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Granny's House & 187: A Great 2-fer!

Marc Marti blurs past the log cabin that gives Granny's House its name.

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Trail name(s): Granny's House, 187
Difficulty rating: Neither Granny's House or 187 are terribly technical if you stay on the trail and/or steer around any scary stuff you come to. For the more adventurous, there are several interesting jumps, an old grown cedar "thing" and the Causeway Rock on 187.
Elevation gain/loss: 100 feet
Best riding direction: Rides well both ways
Best seasons: Gets heavy use all year long. Once in the winter of 2004, I thought I was the only one crazy enough to ride it in four inches of wet new snow, but no! I met three other guys coming the other way.
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THINK OF GRANNY'S HOUSE as a two-headed monster of a trail. The tail is on the north end, where it forks off Arsenio, and the two heads are on the south end where the trail meets the Arsenio Loop Rd.

One of these "heads" is right across from the bottom of Oly, and the other is right across from the top of Purple Heart. So the Granny's House / 187 is also a very useful trail too, since it completes the single track connection between the Towers and Arsenio.

There is some indication that the 187 fork may have been the original terminus of the Log Cabin Trail, since an old alternative name for 187 is Old Rick's Trail, after Old Rick, who purportedly built the log cabin. But the 187 fork was lost to logging activity right after the turn of the century, and only reclaimed through the work of volunteers like Jim Fricker and David Waugh in early 2005.

RIDING Granny's House and 187 either way is a real pleasure, if you like sweet single track that snakes across an undulating ridge in the woods. There are some stunts along the side of the trail, but this is not a stunt fest. It's Galbraith trail riding, with a typical assortment of roots, rocks, switchbacks and slash thrown in to spice it up. Dig it!


Marc Marti at the Log Cabin...
Dylan getting air on a jump just after 187 forks off Granny's House...
Mark Adriance riding the Causeway Rock on 187...
Steve Hindman riding a short section of old growth cedar log that has been a feature of 187 for a long time...
Witness these two shots from the archives showing the legendary Seth Bowman riding the same log in May 2001...
Dig the Schwinn hardtail with a 3 inch Rockshox Judy fork on front!
Dave Morales exiting 187 to the 200 or Arsenio Loop Rd. The sign went up in the summer of 2005...
On the other end of Granny's House, where it meets the 2500 Rd., this nifty little log roll over guards the entrance...

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