My friend just purchased a bike trailer for her 11 month old son and she wanted to ride someplace easy for their first ride, so we met at the local rail trail this afternoon. It was 64* and sunny, just lovely.

Well, as soon as I pulled into the parking lot, I saw that it was not going to be easy as we thought! Just from the parking lot, I could see 3 trees across the trail, brought down by the freak Oct snow storm we had last week. As I was looking, a woman rode around one of the trees and told me that it was like that most of the way down the trail, but, except for a couple of places where you had to lift the bike over, most of the trees could be ridden around.

My friend arrived and after taking a quick look, and getting the trail report, we decided to give it a try. Zak was secured in the trailer, given a couple of toys and off we went.

There were two places we had to stop to lift the bikes & trailer over - she picked up her bike and I grabbed the back of the trailer, and together we lifted them over - the rest of the time we road around, or ducked under.

I had to laugh at the idea that rather adventurous ride was Zak's first ride with his Mom because she, at the age of 24, rode the Great Divide mtb trail (much of the way solo) has ridden the VT 50 mtb race a number of times, and planned one of the best bike tours I ever taken where we rode from the Kingdom Trails in E. Burke VT to Killington Vt, much of it on class 6 roads. It just seemed so fitting.
Today we did 13 miles and Zak seemed to enjoy it!