May 21, 2016

first day of the new summer season with the dirt divas

actually, it's now the dirt divas and dudes, since keira decided to open it up to not just us ladies

we headed out to the sam merrill trailhead, which was just a bit past the eaton canyon entrance in altadena (just through pasadena)

not hard to find at all

these are actually some of the burned down trees leftover from the station fire in 2009, on the idlehour trail

watching lilia follow me down

 whoa!   i ran right into lawrence mcdaniel on the way down idlehour!
he was on his way to inspiration point.
how cool is that, running into someone you know!?

 waiting at the creek crossing...

 i took pictures of everyone coming down the trail =)

 this was actually at a little creek section on idlehour...

the view from right around where we turned around at mile 9

 waiting at the creek again, watching everyone come down the trail  =)
lilia is a great jumper!

on the sam merrill trail, headed back.  that trail below?  that's where we are headed  ;)

these trees are really neat looking

 a quick picture with paulo and lilia
paulo is a BEAST on the downhills.  he was FLYING.  so cool.  i want to be like that.
i heard after the fact from heather that he is a very good spartan racer.  wow.  hardcore.

 the rest of the crew coming down sam merrill to sunset point

 heather is hurting  =(

 picture time!

 i saw this super-cool looking rock on a lookout point and yelled at heater to take a picture of me.
i knew she would take a great one!  she has a good eye! =D

 i have more pictures...but for some reason they aren't yet loading onto my computer.  maybe later.

 i wanted to make my way up to inspiration point.  it's only 0.3 mile up from this junction
it was worth it!!

 look at this really cool pipe pointing at inspiration point.  =p

 a view from the sam merrill trail down to our finish (somewhere down there)

 watching everyone come down the trail to sunset point