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After work today I met up with Kristi, Marty, Nick, and (unexpectedly) Jon for a ride around Stony Creek. We first headed over to the new South Park Trails (map photo) which have been put in around the Skills Park. That photo up above was taken in one part of the South Park Trails where there happen to be some really beautiful CCC-ish red pine stands.
This new section of trail was very recently cut and thus has a mixture of small stick-like stumps and larger stumps, but it’s becoming rather firm and is really fun to ride. Most of it is up and down, curving double-track like the easy tracks in the other mountain biking area, but there are definitely some challenging climbs and fun, flowing descents. I’m really looking forward to riding this again, and particularly once all the stumps have been removed.
The rest of the ride was uneventful, but fun. We made a run through The Roller Coaster, and found that the newly cut parts of it are becoming particularly great. The trails are coming along very nicely, and are a whole bunch of fun to ride.
(Unfortunately, because of the high speed burst mode of the camera the quality is a bit crap, but it’s still quite a nice area. I really should take my good camera out there. Maybe one day when there is a race…)