Friday, May 6, 2011

Pipestone Ride

Yesterday might have just been our finest spring day yet...although the cloudy & rainy stuff is back today through the weekend.  When a window of decent weather opens up, it is time to take full advantage of it and play.

I loaded the rig up and headed out to Pipestone to try to catch some sunshine.  I rode for about two hours and can slowly feel the legs getting used to riding outside again.  It was great to be able to get out and not worry about digits being cold - quite the contrary, it almost felt warm!   As usual, there were great views of the snow capped Highlands:
The trails were in good condition until you hit around 6,000 ft where there were some muddy spots and an occasional patch of snow.   The trails that had moto or 4 wheeler traffic were already starting to loosen up, although it just means being a little more of an explorer and finding the more hard to find trails that have not been too tracked out yet.  I took a couple of road spurs that I don't usually take to find out where stuff went or whether they linked in to prior trails.   Slowly, but surely this maze and network of trails is starting to come together in my mind.  There are still a couple of gaps to link a couple of areas up but considering all the moto traffic in the area, I would suspect they exist.

The weather looked a little ominous off in the distance but held out just fine for the area while riding.  It did look like the Tobaccy's were getting some action though:


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