Isabella Gamble 2.0
Great Dual Sport Adventure in the Sequoia Forests
Ridden October 2014
Collection of 5 day dual sport ride based in Kernville California
The region around Lake Isabella has great dual sport riding. The area includes the Sequoia Forests with the spectacular giant trees, the Kern River Valley with great singletrack trails, the Breckenridge Mountains with scenic forest roads and trails, the Piute Mountains overlooking the Mojave Desert and of course famous Kennedy Meadows. There are many fantastic rides here from scenic to challenging.
I have put together 5 rides to cover this area: 2 rides are scenic in nature and rated easier or more relaxed, these ride are good for people just wanting a relaxed forest adventure or for beginning riders.
“ Sequoia Big Tree"
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"Breckenridge Lookout ”
(These ride include a lunch stop!)
These rides are scenic in nature and rated easier or more relaxed, these ride are good for people just wanting a relaxed forest adventure or for beginning riders.
“Kern River Trail"
This ride is rated intermediate with some optional harder singletrack sections.
Rider can choose the level of difficulty.
“Piute Mountain"
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"Cannell Trail & Kennedy Meadows"
(Bring lots of WATER and your Lunch
These rides are “Tuff Guy” rated, these include a lot of singletrack and some of it can be challenging.
You should be an advanced rider or an intermediate rider prepared to work for it.
Riders may download the GPS files below from the google maps below or you can purchase the rides on custom microSD cards for you Garmin GPS.
Riders can choose which rides they would like to get.
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Notes: I suggest you plan and order early. Normally I ship within a week. But sometimes I run out and it can take me several weeks to get new cards and maps. And sometimes I am out riding and building new adventures so that can be hard too. I list the Option for 2 SD cards because many riders like to carry a backup card or a cheap backup GPS in the event of unforeseen circumstances.
Ride Details
I know many of you also enjoy dreaming about the ride and making your plans, so here is the detail, enjoy!
View the ride maps below
OK since many of you might like to study more detail about the ride, below are the ride maps.
I put these ride maps on the web page because I know a few of you love looking at the ride detail and dreaming about the ride. At first glance these maps do not look so impressive, but they are way cool. If you click the Earth or Satellite tab and start zooming in, you can see the ride in incredible detail. I have spent a ton of hours sorting through the details of the ride for each day, so for those of you that enjoy this sort of thing, well enjoy!
Legend:
The Blue lines are MAIN routes
The Red lines are Harder routes
The Green lines are Easy options
Video from the first time we did this ride