{"id":533,"date":"2013-05-26T01:35:54","date_gmt":"2013-05-26T01:35:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.werideourbikes.com\/?p=533"},"modified":"2014-01-04T19:11:36","modified_gmt":"2014-01-05T00:11:36","slug":"2013-bear-creek-super-d-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.werideourbikes.com\/?p=533","title":{"rendered":"2013 Bear Creek Super D preview"},"content":{"rendered":"

I planned a trip for this holiday weekend to accomplish two things, pre-ride the new Super D course at Bear Creek<\/a> while getting some climbing in and to ride at Launch Bike Park<\/a>. I was going to do this on a Saturday but the weather didn’t cooperate so Sunday was the day. What a perfect day for it too!

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Almost at the top of Bear Creek Resort.<\/p><\/div> I didn’t get out of the house as early as hoped but I still managed to get to the first destination before 11am after my 2hr drive. <\/p>\n

Riding Bear Creek<\/h4>\n

The goal of the first leg of my trip was to pre-ride the Super D course. I have ridden a different Super D course at Bear Creek<\/a> the last two years but since the USAC Nationals will be held at Bear Creek this and next year, they changed a couple of things and added a new finish.
\nMy plan was to ride the course three times, that would have given me some good experience on the rocky sections. I wound up doing two runs since I wanted to get over to Launch to ride more rocks! The course isn’t marked so I was going off of a map that I grabbed at GPSbikemaps.com<\/a> which can be seen here<\/a>. I was happy with the runs I got in and was able to scope out lines through the rocks in the upper portion of the course. I didn’t give a full effort but tried to push it in some sections. There is a lot of pedaling required for this course so I’m sure the XC people will have a good time with the course as long as they are cool with technical rocky down hill sections.<\/p>\n

I shot a POV of the course (below) at high noon during my second run down the mountain so the sun and shade hide the rocks in the video. For those that have never ridden at Bear Creek<\/a>, it’s very rocky terrain in parts as you can tell by the jiggle of the camera. Also a very “peddaly” course. I sped up the video during the first climb on the access road. I “think” I missed a turn at the 3:25 mark that is another way to connect to a piece of single track that I wind up riding (minor difference from where I wound up going). This section takes you down to the top of the bone yard gravel road which is at the 4:10min mark.
\nAround the 10:43 mark I went the wrong way onto the pavement. According to the map it looks like the course will stay left at this point and stay along a hill side then drop right on to the gravel road in front of the resort. <\/p>\n