Saturday, November 15, 2025

Cowles - Upper Level Quickie

Today a rode a bit of the upper part of Cowles Park starting from the parking area just over the river. I should have ridden Keg Roller the other way as it was an amazing flowy downhill.

I bailed earlier than I planned cuz I got hungry. A burger and beer at the marvelous tavern in Tariffville hit the spot!

Metacomet Trail / NET sec CT 19 a BlueBlaze
Six Flags
Moto Trail West
Keg Roller  
(back)
Root Down

Saturday, November 8, 2025

Yep A triple!

 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.:-)