Explored some trails that I knew were gnarly but ended up being WAY gnarlier than I could’ve imagined - Mile and Burn Side. Boy Scout had some gnarly stuff too. At one point on Boy Scout, I wasn’t sure which way Mike went and for some stupid reason I decided I was going the wrong way as I was heading up this shear ramp. I should’ve just created it but stopped just short and ended up falling down backwards. I thought I was stabbed in the back by a branch but Mike says it’s just a big red scratch. I haven’t seen it myself. Mile Trail before was straight up, steep, UCI Downhill, rock gardens that I had trouble even walking down, the drops were so big. Somehow I survived it. Burn Side was also loose, steep, rocky, singletrack on the side of the mountain. I slightly pulled something in my right foot trying to unclip for a crazy steep switchback and sort of catching myself from falling down it. It was fun and some of it was totally doable if I hadn’t stopped just before. If I didn’t have to walk so much of it, we would’ve finished the ride before sunset. As it was it was starting to get dark on the trail and Mike’s light wasn’t working so we only had mine. We ended up taking Hwy 1 back to McNee Ranch since we didn’t know what the rest of the trail was like. Better safe than sorry. Oh well, don’t need to do a lot of that stuff ever again until I become a pro mountain biker.