I wanted to quickly make a note [for myself I suppose] about my experience mountain biking in the New England states. I think I have concluded that New England mtn bikers are better than Idaho mtn bikers. The terrain that they have to work with is very challenging to navigate on a bicycle. Where trails like these in Idaho would be closed to bicycles, they are not in this part of the country. I suppose its because they wouldn't have anything to ride on otherwise. Most of the terrain is rocky and where there isn't rocks you will ride on top of a network of mostly tree roots.
In Idaho we are used to climbing up mountains with very little obstacles and then bombing down fast and mostly smooth surface trails. Therefore, your workout portion of the ride is within the vertical climb. Here, what they lack in vertical challenge they make up for in technical challenge.
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| Can you find the trail? Surprisingly you do get used to just peddling through these. Oh, throw away your clip in shoes. You don't need them here. [The trail veers right. Over the "mostly" flat rocks. ] |
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| Where there are trees to cross, throw some rocks down to get over. |
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| Many parts of the trail contain rocks |
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| I don't think most people ride these but it wouldn't surprise me if they did |
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| The Lakes up here are pretty fantastic |
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