 I'm Austin. I'm Trace. And this is Pure Cycle's Underrated Routes. Where we going to that? We're going to a waterfall today. Yeah, a waterfall. We got NASA JPL, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in the background, and we're about to take you on an underrated route. And Trace is going to tell you what we're doing. Yeah, so we just parked at JPL. The trail is just a quick out and back on the Royal Trail. It goes up to a dam, which is the Brown Mountain Dam. Definitely some beautiful fall colors right now, which is why we like riding it. There's stream crossings about probably like two miles into it. Then it starts to get more and more stream crossings and more and more like rockier. But for the most part, it's a pretty steady, pretty steady out and back. Yeah. So pretty killer trail and looking forward to showing you how awesome it actually is. Alrighty, so we are we're heading down the road. Just left the parking lot area and we got about a mile or so of pavement, some nice flat, slightly uphill sections. And it's just beautiful. We're just cruising into the canyon, getting into nature. Also a thing to note, it's a great place to escape to on a really hot day in LA because say about 70% of the canyon that we're about to go into is shaded during a sunny day. So yeah, it's pretty much covered. It's a little chilly actually right now on this fall, November morning here. Yeah, chilly 63 degrees. But it's a nice Friday morning. This is a heavily trafficked area though too. So like there's a lot of dogs on leashes, they're supposed to be, at least. They're sometimes not. You can't blame dog owners for wanting to let their dogs run free. But yeah, you got to watch out for dogs and runners and hikers. You got to be courteous, share the trail. There's a lot of other mountain bikers out here too. And a lot of mountain bikers. Yeah. Look at this. They got fun little side trail stuff. And look, we got the blessing this morning to open the gate. Look at that. Good morning. Right now I'm currently riding the new Pure Cycles Adventure Apex. We've got some 650B wheels on there and some 2.0, 275 by 2.0 tires. So we're sitting flush. Got mega grip. From the parking lot, it's about a mile up the broken up pavement, up to the start of the dirt. But kind of starts to break up a little more. You really can't complain when you're biking on this pavement. It's a nice warm up little precursor starter before we get to the fun stuff. Already you can see, you know, we're only like six minutes into the ride. And we're already back in this shaded canyon. Slightly colder, but slightly more beautiful. So we are entering the gold Mesa campground. We're about two miles in, so we're halfway there. But this is a great place to come and camp if you're just looking for an easy bike or hike in. Two miles in, you've got this beautiful campground in the Arroyo down here in the canyon. All right. Good morning. Nice hat. Go Eagles. Really kind of opens up after the campground. Perfect dirt. Cool little bridge. Nice and flowy. It's always a little rock drop though. Almost went into the log. Pre-crossing number five, five, six. It's kind of a landmark up here. Definitely. One of my favorite spots to kind of be like, where are you at? What part of the trail? I'm at the Blue Wheel Barrel. This is the tech part. We're coming into very tech. So we'll try to clear it. Oh, man. Oh, man. I almost owe TBed. I'm going to have to bleep that out just to give you a little view of what we just came through. It was pretty gnarly. Very technical little rock pop up. That was definitely the most tech pre-crossing. But on a scale of like the most tech features on this trail, that's probably number two. The most technical section and we got an audience so we can't mess up. No way I'm going to do this. I'm going to crash. Let's go. A little tough today. A little tough. I'm going to hike a bike this section. A couple of hike a bike marks. I almost cleaned it, but not really. But I'll take the A for effort. Oh, blast it up. And now I'm officially soaked. Another creek crossing. Time to fall a little. Fall a little picnic area. This beautiful open space right up ahead. Here we go. All right. Fall a little. Fall a little picnic area. We are almost to the waterfall. The dam. We're so close you can almost hear it. Wet, squeaky breaks. I mean, this is all it's heavy as hell. Pull it up to the waterfall. All right. We're leaving the dam and we're starting the cruise back down, which is mostly downhill. Very slippery. Did not get it. Rocky straight into the creek crossing to a sandy loose corner. Totally flowy through here again. Super fast part. Nice little wheelie popping part. Nice little b-line through there. First one. Back here at the campground. Back to the campsite. Killer little downhill there. Definitely a killer downhill. Flowy, rocky, jumpy, takes you across. And you guys will have a blast coming out here. It is such a great ride. I like the way the steel frame feels through here. It holds through the really surfy sandy stuff well. The steel just soaks it all up. Blast creek crossing. Kind of a nice little blast to end you before you get back to the car. Oh, we hope you all enjoyed this episode of underrated routes. Austin and I sure love this little backyard area of ours. It's pretty close to our work. You know, it's easy to get to from the city and it's just kind of that perfect little getaway into some nature. Join us next time as we take you a little bit deeper inside of some underrated routes in Los Angeles so you can check them all out.