A Ride With All the Trimmings

Visiting the Christmas Tree atop Trabuco

Everyone needs a holiday tradition, and for at least a few OC mountain bikers it is to climb Trabuco and add a few libation-oriented ornaments to the Trabuco Christmas Tree.  If you have never stopped at the tree, it is about a mile below Main Divide Rd. on the Trabuco Trail.  Josh and I rode the trail last Friday, a day with fierce Santa Ana winds.  You may notice the knee pads (please hold the jokes), we were planning on riding Yeager Mesa but opted to return down Trabuco due to the crazy winds.  It was such a great day to ride below the ridgeline, I didn't want to have to hunker down on Los Pinos.  It was gusting hard enough to blow rocks.  I'll save Yeager for another day.  On this day it was nice to do the up and back, and pay our timely respects to the tree.

One more note, because of the crazy winds we were able to go super fast riding out Trabuco Road.  According to Josh's GPS we averaged 37 mph on the last two miles of road.  Happy Holidays indeed.