Escape

Another great autumn day in the Sandilands! This time round Pat & I were joined by our wives Darlene & Wendy. Wendy & I dropped off Chelsea & Aimee at the grandparents and made our big escape! Our goals were simple - take a leisurely hike along one of our mtn bike trails and construct a new descent that joined up with a trail we marked out earlier in the week. So armed with machetes, pruners, & a couple rakes we made our way to our biking paradise! Admittedly, I was pretty stoked that our wives joined us and that they actually seemed to enjoy helping us with the trail. We worked a solid couple hours and I'm guessing the trail will be ready to ride with another couple hours of work. Hopefully, the snow holds off till Christmas! Wishful thinking but it has happened in the past.

The trail itself follows a pretty high ridge and rolls along singletrack through some poplar stands and makes a steep descent across our original trail (x-country ski trail in winter) and heads down through some willows and into a cedar stand with some very cool twisted & gnarled trees. The ground unfortunately is very spongy by the cedars but we are hoping it will firm up after some riding. If not, we will have to build it up with some split logs or something (a mild north shore attempt?).

I'm looking forward to taking my bike down the steep next week sometime!