dryfj.com / drycyclist.com (kevin cook)

9/22
05982-me-bike-over-narrows-800px.jpg China Hole Trail winds across a meadow on its way up.ThumbnailsA switchback as China Hole Trail climbs through an area of thick chamise chapparal.China Hole Trail winds across a meadow on its way up.ThumbnailsA switchback as China Hole Trail climbs through an area of thick chamise chapparal.China Hole Trail winds across a meadow on its way up.ThumbnailsA switchback as China Hole Trail climbs through an area of thick chamise chapparal.China Hole Trail winds across a meadow on its way up.ThumbnailsA switchback as China Hole Trail climbs through an area of thick chamise chapparal.China Hole Trail winds across a meadow on its way up.ThumbnailsA switchback as China Hole Trail climbs through an area of thick chamise chapparal.

I'm back to walking the 10-ton bike here; it would be too easy to fall down the hill! I climb up the hill to take this photo overlooking the bike on the trail below and The Narrows beyond.

Of course, I'm getting a bunch of tarweed burrs stuck in my socks here off-trail!