The Syncline Trail, east of Bingen, WA +A BIG trail system located on the sunny Washington side of the Columbia river smack in the middle of the Columbia River Gorge corridor.

Saratoga Gap Park, Saratoga, CA +Saratoga is also really scenic, if you're into that sort of thing. Of course, like everything else, there's always an upside and downside to it. The upside is that every once in while I actually pay attention to the view and it's really pretty spectacular. So much so that it made this year's BIKE magazine photo annual...

Rockville Park, Cordelia, CA + Rockville isn't all that big (just a few square miles) but it has something on the order of 27 miles of...

Skyline Park, Napa, CA + The mere mention of the word "Napa" conjures up images of vast vineyards and snotty wine aficionados milling around perfectly landscaped winery grounds sniffing corks and being, well, VERY impressed with themselves...

Post Canyon, Hood River, OR + Wow. Post Canyon is a only a couple of miles outside of Hood River, but it might as well be located in Vancouver, BC...

Skeggs Point, Woodside, CA + Mixed emotions. The term conjures up an image of my new Santa Cruz Superlight getting run over by a bus while being ridden by the crackhead who stole it. Skeggs is kind of the same way...

The Braille Trail, Santa Cruz, CA + Soquel Demonstration Forrest is the one place in the SF Bay area where the land managers aren't trying too hard to make the trails safe for the no skill/no balls posers that seem to be everywhere out here...

The Downieville DH, Downieville, CA + The DH course is insane - lots of techinical stuff, water, rocks, dry stuff - every condition in one 16 mile stretch. You shuttle to 7000' feet and...

Northstar at Tahoe, Truckee, CA + If I learned anything this weekend, it's that my Bullit is a great bike for this kind of stuff - but - the 5" travel fork isn't enough...