Beginners Ride: Grasslands to the Dam

http://photos4.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/1/0/f/6/event_199564342.jpegJoin us for a beginner and slow intermediate ride through beautiful Malibu Creek State Park (http://www.venturacountytrails.org/TrailMaps/MalibuCreek/AreaTrails.htm) to one of the icons of 1970's television, the MAS*H site, and then continue a little further to the dam that holds back Malibu Lake.

Starting from De Anza Park in Calabasas, we’ll bike over to Malibu Creek State Park via the Grasslands Trail. Once inside the park, we will proceed along the main fireroad that leads up to Crags Road, which passes through a fairly short but technical rocky streambed (some of the technical parts can be rideable, but you can walk this area to be on the safe side). After a short stop at the MAS*H area, we continue on to the dam. We’ll retrace our tracks that take us back to De Anza Park.

Helmets are mandatory and please bring a two-way radio if you have one, set at 5/25, it helps keep the group together. No rider gets left behind.

Endurance Rating = E2.5, Technical Rating = T3, 12 Miles and 1400 Feet of Climbing , About 2.5 Hours

Directions (http://maps.google.com/maps?q=De+Anza+Park,+Lost+Hills+Road,+Agoura+Hills,+CA&hl=en&sll=34.126617,-118.707167&sspn=0.050801,0.066862&oq=de+anza&vpsrc=0&hnear=Lost+Hills+Rd,+Los+Angeles,+California&t=m&z=17): Take the 101 Freeway to the Lost Hills Road exit in Calabasas. At the end of the off-ramp proceed south toward the ocean. Park in the lot for DeAnza Park located on the northwest corner of Lost Hills and Las Virgenes Roads.

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