The trail steward posted many warnings about the roughness and condition of the trail. That it would be rough, loose, grassing, and multiple by-passes due to damage but was encouraging people to ride the trail. Riding helps the trail, it smooths and levels it out.
The Frisco trail is a fairly new trail and was only created a couple years ago. There is 8 miles of single track packed into a pretty small space out there. It can be a HOT place to ride during the summer because it's wide open in 70% of the trail. The steward has done a lot with the elevation he had to work with and got about 350ft of climbing pre-lap. It's comprised of an outer loop "Ranger" and three internal loops "Wolverine", "Coyote", and "Redhawk". With an additional look "Raccoon" to be finished soon. I think once "Raccoon" is done it will put the total mileage up near 10 miles. The best part of all it's only 20 minutes from my house!!!
So I got out to the trail at around 5:00pm. It was around 94 degrees but felt like 100+. Due to the heat and the trail conditions it was a slow ride. But I was able to get 20 miles and was out on the trails for about 2.5 hours. I went through about a gallon of fluids while out there.
There were quite a few critters out while we were riding. We found a 7 legged tarantula, saw a skunk running through the grass, and I ran over a cottonmouth snake that was quite pissed at the whole ordeal.
The trail crews have done some cool fixes to combat erosion. Here they armored a descent with bricks to protect it from the water.
Here are a couple of other videos from the ride, because MTB videos are cool!
1 comment:
Good on ya, bud. Those bricks on that descent are cool! I like your GPS mapping of your route, too. You should turn it into a maze puzzle for your girls.
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