I'm going to have to say mine was a ride on my CX. Memorable because it was a route I had failed to find the previous year and had decided it no existed after an attempt ended with the dirt road leading off the gravel road being signed as private property.
A few maps I had consulted showed the road going through while others didn't. Here's google map showing a big missing section of the road:
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Here's the Wild Life Management map very faintly seeming to show the missing section, Clayroot Rd, though they had renamed the main section I had ridden previously to "Right Fork Rd."
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I was actually investigating a mtb trail I had never heard of on one of the trail sites, don't remember which, and just happened to come across a ride someone had done that was the route I had attempted. My first thought was that it was a very old post but I checked the date and it was recent. The author gave some tips on finding the path off of the gravel road.
I have another loop in this WMA I've done a number of times, but it is taking the left fork. I started a good ways from the WMA, on a rails to trails and then head off on some old roads, some paved, some gravel, eventually making my way to the WMA.
More times than not, I get caught by a trail at this crossing. This ride was no exception.
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I got to where the gravel road took a sharp turn to the left and continued onto the dirt road that forged straight ahead as I had done previously. But I watched off to the right for what had been described as a ATV path, though they aren't allowed in the WMA. Was this it?
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Over the hump and I saw it was in fact a trail.
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Descended a good bit and came to a stream. The guy had mentioned a stream that was a little challenging to cross. I thought the water must have been high when he went through.
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Lot of hike-a-bike past this point as it was quite steep and this bike isn't geared very low.
Later came to the actual stream crossing he had written of.
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The exit was downstream, just before that bend. I took my shoes and socks off, shouldered the bike and started wading through but the %^$#@* river rocks were killing my feet. Ended up rolling the bike so I could keep some of the weight off my feet and make it bearable. Wasn't too deep and I was able to keep my hubs out of the water.
Eventually made it out the other side, back to the paved, open road and looped around back to the rail-to-trail path.
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A few maps I had consulted showed the road going through while others didn't. Here's google map showing a big missing section of the road:
Here's the Wild Life Management map very faintly seeming to show the missing section, Clayroot Rd, though they had renamed the main section I had ridden previously to "Right Fork Rd."
I was actually investigating a mtb trail I had never heard of on one of the trail sites, don't remember which, and just happened to come across a ride someone had done that was the route I had attempted. My first thought was that it was a very old post but I checked the date and it was recent. The author gave some tips on finding the path off of the gravel road.
I have another loop in this WMA I've done a number of times, but it is taking the left fork. I started a good ways from the WMA, on a rails to trails and then head off on some old roads, some paved, some gravel, eventually making my way to the WMA.
More times than not, I get caught by a trail at this crossing. This ride was no exception.
I got to where the gravel road took a sharp turn to the left and continued onto the dirt road that forged straight ahead as I had done previously. But I watched off to the right for what had been described as a ATV path, though they aren't allowed in the WMA. Was this it?
Over the hump and I saw it was in fact a trail.
Descended a good bit and came to a stream. The guy had mentioned a stream that was a little challenging to cross. I thought the water must have been high when he went through.
Lot of hike-a-bike past this point as it was quite steep and this bike isn't geared very low.
Later came to the actual stream crossing he had written of.
The exit was downstream, just before that bend. I took my shoes and socks off, shouldered the bike and started wading through but the %^$#@* river rocks were killing my feet. Ended up rolling the bike so I could keep some of the weight off my feet and make it bearable. Wasn't too deep and I was able to keep my hubs out of the water.
Eventually made it out the other side, back to the paved, open road and looped around back to the rail-to-trail path.
