Here I am at the very top of the hill, looking down the trail going to the top of Amanita Road, which I reached about ten minutes or so after taking this picture.

one-day vacation

3/1/09

This is my favourite bit of trail that does not show up on any map that I've seen. A dying breed, for sure.

The roads start off straight and easy to navigate.

Vannet smakte ikke godt, gjorde blæren skitten, jeg kommer ikke til å bruke den igjen, i hvert fall ikke uten filter.

The water was not tasting good, made the bladder dirty , I won't use it again, at least not without a filter.

fast and flowing doubletrack

The road navigating is a little tricky - lots of roads to choose from. My stomach starts to bother me.

No, they didn't crash

We're still on the pipeline, but a road makes the walking easier. Physically, anyway.

Here I am (more or less) at the top of the trail (the very top is still a little ways behind me here) looking back down it. This is quite a ride coming down, I assure you!

Gated section of Loop Trail is doubletrack or wide singletrack.

On the grassy Broad Mountain doubletrack.

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Two hours into our Cape Solitude hike we can clearly follow the doubletrack and are certainly in the open desert. Colter and I encountered some wild horses out here. I don't know why I don't have any photos of them!

The bridge from Salamander across the doubletrack to Phase 1.

The two hundred or so meters of legal doubletrack in Rancho San Antonio... This used to be ungroomed.