Rough Roads

Nancy and I drove up to the Moore Creek Trailhead to ride to Bobby Lake, the PCT and back last Tuesday. Well, as I said before, the actual trailhead is a nasty turn around, so we parked down the road.

The 5 miles up the gravel road with the trailer were rough and poor Jo was soaking wet with nervous sweat when we got there.  I rode her down to the creek which had been full of water 2 weeks ago, only to discover that it was dry as a bone.  How's that song go, "drove my chevy to the levy but the levy was dry"?  Yeah, well, Moore Creek used to run all year, guess not this year.

According to the signs and maps, it should have been an 18 mile round trip, came in at 13 according to the gps.  Ah, well, we stood in the marsh next to the lake and chatted for close to an hour.  About 45 minutes in, I realized that I hadn't seen a single mosquito.  Not sure where they were, suspect that I wouldn't want to be there near night fall though.

There was about a one mile section that had a lot of downed trees.  We got over or around them all, but that section does need to be cleared.  There apeared to be trail activity coming in off of the PCT, but not much from the Moore Creek side.

I'd never ridden all the way around Bobby Lake, turned out to be a pretty good sized lake.  Got a couple nice views of Maiden Peak.

The ride home down that wash board road was nasty, at least for poor Jo, alone in the trailer.  She always buries her head in the corner but on that ride she jammed her head into the corner so hard, she drew blood.  Poor thing.  That trailer is sooooo noisy, she must have thought she was in . . . well, you know.

Well, the ride was beautiful, nice day, beautiful scenary, good horses and a good friend.