You love, love, LOVE your local mountain during winter, but how often do you visit your beloved getaway during the spring and summer seasons? Probably as often as you visit your grandmother. This past season I was turned onto using my year-round Snow Summit & Bear Mountain pass during the snowboarding off season and it was magical. Hello, mountain bike.
It took a moment to get over the fact that I was sitting on the ski lift without a board strapped to my foot. Every time the Sky Chair approached the top of the mountain I joked with my friends, "Tips up! Which way are you guys headed? I'm turning right!" But it was truly a treat to enjoy the mountain in the summer on a mountain bike. Snow Summit shuts down the slopes and opens trails designated and designed for bikes, along with the fire trails.
You can cruise at a pace and path width where you can catch up with a friend, or shoot through a narrow line without the comfort of strong brakes through trees and rocks, and everything in between at Snow Summit. The flowers are in bloom, the views are amazing, and the air is literally a breath of fresh air coming from the developed southern California coast.
I strongly suggest that you check out at your local mountain in the off season. You'll be even more amped on what the mountain has to offer, and heck, you might have already paid for it!
Aloha
