Sat, Jun 25 2011 - Easy Mountain Bike - Waskehegan at Cooking Lk-Blackfoot Prov Pk (View Original Event Details)
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What an awesome day, and a fantastic adventure!! If I'd known it was going to drizzle most of the day, and downpour enthusiastically a couple of times, I would have cancelled. Fortunately, I trusted the weather forecast and didn't cancel... even though the forecast let us down, the day did not.
Even though I had posted this as an "easy" mountain bike trip, we did 25km total, and everyone was "spent" by the end of the trip. There were some very muddy patches, which were challenging enough for most, but especially so for me and Beth with our hybrid road tires (and somewhat for Andrea on her singlespeed).
Starting at Waskahegan Staging Area, we took Lost Lake, Grouse, Lost Lake, Siksika, Siksika route for the first half of the trip, lunching just before the intersection with Lost Lake. Turning left at Lost Lake, we followed that trail all the way back to the parking lot.
Most of us opted for drinks and food at Original Joe's in Sherwood Park after the ride, where four lucky explorers sampled Brent's last "Cherry Ripe" bar from Oz, and Keith scored "gentleman of the day" points for letting Andrea wrap herself up in a blanket from his car.
Thanks to everyone for coming out. Hope to see you all again soon!
-- Rhonda
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