by Oz

Riders: Vinylman, Dookie, Oz, Mike (from San Diego) and his GF Rachel (also
from San Diego) MonsterTiki from Corona and his buddy.

Ed (Monstertiki) is a rider from Corona who wanted someone to show him
Sycamore. He brought along his buddy and Charlie, Dookie and I met them at
the shopping center. We went up Farside to Flood Control where Charlie had a
boo boo trying to ride up one of the rocks somewhere in the middle of the
trail. Nothing bad just a bit of blood on his elbow and some road-rash on his
leg. We then went down Roadrunner. Ed hasn't really ridden technical stuff
like at Sycamore (he usually rides Santa Rosa Plateu and Fullerton Loop) so I
think riding on the rocks was a new experience for him. He opted not to ride
the last set of rocks and we continued to McTwist. We continued down the
Nettles and then on N. Arroyo. At the rock face at the bottom of mini-Moab,
just by coincidence we met up with a buddy of mine from San Diego named Mike
and his girlfriend Rachel. Mike is one of the few guys I know who can ride
the giant rock face.....he actually drove all the way to Riverside just to
ride it today and to hit some of the gap jumps at Dookie's Playground.

We all continued on N. Arroyo towards the self-storage then X-Trail to
Dookies. We all sessioned the rock on upper Dookies and I actually rolled off
it today for the very first time. I was so far back behind the seat my rear-
end hit my back tire, but other than that it wasn't as hard as I thought it
was.

Ed was quickly getting comfortable riding the rocks and in a short time he was
cleaning everything rather easily. Then we continued towards lower Dookies
and Dookie hit the first little jump and I followed and then Mike hit the gap
jump. We stopped to play on the rocks some more. At this point Charlie and
Dookie had enough of us "sessioning" and took off to keep their legs moving.
The rest of us continued towards Sewage Treatment then on E/W trail in order
to ride Terry's Wall. After a brief rest at the Boy Scout Bench we went down
Terry's Wall. At the bottom I noticed the shrubs are slowly creating a nice
little tunnel.....I hope nobody decides to trim it completely back.

We then returned on N. Arroyo in order to ride down Mini-Moab. Ed cleaned the
whole thing including O-sh*t rock... At this point Mike and Rachel went their
own way and we continued on FenceLine to the Pepper Trees. We then went down
Rattlesnake to the Bench Trail and finished on the mini-Luge.

total mileage for us was about 16 miles.......with almost zero
backtracking.....there was one mechanical (Ed's buddy busted his chain) but
that was it....