Another busy weekend. Saturday, Nate, Steve and I worked on a reroute on a particularly sandy section of the gravel road at UWF. What started out to be a new short section of trail ended up being a long section of reclamation. Someone back in the day had cut a trail going exactly where we wanted and I guess they abandoned it, maybe when the gravel road got constructed. Anyway, we reclaimed it and it should be a lot nicer than the eroded and sandy road. There is a small creek that may be a wet weather creek but it had water in it so there may need to be a creek crossing of some sort. Right now it’s crossed by some slippery rotted logs. I had the trailer loaded down with tools so by the time I got home, my legs were fairly sore. I spent the rest of the evening reworking the trailer so the tools sit lower making the bike not so tippy. I think I had about 4-4.5 hours at UWF.
Sunday, Barbara and I loaded up the bikes and headed up to Blackwater to do a nice and easy lap on a perfect fall day. We got about a third of a lap in before Barbara gave out and headed down to the creek to read the paper. I met up with Marty, James, Mark, Nate, Ryan, and two new guys whose names I can’t remember and we knocked out a lap. The trail is hard to follow in places due to the weeds and encroaching branches. There must be some law about trees falling on the trail because there was so much deadfall across the trail. We got in a good lap though. Several sections were tedious but others were pretty exciting. Mark and Marty stayed on my wheel so I know they had a good lap without having to search for the trail. The others worked on their trail following skills. All the trail needs is a little trimming and a lot of riding. I’m thinking of taking off the week of Thanksgiving and get in a weeks worth of cleanup. I think they stayed to get in some more riding. I finished off the day by completing the trailer project. I loaded it down with all the tools and it rode so much better. 


