Today I hiked up Rattlesnake Mountain over in Southern Farmington. I had to drop off a trombone for repair at the Music Lab (in nearby Milldale) so I didn't get started until after 3 pm. It was hot and I didn't wear shorts so I turned around at the big rock section apparently missing the great view- oh well next time!
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| I sat here on the way back down |
I parked at the Birch Mountain lot for a change and headed up the Carriage Path. Smookey, Mr. Pickles and Splinter had lots of rocks and it was getting buggy. Down by the pond at the bottom - it was beautiful so I snapped a couple of photos...
RIW at River Highlands - the weather was great!
Then I went over to Smith School and rode some more!
Headed up to Cowles mid morning and finally rode a bit of the upper section. Taj Mahal was great! The climb up to it was some serious hike-a-bike and what's worse? As I was climbing I realized I left my Camelbak back on top of the car!!! Duh!
I was hoping to do more of the upper section but I beelined it back down to get the Camelbak....
...and decided to finish off the morning with a quickie at Smith School. I had just leaf blew the back trails at Parcel 3 at Smith and wanted to ride the crazy dip into the crevasse (which surprising I hadn't seen before!)
Later that day I headed over to Plainville to ride with the NEMBA guys a Shade Swamp. There were lots of us and downs and I baled early (at the XX) and rode back to the Transcend Brewery via the roads. We head a nice social time at the brewery when the full ride was complete.:-)
Central CTNEMBA had its annual NembaFest ride at Tyler Mill Today - the weather was perfect! About 60 riders or so turned up and the vibes were great (donuts/coffee, pizza galore and raffle and a bunny hop contest).
I had a great ride (destination the Rivertime trail) and --needless to say-- the pedal assist served me well!
We ended a little after 12 noon and I was still jonesin' for more bike time so I rode the trails. East of Keeney. I discovered a good amount of trees down in the dirt biked area north of Howe but managed to slog thru the confusion and hit the Fun Loop.
Since quite a few trails were getting hard to distinguish I returned a bit later and leaf blew a few of the "harder to discern" trails and made a reroute on Backtracks.
Why did I call this a lithium day. Well the two rides AND the leaf blow were all powered by lithium batteries so why not call it that ?:-)
I did an hour and half ride around a good amount of trails at Tyler Mill today (late afternooon
Heck - I am beginning to really like the place!
