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.. Has some nice trail. I rode up the Cheyenne Creek drainage and then down the Bear Creek drainage. The ride up was on a trail called "7 bridges" gee, I wonder why? The bridges were recently repaired, so they were all ridable. I guess things were a lot more sketchy a year or so ago. The trail itself was steep and technical, with about 30% hiking. Plus I got lost and ended up on some pretty exposed crappy "trail" I backtracked and got back on the real trail, which headed up along a reddish scree slope. The terrain here is like nothing I'd seen before. Decomposed reddish pink granite with pines and aspens. When I stopped to eat I looked over and saw an aspen that had some serious bear markings on it. Pretty cool if you ask me, I parked the bike in front for size comparison. They were pretty high up, but were also fairly old so I bet the bear wasn't really 10 feet tall. I even saw a touch of fall: Even though it's supposed to be 90 on Sunday..

I think we skipped straight to summer, it was 70 and wicked sunny today and 65 yesterday. I went on two rides in the last two days: Mt. Tom In Mass yesterday afternoon, and Penwoods State Park in CT today. I had something I don't normally have today, light. Pictures without blur, weird huh? I saw a wild turkey, bunch of squirrels and chipmunks, some crows and various LBBs. (little brown birds) This one is actually three pictures combined to show a better dynamic range. Yes I am a dork, but that was also a sweet spot to watch the sun set. This was the only picture from Mt. Tom I took. All of these and more can be found here. Vroom! Real dirt is fun to turn on. I think this trail may be my favorite in CT now, it had very few people (3 groups in 3 hours) and really nice trails.. Oh, and constant climbing.. 3420 feet of climbing in 3 hours. Didn't see that coming. Really nice singletrack on the side of a steep hill. Rocks, but not as many as usual. This place had some re...