Log feature on an LU Mtn. Rogue Trail
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LU Old School
Part 1 – I have ridden at Candler’s Mountain, or Liberty Mountain as it is now called, since the mid-90’s. Back then it was a wild and woolly big mountain riding experience with heavily-eroded jeep trails, lots of year-round puddles and rocky trails that required zen-like handling skills. Not much pure singletrack, but some really technical ATV trails that rolled straight up and down the hills, leaving many a mountain biker’s lungs behind. The Gonzo factor came courtesy of shifting surfaces due to erosion, rock bars, ruts that were up to three-feet deep in places and red clay pools straight out of the most lurid ’50’s sci-fi. I rode through one such puddle when it couldn’t be avoided, and for the next several weeks, something ate slowly into my thigh, just above the knee. I thought I had encountered that late-90’s media darling flesh-eating bacteria, until it faded away and I still had flesh. Read more…
