Up at the crack of, well we did get up. Breakfast of sausage, eggs, pancakes. After the dishes are done we decide that we need to work off that breakfast so off to do some more of the trails. We are on our way shortly after 8AM. We ride the paved road to the Park Office and find the trail head. The trail is rather flat as it follows the park road before turning into the woods. Then it is like old home week. Tree roots, muddy areas since it rained last night, as well as some elevation changes and switch backs. We are really enjoying ourselves and then we break out onto the power line. Not bad until we see the uphill ahead which is proceeded by a significant down hill up hill section just to burn the thighs a little. I manage to get on the small front chain ring and am able to make the first up hill section and I wait for Suzette before taking off for the next down hill up hill section. After we top that section the trail turns back into the woods. Now it looks like the old muddy, bloody and tired of days gone by. Stream crossings, mud holes from horse traffic, more tree roots, blow downs. We're having a good time now. After we reach the area where we think there was an old gold mine the trail turns back to the power line. We don't want to do that so we decide to authorize ourselves to go on the sections that has a sign, "Authorized .... beyond this point" which takes by the head rangers house and a maintenance area and out to the park road.
We follow the road until we see the trail we started on so we head back into the woods. We end up on Pigeon Run Trail which is really great until, you guessed it, it joins the power line. Now this is steep. The down is much easier than the up by now. We suffer thru and the trail turns back into the woods for another .7 miles until it joins the hard road which we follow back to the campsite.
It is now lunch time and we devour some snack mix before making lunch. I'm down for a nap and Suzette is doing some stitching.
Campsite with our home made sun shade and an awning mat.
Logan is resting also.
Since we are well rested it is time to eat again. This time we decide to cook our steaks over a wood fire. Since some previous campers left a good supply of oak all we need is some kindling and we are in business. Steak, potatoes, pea's. We need to bulk up after the mornings ride.
The beach and concession area as viewed from Railroad Ford trail.
We took the truck to the beach area along with Logan. He really enjoyed snapping at the wavelets and drinking lake water. After taking in the sunset we returned to camp we rebuilt the fire and enjoyed relaxing before the damp of the evening set in.
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That's a nice-looking park there.
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