Topanga Fire Road overlook with Hoffman
Someone put up two hammocks for people to enjoy. It was awesome!
On Sunday I did a ride with Hoffman in the Santa Monica mountains. It started right out of Santa Monica on a 2100' fire road climb and descended on the Backbone trail to Will Rogers park. It was one of the best singletracks I've been on. Amazing time.
I met Hoffman many years ago through our mutual rock climbing friends. We never climbed together but have run into each other at random places. I ran into him years ago surfing at Trestles the one time I was there but I don't even think we even surfed together. I think I was going in as he was coming out. Then we ran into each other at a cyclocross race a couple months ago and found out that he's been mountain biking for a while. We made some plans and this is our second ride together and realize that I relate to fellow climbers the best. We both realized that climbers tend to give it a go more often than others. I've found out that Hoffman's signed up for Vision Quest in a couple of months (80+ mile mountain bike ride with 12,000' of climbing) and I wanted to do that too. He's also done the Everest Challenge which I want to do. I've done several double centuries and he wants to do some. My hairbrain mountain bike ideas that I tell co-workers which get eye rolls gets accepted by him. I guess rock climbing does attract a certain personality type and also has taught us that we can push our limits.
