Road Trip to Levis

Sunday morning was considerably cooler than I anticipated, so I wasn't surprised to find an empty parking lot at Fairfax, but I was all dressed up, so I decided to head down anyway. It turns out that Levis Mound is less than an hour from Eau Claire, so I was on my bike by 9:15.

The trails are sweet with the vast majority being winding and rolling through evergreen and deciduous forest punctuated by seemingly vertical switchback climbs and descents and long runs along ridgelines with huge drops. The sections of trail through the low lying areas make extensive use of corduroy and boardwalk brigdes and serveral of the bluff trails also use boardwalks. I decided do the system counter-clockwise, but after 3 hours I was beat so I missed out on a bunch of cool-sounding trails like Cliff Hanger, Pile Driver, and Cork Screw, but I did get to do Tornado and Plumber's Crack. The pictures don't do it justice.

When I got back to my car there were several hunters about to head in and scope out the trails and their stands, which explains why the deer were so skitish. Not at all like the ones in Lowes Creek.

Levis is closed during deer hunting, but if the snow holds off I will try to do another trip the first week of December.