LCHT 8/29/10

[seenvic]

Great ride today from Fell. To the big loop and around it CCW. Nice flow all the way from Fell to the start of the old stuff. Some nice climbs and a creek crossing or two in the first 8 miles that winds up at 505/506.

Then the best piece of single there starts at 505/506, rocky and technical for almost a mile. The ride to "G" where you can complete the big loop or go down to the metal bridge is just great. It is all old school single from 505/506 to "Big Rock". We rode down to the bridge, and back up. Something strange has happened on this section of trail. It rides just great, but it pickup? width in places. Looks like someone just drove down it with a large truck or tractor.

Back up to "G" and more quality single and eventually down "Shawn's Mile", which is really good. I haven't been down this in a long time. Then more miles of machine built stuff back to Fell.


I got bit/stung by something. Never saw what it was, but still have little marks where I got bit. 25 miles, with 24 miles of single and one mile of gravel. It is just great. It is an hour from Sportsman Corner. I was up at 6:15, on the bike up there a little after 8, back in the truck by 11 and home at noon.

Great day to ride. Trail in great shape. Highly recommend a trip to the Long Cane Horse Trail.

[brianW]

Hope to ride up there October for Explore the Trails.

[DK]

Aug 29, 2010 18:38:01 GMT -5 seenvic said:

Something strange has happened on this section of trail. It rides just great, but it pickup? width in places. Looks like someone just drove down it with a large truck or tractor.

Was that maybe where the culvert was replaced? I haven't been in there since then. There's also some logging nearby. I wonder if that has anything to do with it.

[seenvic]

I was wondering about the culvert too. But the width seems to continue on past the culvert work.

I an wondering about the Mormon Re-enactment they do up there. I've seen them pulling stuff behind horses that may do to the trail what I saw. 6-12 feet wide in places. Could have been a tractor/bushhog or a "sled" pulled behind a horse. I dunno.

[DK]

Aug 30, 2010 7:26:41 GMT -5 seenvic said:

I was wondering about the culvert too. But the width seems to continue on past the culvert work.

I an wondering about the Mormon Re-enactment they do up there. I've seen them pulling stuff behind horses that may do to the trail what I saw. 6-12 feet wide in places. Could have been a tractor/bushhog or a "sled" pulled behind a horse. I dunno.

Yep, that could be it. I'm not sure when they do that. I remember the time that they "marked" the trail with several miles of string. That was a weird one to see also. I'm glad they don't do that any longer.

[wooglin]

You should've ridden from I to G. Talk about old school. Overgrown, trashed out, and generally brutal and nasty.

Doug-- String is sometimes used for measuring trail. You just pay it out from a reel as you walk. I presume its biodegradable.

[seenvic]

Aug 30, 2010 13:47:50 GMT -5 wooglin said:

You should've ridden from I to G. Talk about old school. Overgrown, trashed out, and generally brutal and nasty.

Doug-- String is sometimes used for measuring trail. You just pay it out from a reel as you walk. I presume its biodegradable.

We considered that, but didn't. I'd go from Fell, down 9 minute trail if was going to do it. I did ride all that last fall. I used a FS Road to bypass the single that comes into the metal bridge on the heavily overgrown side.

The string was used to mark the trail, not measure it. I witnessed it. I asked WTH are you doing with a spool of string on your saddelhorn and miles and miles of it behind you? Marking the trail for others to follow was the answer. I had string in my hubs and cassette for days if not weeks.

They don't use string anymore because I wrote the USFS every year for 10 years in the scoping process to allow the re-enactment but to ditch the string.