...adventure with Craig of the season. Well, too warm and to little snow to call it winter ride, but still a good long adventure. Starting out with some Bowness single track and heading west on the south side of the river, on more awesome single track. The trails are in perfect condition. Though with the Bearspaw lake area not frozen some exploration had to happen. We did a minor section of bush whack and a little loop around the fields and getting cut off by peoples huge back yards. Finally made our way up a gravel road that took us on some main back roads. From there Craig had a plan on hooking onto a gravel/field road that should eventually take us to Cochrane. It looked very promising as we jumped the first fence. But then the "trail" disappeared, and it was mostly cow field. The cows do a pretty good job on maintaining some good single track though, so no big issues. We finally found the city water cut line that Craig had seen on Google Map, and jumped on it for the last five min. Then some gravel road to 22, crossed 22 and got a little lesson in riding by a local police who passed us. He let us continue to the top of the climb, then to tell us the road was closed. We now know it was human remains found and investigation was going on. Guess someone must have bonked really hard. We turned around and met up with the girls group who also left the city around our time. Told them about the closure and rode 22 for a bit longer and a back road into Cochrane for a nice lunch.
We manage to convince two, Pam and Suzanne to join us for some off road fun back to Calgary.
Great ride, with a some minor bike issues, 4 1/2 flat I think we counted and one derailleur hanger. Not bad.
Happy Riding!
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