Lowes Creek Ride (Nov15)

Ann, Joel and Steve met me Saturday afternoon at Lowes Creek. With temps in the 30's and intermitent flurries, we had perfect fall mountain biking weather. We opted to go clockwise around the west side of the park, but skipped the creek crossing on Rad. About halfway up Missing Link we nearly ran into Dean, so he joined us. We took Worm up to Ax and then Mind Games, but when we got to the Expo center, Ann decided she would have more fun riding by herself, so she took off to do her own thing. We goofed around on Focus, Twister, Dazed and the Pines and then we took Split Rock over to Far East, where we met Bob and Claudia. We did Far East, the west leg of Split Rock, Fern Gully and Red Flint, before heading back into the Pines, Dazed, Twister maze. By the time we found our way out, it was time to head back, so we took Worm down and Rebench up. When we got to the top, Claudia thought her dad needed a little more work so we did the west side counter-clockwise. The snow really picked up while we were in Tunnels, but it was just teasing us.