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Boulders on the AZT

One final shakedown ride before the AZT300 was in order, so I rounded up a few friends and we made the trek out to Freeman Rd. We'd do some cache maintenance, drop some gallons of water & remove all the empties, then do an out-n-back ride on the Boulders segment to Ripsey Ranch.

This is atypical of the AZT, 9+ miles of fast, smooth, flowy singletrack!! Yes, it does exist in Arizona's desert.

Seron and I left my place just after 7a to arrive at the trailhead by 9a. We even spotted a white-tailed deer galloping through the desert. Weird. 5 minutes to spare, we arrived. Soon followed by Leon & Jeff, then Phil and Michelle. This was everyone's first time out on this section of trail. I quickly dropped off the water into the new metal cache and we hit the trail. Posted by John Schilling at 6:00 PM Tags: Arizona Trail, mountain biking



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