I rode the ENTIRE Yellow Loop today!

[liznotter]

Many many thanks to the trail workers who came out Saturday and put in the turnpiking at the cell tower. I rode the whole yellow loop with clear conscience for the first time in... well, a long time!

For those of you who haven't been out there yet, when you ride clockwise around the outer yellow loop (going down thru the fields from the 4-way), there is an entrance to a new trail to the right of the cell tower. (There are actually two entrances, one with a small log hop, and another that we created Saturday b/c we were having trouble bunny-hopping the wheelbarrows full of gravel.) The reroute thru the woods lasts about 200 yards, then transitions onto a raised crushed-stone bed that takes you over the fields into the next section of woods.

There is another chronically muddy patch further along, about 200 yards short of the gravel road, where you need to look for a reroute into the cornfield to your right.

Fantastic conditions overall today.

[edward]

Ditto, thanks to the trail workers...

This weekend's weather looks great... well, Friday and Saturday - a mere 10% change of rain... I hope to ride at Hoyles, Black Hill and Schaeffer on Saturday.

[heidi]

I rode the yellow loop CCW from the 4 way on Friday. The new crushed stone path is a very nice addition. Going this direction you are dumped into the cut through the woods. I can see going CW though one might miss the left into the woods at the cell tower, unless you know it's there.

I also rode over the blue through the corn fields. What is up with all the dumps of stone debris on the access road/trail? If you go this way you'll see the debris long before you come to it. Looks like concrete and tile from a pool. I saw two dump trucks dumping and leaving, but there are more than 2 loads there.

I can't imagine the owners blocking off their own paths. I wonder if this is legit, or just some dumpers found a 'free' place to dump.

[jtfilby]

It's not even just rock and stone that was dumped. Trash is mixed in!

[jtfilby]

It's all filled in now...

[liznotter]

I contacted Ranger Powell about the concrete and tile debris. He went to check it out yesterday and also found it filled in. He says that it was probably infill to fix erosion problems on the road.

Liz