Went for a quick ride Friday night up Little Bear Road, Oh yeah: on the way to the trails we came out Cottonwood Road to 191 and discovered there is a 4 wheeler trail on the side of the road all the way down to Little Bear Road! Fun!
Up Little Bear we explored a trail we found that went clear up to the top of the mountains. It climbed up and up winding around the mountainside on an old logging road track. It was a pretty fun little doubletrack with some fun waterbar jumps and great views.
It was about an hour from the house to this point. From the top we had a great view overlooking Bozeman and the Gallatin Valley. The sun was low and the light was really great. I was riding a little timidly as I had a cyst removed from my shoulder on Tuesday and have fresh stitches in there.....But Alex was roosting up a storm! He really likes that KTM 625 it looked like!
After a hectic workweek it instantly clears my head to be out jamming along in the woods using full attention to navigate the trail. There is no room left for stress or worry or thinking about problems. Only the flow of riding....
View of the trail up top. This kind of stuff is pretty fun on these bikes. We went a little farther up than this but the trail got pretty sketchy, getting narrower with a big dropoff right at the outside edge, and big rocks in the trail surface. I pulled the plug with my shoulder making me hesitant to get into anything too rough and we headed for home. It is so great to live in a place like this where a 25 mile ride from the house gets you on top of a mountain watching the sun go down over the Northern Rockies. Welcome to Big Sky Country!We are going to do a big ride on Sunday and get some more people along. We will leave from Bozeman this time and see where we end up out there....
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