We’d heard good things about Iron Mountain for over a year so Josh,
Morgan, Don and I sucked it up and drove 120 miles to San Diego County,
trudged three miles up the mountain and rode the twisting, rocky
single-track down. A nice run with some good rolling.
However, wanting more, we took a detour on the way down – the
inauspicious-sounding Ellie Lane Trail and after a mile hike up yet
another mountain, we found ourselves on the Ramona Overlook and a
seldom-traveled singletrack, rocky, twisting, narrow, and steep, with
ample ledge drops—all told, a gauntlet (guidebooks call it a 19-degree
grade) that made Iron Mountain seem like the Venice Bikepath. Some
sections were not rollable owing to drops and steepness, twisting
hairpin turns and off-camber ledges, and these became challenging
natural trials runs. Owing to fatigue we started walking around stuff
toward the bottom. When we got back to the car we’d been going pretty
much non-stop for almost five and a half hours. We were cooked.
Hope to go back there sometime soon and ride just the Ellie Lane loop.
That’s one of the great ones in So Cal.
Pics to come.
JL
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