Southerly Ladies September Ride

Five of us met at the Trolley Trail trailhead - one lady stopping by to tell us she keeps wanting to join us and it keeps not working out.  She was doing a tour of catios (cat patios!) instead.

The remaining four us headed south on the Trolley Trail, turning off at Park Avenue to ride the lovely Aldercrest.  We took a quick tour of Clackamas Park's grass and gravel byways and bridges, enjoyed a rest stop and continued on Aldercrest to the rocky single track at its end.

We visited No Trespassing Lake (actually Lake Leona at Johnson City), then onward to the "good part" of the 205 bike path and on to High Rocks bridge.  After a snack and a chat, we turned back northward.

One lady opted to head back on the Trolley Trail, while the remaining three of us agreed to go get weird!  We explored a dead end Fish Hatchery road and some industrial roads before reaching the Sunrise Trail. From there, things got bizarre as we tried our luck on some single track cutties, crossing Mount Scott Creek and riding along the wrong side of the tracks.

The huge unnamed swatch of land north of Furnberg features a labyrinth of hard-packed dirt single track, some gravel and some densely wooded dark haunted sections.  I could play there all day!

Finally we lost another rider due to time constraints and the two of us remaining headed to the secret lake, took a look, and booked it back to Linwood, the Springwater Trail and a bonus climb up 55th Avenue.

I forgot to take a photo of the group, so am instead showing a photo of the spoke card each rider gets for joining this chill pace ladies ride.