Allegrippis Trails - Raystown Lake pt. 3 The Final Chapter

Sleeping in while group camping is not the easiest thing to do, even when you try to. The sun begins to rise and shine into the tent, the birds begin to sing and mountain bikers begin to stir. Up and out of the tent at 6:30 we slowly began to plot our day. First up was heating water for coffee and tea. Breakfast was supposed to be served at 7 AM, so we walked down to the pavilion. Noticing that that there was no food in sight we walked back down to the camp site and fired up the stoves. Out came the eggs, bacon, cheese and wheat bread as I cooked up breakfast sandwiches for the gang.


After eating breakfast we were ready to ride again by 9:15. To save some time we loaded the bikes onto the car and shuttled up to the trail head. Riding today it was just myself, Matthew, and Jim. We planned out a different route than Saturday to hit some of the trails we had missed. Our reactions to the trails were the same as the day before. We were laughing and having a great time as we hit spots such as these:




After our ride we packed up our gear and left Raystown Lake to head for home, all vowing to return again to ride these sweet sweet trails. I definitely recommend to everybody to make it up there at some point this year. The trails are well constructed and are fast, flowy and nontechnical. They only danger at Raystown Lake is speed, as too much can send you flying off one of the grade reversals. The trails are also marked excellently w/ directional arrows and trail names, and mapped out so there is little chance of getting lost. Here's a map of the rides that I did Saturday and Sunday and the official trail map.

Get out and ride some new trails

The trails at The Lakes were in near mint condition yesterday. Over the last year YAMBA has constructed three new sections of trail at The Lakes. These are trail 2C, a reroute of Trail 4, and the recently finished reroute/extension of Trail 1. Each of these new trails are in great condition. Trail 4 is finally dry and bedded in, and the berm rips! Trail 1 is bedding in quite nicely this soon after being fininshed and has a good flow already. The forecast rain has held off, so the trails should be open through the whole long weekend hopefully, as long as Saturday mornings showers are light. Check out the new trails, have fun, and keep the rubber side down.

Rocky Ridge Trail Map

All of the legal trails at Rocky Ridge. A Hi-res file is available here. Right click and save as.

Tea Kettle Trail

Today was the second workday on Tea Kettle at Spring Valley County Park. Tea Kettle will eventually run from Line Rd, near the bridge over the creek, to the current Trail 1 near Ridge Rd. Tea Kettle can currently be found by climbing Trail 1 from the trailhead at Line Rd and Park St.

Dick Mansberger, Alyssa Mease, Larry Schlaline, Lindsay Tobias, and Susan Moury joined me in extending last weeks work further up the hill to the ridge line. We were able to get a lot of work completed considering the small size of our crew. Thanks for coming out guys and gals.

Dick and Larry did an awesome job with the rock work on the hi/low section

The gang working on the bench cut