I had a wilderness adventure in the garden state yesterday. My wife had a 3 hour appointment in Morristown NJ yesterday and she wanted me to drive her from our home in PA. I took is as an opportunity to explore. I plotted a 35 mile course on my Garmin

Great Swamp Park


Patriot's Path in Morristown


It got a bit sloppy on the trail

around the town using the popularity "heat map" as my guide.

https://connect.garmin.com/modern/activity/2694639159


The first part of the ride took me on some nice roads and I was routed through the center of the Great Swamp national wildlife area. Then more nice roads and I was routed onto Patriot's Path, which turned out to be a challenging single track complete with rocks, roots and puddles. Not exactly the right place for an ex-track bike with 23c slicks at 125 psi. Lucky for me the part of NJ does not have mud, just wet sand and I did not sink in. I bumped and bounced my way along until I came out to a road. A little while longer I went back on the path and it went from paved, to sand, to rocks (ballast) and back to pavement. All tolled about 5 miles of trails with 1 mile of pure rocks. I did not fall and only had to walk on some really steep sections.

All in all it was a nice adventure.

Ride Safe,

Joe