Today was a great ride! Instead of riding home, I met Corrie at Dave and Esther’s (who watched the kids), and together the two of us went for about an hour, an hour and a half riding through the Kenna Cartwright park. We rode west, sort of traversing around the first hill up above KCC. Then we found the Power Line trail and took it back east. All of this was climbing, climbing, climbing! Corrie was more than pleased to find a Saskatoon berry bush just about to the top of our climb, so we stopped and she pretty much cleaned the entire bush void of any berries! Well, after that I will let the pictures do the talking… :)
The view from the top of Power Line trail, looking down over Dufferin and Aberdeen. Not shown in the picture, but just to the left at the top we could see almost all of Juniper. A nice resting point from all the climbing we had to do just to get up here!
Looking North over Westsyde and Rayliegh… Amazing views in this park!
We had some fun descending and then, with just a bit more climbing, we found a really long and steep fire-road that took us over and down the North side of Mount Dufferin. This trail, Doc Findlay, has some of the most fun bits of single-track around.
I had to get a picture of this. The hill on the right is really quite a steep, long drop off. As such, Corrie lost control going over a root climbing this little section and, not feeling like heading down hill, she decided falling against the bank on her right was a better option. Nice choice! :)
As I rarely got far enough in front of Corrie to allow me time to stop and take a picture, here’s my only action shot of our ride. This is the end of the Doc Findlay loop single-track, a nice fast, swooping downhill section that empties out onto a bit of double-track to end the ride.
Well, it was a blast for sure! What a date! :) Hopefully we will be able to manage many more similar rides this summer. I may have pushed Corrie a bit too hard, but she managed fine! Next time, though, I think we’ll have to bring an actual camera as these photos from my phone aren’t so great…
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