Sat: >20 mile easy loop de loop soul ride around Palm springs with the Daddio.
Sun: ~1 hr trail run with the whole Fam the morning of my Sisters Wedding. East Licken trail in Palm Springs. Lower part with between 12 & 18% grades, then smooth along the top. Daddio played sweeper and hiked along.
Monday: Hit up Dunn road for a little Action about 1.5 hr ride time (limited because I had no water and no spare tube). Surprising technical single tracks that criss crossed the way down the fire road. Got lost and stuck on the side of a cliff for a minute, hiked back to the trail.
Dunn Road
In the 1960's, Mike Dunn illegally cut this road thru the Santa Rosa Mountains from Hwy 74 south to Cathedral City. He was speculating on land development that never happened. After many years of erosion in several areas, the road today is impassable except by horse, foot, or MTB. The 4 mile ride up to equestrian picnic tables and an abandon bulldozer is very challenging with only the fittest cyclists able to clean the entire road.
Just west of the intersection of Channel Dr. and Carroll Dr. in Cathedral City, there is a locked gate at the start of the road. This is the southwest corner of Cathedral City Cove, a housing area on the hillside south of Hwy 111 past the end of Cathedral Canyon Dr.
Please note that the lower part of the road goes thru private land and this constitutes trespassing, so the Desert Bicycle Club does not promote or recommend you riding this part of the road. There are other ways to get to the upper part where the best riding is located
My Plan is to hit this same trail up tomorrow with Water and Spare tire and ride up to Murray Peak.
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