Mc Kenzie River Trail

A long time ago I was searching youtube for mountain bike movies and I came across this trail by typing Mountainbike Oregon into the search engine. I almost forgot about it but when Andrew told me last that he is going to do it I thought we should include it in our trip. The Mc Kenzie Trail is a 27 Mile (43 km) trail, and it is 98% single trail, pretty amazing to ride the whole day on a single trail.

Kerstin at the trail head.

Clear Lake, the water was more than clear. I don't think that I have seen such clean water.

Kerstin crossing a bridge at the end of the lake.

The new tires look pretty sexy / fast!

The Mc Kenzie River

Nice waterfall and rainbow below. I talked later to a white water kayaker who gave me a ride back to our car and he mentioned nobody has done this waterfall yet. So it is your turn Arndt!

Another amazing waterfall.

So when I started to date Kerstin my mum was happy because she thought I would do less stupid things like falling off a mountain, a bike or something else. Well, this happened but we still do that kind off stuff, the person who falls now off or down is Kerstin. Actually only her bike fell down, she just climbed down to get it.

My rig, not the perfect bike for here but with the new tires it is a lot better.

The Mc Kenzie River has a lot of different sections. Before this lake there was no river, there was just a huge meadow where everything was a sump, I guess the valley opened up so the water hat more space to spread. This lake is where the river started again.

Kerstin enjoying the ride on her new (well, not anymore new) bike.

She rode stuff down which she would have not walked about a year ago.

There were also sections where she managed to get up and I didn't. Don't want to sound arrogant but with my 15 years of shredding experience (five of the on the hardest terrain in the best place on earth :-)) I was more than impressed, a bit jealous. Perhaps it is not only the new bike, perhaps it is talent.

Some big trees, I think some of them were old growth or native or what ever you call that, at least a couple hundred years old.

Some bridge engineering. I am still wondering how they lifted that heavy beast onto the bearings in the middle of nowhere.

We met some really nice people from Santa Rosa, CA. We rode the rest of the trail with them and they are going to show us some trails in their home town next week, pretty excited, www.trailmonger.com.

On the way home we had an amazing sunset and could see some amazing volcanos.

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