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We headed out on a cold south east Tennessee morning to ride the shortest day of this year in windrock.
We started from the parking lot with just myself and tall boys Taco as @vrtical had just settled in for a long winters' nap, subsequently oversleeping. We left the store and rode around to the entrance of trail 26. We could see that clouds had frozen onto the trees and ground as the temperature had dropped. a light snow had started as we aired down.
We had contact with Vrtical and decided he would meet us at the top of trail 22. We completed 26 and made trail 27. A short ride on G5 and 5 put us at the top of 22. The ride was fun and even though the ground was somewhere between wet and frozen. We met Vrtical and made our way back to 83. I had forgotten we had once before attempted the cut between either end of 83 by taking 82. We tried once more. This is a tight trail which is peppered with small obstacles. This leads to a ledge that has only worn more with time. Once past this you find the real gem that the trail is rated for. Two large rock out croppings with a large treefall wedged at an angle above them. This obstacle is a precarious downhill tilting badly... We turned back and took 83.
After that we took several adventurous twist and turns to end up at 43. Making our way down Vrtical had to make his exit and split off out of the park. We ended up coming out to HWY 116 as well and made our way deeper between Frozen head state park and G17 back in to windrock. G17 was surprisingly technical. We followed it to 42. Our plan was to press through back to the 43 intersection. We once again found our limit on a rutted 20* mud climb that we chuncked out on while being pitched into the bank.
Turning back we took to G17 and went to the back side of 6 where I floated a rear tire quite high. This led us back tracking to the top of 22 where we made our way down and out as we lost all daylight and slid into the winter solstice. Pictures below.
We started from the parking lot with just myself and tall boys Taco as @vrtical had just settled in for a long winters' nap, subsequently oversleeping. We left the store and rode around to the entrance of trail 26. We could see that clouds had frozen onto the trees and ground as the temperature had dropped. a light snow had started as we aired down.
We had contact with Vrtical and decided he would meet us at the top of trail 22. We completed 26 and made trail 27. A short ride on G5 and 5 put us at the top of 22. The ride was fun and even though the ground was somewhere between wet and frozen. We met Vrtical and made our way back to 83. I had forgotten we had once before attempted the cut between either end of 83 by taking 82. We tried once more. This is a tight trail which is peppered with small obstacles. This leads to a ledge that has only worn more with time. Once past this you find the real gem that the trail is rated for. Two large rock out croppings with a large treefall wedged at an angle above them. This obstacle is a precarious downhill tilting badly... We turned back and took 83.
After that we took several adventurous twist and turns to end up at 43. Making our way down Vrtical had to make his exit and split off out of the park. We ended up coming out to HWY 116 as well and made our way deeper between Frozen head state park and G17 back in to windrock. G17 was surprisingly technical. We followed it to 42. Our plan was to press through back to the 43 intersection. We once again found our limit on a rutted 20* mud climb that we chuncked out on while being pitched into the bank.
Turning back we took to G17 and went to the back side of 6 where I floated a rear tire quite high. This led us back tracking to the top of 22 where we made our way down and out as we lost all daylight and slid into the winter solstice. Pictures below.
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. Need to work on video I have.
