Last Sunday's ride started as typical one. We planned to take our usual route via Pangarap -> Licao-licao -> Tungko. Nothing technical, we surmised the Mahogany 1 and 2 trails would be too muddy for our biking pleasure (don't get me wrong, we love muds on our bikes hehe).

There was something atypical about our typical ride, the Pangarap route is a favorite Sunday morning trail for mountain bikers but there were no other groups except us. Or so we thought.

While taking a pit stop in Kapitan's place in Mahogany another group arrived. (Kapitan's place is a favorite rest stop for bikers. You can have meals cooked there.) Three of the 5 bikers in that group were old acquaintances, and of the three, 2 were well known (popular, notorious maybe hehe) trail masters among the PMTB folks. So our bordering to boring "I already know all the turns and bumps" ride headed to some new promising trails.

After taking our lunch in Licao licao terminal, we proceed to the real "Jackhammer trail" - 1 km or so of pure fork pounding fun. The one I referred to before as the "Jackhammer trail" is just an "extension" of the real one.


The we hit the downhill rush of Daang Diablo (Devil's Trail). Its my second time to take that trail and my first time to do an "endo". I overestimate by fork's capacity and my ability to do some tricky balance. Good thing I was not going too fast. Nothing's hurt, except my pride hehe. Not even a scratch ... on my bike :D.

The best part of the day was doing the scenic downhill single track in Tungko. You are greeted with a wide open space - a sea of cogon grass.


But don't let the nice scenery suck you in, the single track has some nasty sections that can produce "tumble downs" if you are not careful. Good thing the track was not slippery with mud.


I couldn't resist on doing some ethereal effect post processing on one of the photos :


The last segment of the Tungko downhill single track was a muddy, a real "mud up to your knee" muddy trail.


At the end of the ride we got mud in every imaginable parts of our bike and maybe in some unimaginable parts of our body :D. But mud is good. The more mud, the happier we are :).

Till the next ride...