Online registration ends on 10/31/24 at 7:00pm
Bring your Lights for a Crank Sisters Spooky Halloween Night Ride at Grand Ridge, Beginner-Mediate
This ride is for anyone who identifies as female. Crank Sisters has a no-drop policy. We will regroup often with your ride leader. Please note we are starting at Central Park.
Holiday colors, festive lights, and costumes encouraged!
Sign Our Waiver:
Before you RSVP for this ride, please sign the waiver (new waiver each calendar year) at https//.www.evergreenmtb.org/my/waiver: Right click and click open in new window. This waiver needs to be signed once a year. When you click the link, it will tell you whether you have signed this year. If not, it will give you a link to sign it. Please RSVP at least 4 hours before the ride.
Please text Leslie Morgan, the event organizer and one of the ride leaders, at 206-255-2188 if you have to cancel within two hours of the ride.
About the Ride:
What better way to celebrate Halloween then to dress up in your best costume (for your bike and yourself!) and make it spooky with a night ride! Night riding puts a whole new spin on the good-old trails. Bring your lights (one for your handlebar & one for your helmet) & we'll pedal around Grand Ridge.
We'll meet at 5:00, then after a quick intro, bike check, and photos of our cool costumes, we'll hit the trails. Please be on time; we can't wait longer than 15 minutes for late riders to arrive.
Trail Description:
Grand Ridge has wider flowy trails with a handful of green/easy blue technical bits here and there in the form of corners or roots, but they are easy to see in advance to either ride around or walk over them. We will cross a couple large wood bridges and there is some gradual climbing with some fun downs.
We'll start from Central Park and pedal past the tennis courts, entering Grand Ridge Park onto Coal Mine Trail. Head east and connect to East Fork Trail, connect with Flowing Fir Loop trail, Spruce Coaster Trail, stay to the right onto Len's Trail, then staying left onto Sam Dog Creek Trail before connecting again to East Fork, Coal Mine, and back to the parking lot. Trail names are per the most recent online King County Grand Ridge park map.
Distance: Approximately 5 to 6 miles.
Directions:
1907 NE Park Dr, Issaquah, WA 98029. Meet at the end of the parking lot on the way to the start of the gravel trail.
Map Pin: https://maps.app.goo.gl/91unxQ5eNREMji1C6
Restroom: sometimes the restrooms are open and at times they aren't - so make sure you're all taken care of!
Conditions for Cancellation:
(Heavy wind, lightning, flooding etc.) If a ride must be canceled, the ride leader will attempt to contact anyone signed up by 3pm the day before the ride.
Ride Leader Contact Info:
Please contact Leslie Morgan, event organizer, at 206-255-2188 with any questions.
Suggested Equipment:
A mountain bike in good working order, two lights (one for your handlebar & one for your helmet), pack, helmet, snack, water, tools, pump/CO2 & a tube that fits your bike, so you can repair a flat if you get one. Knee & elbow pads are optional.