so it's night i'm alone and i'm about to ride my
mountain bike into the heart of 50 000 acres of national forest
about two days ago the remnants of hurricane zeta came through here so
i'm expecting a lot of leaves on the trail hiding the trail there will certainly be a
lot of limbs down and there might be a few trees crossing my path let's see how it goes
i didn't mention the fact it is halloween
all right downhill pedals neutral tree already this is gonna be a junky ride
wow that was sketch that wasn't so bad it was certainly different
i can't see the trail pedal strikes on that
all the leaves
garbage oh that's terrible that is terrible
this climb is tough in this leaves
this is pretty tough i can't see the trail as well and all the rocks in it
normally on these descents you got to keep those pedals neutral or a pedal you'll get something
that'll snatch your pedals i can't see what's in there so i definitely am slowing down quite a bit
okay this is the only thing that has me spooked out here
is this downhill it's about a mile long and it's technical
it's tough to do fast in broad daylight let alone at night
with leaves all over the trail
oh this is
oh terrible leaves
caution!
oh that's straight garbage
spooky i could help it i did it
nice
that was sketch oh yeah coming in the home stretch here
wow okay that was doable
okay that was the mile downhill not too bad there were a few places that were
really sketchy because of all the leaves but uh i survived it i'm down here at the bottom
where the creek is and it is really quiet i've not heard a deer have not seen an owl
i did see someone up on the ridge with a flashlight and they were pointing it down
my way as i was going down one of the trails but other than that it's been still and quiet
all right let's get some more
i think the climbs have been the toughest part because i'm going slower than i would
be during daylight and because of all the leaves and darkness
i can't see all of the momentum robbing rocks and so or you know i can't pick the clean line
i don't know if my pedal moved something in the leaves or something was in the leaves and moved
but that was spooky
this is a fast downhill pretty clear old fire break road
keep the pedals up and i should be good
okay maybe not
okay i made it i'm back to the road and it's just a short gravel downhill all the way to the truck
from here in the parking lot uh it definitely was spooky but not because of the darkness or anything
like that the trail conditions were pretty terrible so i hope everyone enjoyed it and uh
later!