Review Date
February 6, 2006

Overall Rating
 3 of 5

Aerobic Difficulty
 3 of 5

Technical Difficulty
 0 of 5

Ridden Trail:
Once a month

Reviewed by: scottay ,  Weekend Warrior

Summary:
http://www.clipdin.com/forum/index.php?topic=134

Review Date
October 10, 2005

Overall Rating
 4 of 5

Aerobic Difficulty
 4 of 5

Technical Difficulty
 4 of 5

Ridden Trail:
Once a month

Reviewed by: Ub3rnoid ,  Weekend Warrior

Summary:
Its a wonderful trail and a good workout. The uphills not bad
but make sure your ready for an hour and a half to two hour up hill. If you ride regularly you should be fine. The down hills a hoot but its a little over grown. Its not to technical, just a lot of ruts you need to ride down the middle on. Watch out for hikers and have fun.

Recommended Route:
Take the 5 north and get on the 14. Exit the 14 at San Fernado and you can see the parking area. Really ez to get back to after the ride. Turn left on Placarita and keep riding till you hit the freeway.

Review Date
August 17, 2005

Overall Rating
 4 of 5

Aerobic Difficulty
 4 of 5

Technical Difficulty
 4 of 5

Ridden Trail:
Ridden Once

Reviewed by: SS Barby ,  Racer

Summary:
Rode this and Viper yesterday. Rode from San Fernando Canyon Rd park and rode. Fireroad is in great shape. Rode on my SS in a 32:16 gear ratio, a little tough for me, wish I rode maybe 32:18. Took me about a hour to the Wilson Canyon saddle/ Los Pinetos trailhead. Wow! What a descent, couldn't beat the oak tree canopy. The bridge across the washout is a little sketchy. Talked to a local hiker, they said the forest service is supposed to build a better bridge. After the bridge the trail gets really rutted and overgrown. Rode down to the nature center tried to hang out there for a little bit but got attacked by knats. Decidedto go back up to the top so I could descend the Viper singletrack. Too steep and overgrown for me and my singlespeed for the climb back out. Very doable on a geared bike. The knats attacked me all the way back to the top. I guess I was just riding to slow. Nice ride though. Would much rather just ride down to bridge turnaround and ride back to top and then finish off with Viper

Recommended Route:
go north on 5 freeway to 14 north, get off of San Fernando Canyon Rd and park in park in ride on the right. See that fireroad ride up it for about 4 1/2 miles to the Wilson Canyon saddle. There are bathrooms up there. The trailhead is off to the left of the fireroad. There is a post with a "MOST DIFFICULT" placard. Enjoy the descent. Eather turnaround and climb back up or go right on main trail and head to Placerita Canyon rode go left ride to freeway and under to Sierra Highway and back to San Fernando Canyon rode make a left and back to your car.

Other recommended trails in the same area:
Viper, Vasquez Rocks, Drop In Boquet Motorcycle trail

Review Date
February 14, 2005

Overall Rating
 4 of 5

Aerobic Difficulty
 2 of 5

Technical Difficulty
 2 of 5

Ridden Trail:
Every few months

Reviewed by: Soul Rider ,  Weekend Warrior

Summary:
From what I know the Los Pinetos trail is closed 1 mile down the trail.

You allowed to ride only on the upper part of the trail and to the signs marked "no bicycles", if they are not there they have been vandalized and riped out.

I have a feeling that these trails are deemed as open only because there is nobody around to inforce them.

Give 'er!

As far as dropping off from the top of the mtn above the fire station,

give me a break. That's a trail huh?

Some of you peps need to get out and ride more areas. Stop smoking the spleef and get a backbone!

This is just a slow growing fire break from a fire a few years back but for the most part worthless for the sweat you pay to "RIDE TO THE TOP". You shuttlers are a bunch of lazy saps. This is how every area I know gets shut down. Use it and abuse it but you never pay your dues to deserve it! Possuers!

I cut the first lines down VIPER some 20 years ago. Everytime I went there, even to this day, was by bike. NO SHUTTLES on NIKE!

Even so the shuttle is some 30 minutes. I can climb up San fernando in 15 minutes more and I will live 15 years longer because I do.

Recommended Route:
Ride up San Fernando. It is a 45 minute climb, pretty consistant. Once you start descending you will run into some eqestrain tie-off pionts. This is an obvious landmark. If you go back the way you came to the high piont, look out towards the North. You can see a ridge line busting back down towards Canyon country. This is VIPER. From the Equestrian tie-off piont, there is a trail that dropps directly off the left side of the road. This trail is legal and a super fun, but short rip down to Los Pinetos water tank. It has been claimed that some of the rare indangered spotted owls have a nest here. I could find it. Now if you turn left here and go down you will reach the "NO BICYCLES" sign within a mile. Supposedly this is the grey area. Mid-week, I've never seen anybody. But back about 10 years ago a mtn bike rider came around one of those fast fun turns and scared a girl off of her horse and she was seriously injured. That's when the signs got posted. You can run into huge groups on the weekends on this section of trail. My recommendation would be to climb up the right fork and back to the Santa Clara Truck road.

Other recommended trails in the same area:
Viper or Olive View Fire road. It a super cool XC full suspension ripper.

For the most part, if you ride a DH bike up here you are indeeed a possuer!

Review Date
July 16, 2004

Overall Rating
 4 of 5

Aerobic Difficulty
 3 of 5

Technical Difficulty
 3 of 5

Ridden Trail:
Ridden Once

Reviewed by: mtnrider ,  Weekend Warrior

Summary:
I haven't ridden this trail in years. It was in great shape. I rode right before dark and there was some mosquitoes and lots of gnats under the trees/wooded areas. I'll have some clear lens glasses for next time. The trail is 5 miles down and 4 up from San Fernando road/down 3.8 if you shuttle. It has a lot of jumps/rollers and not much erosion so I thought it was pretty fast rolling/easy condtions.