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03-19-05, 12:53 PM
Last night Steve_Br gave me a call wanting to know if I was gane to try and ride this morning. I said Sure ! So we decided to get out there early before the temperature softened up the snow.
Se we met at 7:30 ma At Douglas State forest and started ridingthe Snowmobile tracks , it started out as just riding fire roads , but weadded some Rail beds ,logging trails but ulso founf the some of the single track was ridable , We were going at a good pace which made it difficult for me to get many pictures but here is a Picture of the an end/Begging marked for The masschussets mid - state trail ( 90 Miles of trail across Mass ) and it was also one end ofthe Rhode Island North south Trail , which i just found maps and information about on line for online, it is 78 miles across Rhode Island ( with a little in Conneticut ) ( in case you hadn't figured it out this is also a marker for the state line ) Here is a site with e the RI NS trail maps http://outdoors.htmlplanet.com/nst/nst_map00.htm
http://home.comcast.net/~maggoeller/bikes/mar19/IM007551.jpg
We then tooled around some of the trails in RI looking for the CT line , but we could not find Conneticut. so We were working our way over to Lake wallum , when we found this little camp Lean-to . It was a very cool little hut , and it had a Journal there for visitors to write an entry. So I put one for us and Signed it "Splat & Berkshire Rider www.nemba.org"
http://home.comcast.net/~maggoeller/bikes/mar19/IM007554.jpg
we made it to lake wallum and here I took this while we were riding across the lake
http://home.comcast.net/~maggoeller/bikes/mar19/IM007557.jpg
Now this is an important thing to do!
read the signs!!
we were trying to rid this trail that has a bunch of board walks , I was in the lead when My wheel went off the side of the board walk (you could tell where the snow was on the board walk and there it wasnt . so I stopped , Steve stopped behind me but put his foot down off the board walk , his foot went through the snow down about 2 feet 2 water and he fell over , me thinking this is going to makea great Pic , turned to take a pic , and put my foot off the other side and down i went ! so here we we both are laying on our backs in the snow and bushes trying to get back up , really would have made some great pics
http://home.comcast.net/~maggoeller/bikes/mar19/IM007555.jpg
Steve riding down some dirt
http://home.comcast.net/~maggoeller/bikes/mar19/IM007560.jpg
As we were riding back we went across a section of Pond/swamp and it looked like a Snomobile wasa little tooo heavy for the ice here
http://home.comcast.net/~maggoeller/bikes/mar19/IM007561.jpg
then as we were heading back the snow had softened up, and riding got much more difficult , we went looking for any stretch of Ice we could find !
but we were out for about 3 hours and got a lot more riding in that I had expected too
Se we met at 7:30 ma At Douglas State forest and started ridingthe Snowmobile tracks , it started out as just riding fire roads , but weadded some Rail beds ,logging trails but ulso founf the some of the single track was ridable , We were going at a good pace which made it difficult for me to get many pictures but here is a Picture of the an end/Begging marked for The masschussets mid - state trail ( 90 Miles of trail across Mass ) and it was also one end ofthe Rhode Island North south Trail , which i just found maps and information about on line for online, it is 78 miles across Rhode Island ( with a little in Conneticut ) ( in case you hadn't figured it out this is also a marker for the state line ) Here is a site with e the RI NS trail maps http://outdoors.htmlplanet.com/nst/nst_map00.htm
http://home.comcast.net/~maggoeller/bikes/mar19/IM007551.jpg
We then tooled around some of the trails in RI looking for the CT line , but we could not find Conneticut. so We were working our way over to Lake wallum , when we found this little camp Lean-to . It was a very cool little hut , and it had a Journal there for visitors to write an entry. So I put one for us and Signed it "Splat & Berkshire Rider www.nemba.org"
http://home.comcast.net/~maggoeller/bikes/mar19/IM007554.jpg
we made it to lake wallum and here I took this while we were riding across the lake
http://home.comcast.net/~maggoeller/bikes/mar19/IM007557.jpg
Now this is an important thing to do!
read the signs!!
we were trying to rid this trail that has a bunch of board walks , I was in the lead when My wheel went off the side of the board walk (you could tell where the snow was on the board walk and there it wasnt . so I stopped , Steve stopped behind me but put his foot down off the board walk , his foot went through the snow down about 2 feet 2 water and he fell over , me thinking this is going to makea great Pic , turned to take a pic , and put my foot off the other side and down i went ! so here we we both are laying on our backs in the snow and bushes trying to get back up , really would have made some great pics
http://home.comcast.net/~maggoeller/bikes/mar19/IM007555.jpg
Steve riding down some dirt
http://home.comcast.net/~maggoeller/bikes/mar19/IM007560.jpg
As we were riding back we went across a section of Pond/swamp and it looked like a Snomobile wasa little tooo heavy for the ice here
http://home.comcast.net/~maggoeller/bikes/mar19/IM007561.jpg
then as we were heading back the snow had softened up, and riding got much more difficult , we went looking for any stretch of Ice we could find !
but we were out for about 3 hours and got a lot more riding in that I had expected too