Fun ride yesterday in Thousand Oaks. I planned the route by using Strava heat to plot our exploratory ride and found some good stuff, especially the Sheep Corral Trail. I'll be riding that again soon. What wasn't so great was the China Flats Trail coming down the mountain into housing developments. Sadly, my GoPro wasn't capturing the activity. The trail is steep and full of rounded "steps" of about 1 to 2 ft. where the bedrock is exposed. A little bit of this sort of terrain would be a fun challenge, but it just kept going on and on like this. Often, by the time I figured out the line through a "step," I was too close to it and had to either back up or walk the bike down. Over and over. Meanwhile I saw two very studly eMTBers (on a Trek and a Haibike) riding up this madness. eBike-haters like to think that eBikers just relax and let the motor do the work, whereas in my experience, the assistance allows many to tackle climbs outside of the abilities of most mortals. The first rider to pass me was shouting "RAH!" or "COME ON!" when he'd mount one of those rock steps. Most of the images are screen caps from my GoPro with telemetry by the Telemetry Overlay program. Totally ignore the speedometer and slope. Somehow the speedo wouldn't sync right. The location and heading data is correct though.