable cameras is the inability to adjust the shutter for action shots. Every moving shot you take ends up like a colored blur on an odd landscape.

Originally posted by DiL
The problem with disposable cameras is the inability to adjust the shutter for action shots. Every moving shot you take ends up like a colored blur on an odd landscape.

What about picking a camera that's preloaded with faster ISO to influence the shutter speed and/or low-light conditions?