mattm59
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My son Aaron and I were headed to Portland Ct., today to work on my sailboat, and I figured we'd take a drive down rt. 66 to 151 in Cobalt to check this park out. We're both very glad we did. Our hardtails were quite at home here, lots of fast smooth singletrack with just enough features to keep things entertaining; seemed like we had some 15-20 mile per hour runs go on for 10 minutes. Just an illusion I'm sure, but we're planning weeknds on the boat with mountain bikes to get quick access to this and the other trails in the area. Seems like southern Ct. doesn't have the unforgiving granite mass like the northern half, making me much more comfortable and smooth on my hardtail. We started at the lot by rt. 151 (northern section) and planned on a counterclockwise loop. Started all downhill on a fireroad, down to the river. Payback was climbing the yellow dot up to the peaks, then we screwed up and looped back down the same way we had just gone up. Back to the peak, and followed yellow along the ridge, back into the woods. We also pedaled the Green, White dot trails, and found some great trails off these (silver was awesome, thank you whoever you are.)
Got sidetracked several times, but the speed on these trails made that no real issue, except for the fact I hadn't eaten all day..ended up having breakfastlunchdinner at 6:30:-?
Note; state map states these are "multi-use trails" so I'm comfortable riding them. I would however, keep an eye out for horses. we saw some as we left, by their trailers, calm and all, but if approaching a horse, best to stop and be calm and get the owners response. Horses ain't as smart as mountain bikes ya' know:smash:
Got sidetracked several times, but the speed on these trails made that no real issue, except for the fact I hadn't eaten all day..ended up having breakfastlunchdinner at 6:30:-?
Note; state map states these are "multi-use trails" so I'm comfortable riding them. I would however, keep an eye out for horses. we saw some as we left, by their trailers, calm and all, but if approaching a horse, best to stop and be calm and get the owners response. Horses ain't as smart as mountain bikes ya' know:smash:
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