Wine Creek 2011

[azdrawdy]

WOW! WOW! WOW!

Rode Wine this morning. Sweated like there was no tomorrow. Absolutely love this trail. Thanks so much for all the help in keeping this trail open. I will admit that at times I wonder if it is even worth it to maintain this beast, but a ride like this morning keeps the faith alive.

MD

Have a feeling that this week will get us a bunch of miles on TC and WC. They have received a lot of love this year. All deserved. Can't wait until post-spider season is upon us.

[seenvic]

Wine Creek is just great right now.

It is worth the annual mowing, hedging. But I'd rather reroute as much of the bottom 2.5 miles as we can. I love the ride, but it is alot of work to keep it open each year.

[wala]

Good ride on Wine last night. The work done was amazing, sorry I missed the work party. We cleared out a couple of new deadfalls, so the trail is still clear except for the spider webs.

I was surprised to run into 2 riders from Aiken coming from the other direction. I've never seen anyone else on this trail.

[mudonthetires]

Aug 4, 2011 7:34:03 GMT -5 wala said:

Good ride on Wine last night. The work done was amazing, sorry I missed the work party. We cleared out a couple of new deadfalls, so the trail is still clear except for the spider webs.

I was surprised to run into 2 riders from Aiken coming from the other direction. I've never seen anyone else on this trail.

I can definitely second the spider web part. I started riding Wine yesterday around 4:30, started at Key Rd. and I had to have gone through 20 spider webs in the first mile . I am borderline arachnaphobic so this was just too much for me. I tucked tail and headed back to the truck. I stopped off at Petersburg on the way home and did about 12 miles on Bartram. I did not hit even one web out there. I really want to ride Wine (Yesterday was my first try) but I will have to have someone out in front to clear out the 8 legged inhabitants.

[dgaddis1]

The northern half is in a more open forest, and there's a lot less webs. The best riding is in the northern half IMO, more climbing (tho still very little) and the rocky sections, the southern half is just flat riding thru a tunnel of green.

[Angela]

Back before Bartram Trail, Wine Creek was the closest thing we had to a beginner's trail. If we did a beginning ladies ride or anything involved less experienced riders, that was the go to trail!

[tzeaser]

Rode Wine, Modoc & Turkey today. There were 2 trees down on the upper part of Wine above the big dip, 1 more toward the Key Rd end. Other than that the trail is good to go.

[jtaylor]

Rode Wine last night, relatively good shape. 3 non-riders down, Key Rd side of the ravine; 2 step-overs and 1 bushwhack.

[Angela]

This thread is now closed. All posts from this thread dated Jan 1st or later have been moved to the "Trail Conditions 2012" thread