Three Rides
This story is short: The two new trails — Trail 11.5 and Trail 6 (a converted log skid road) — are fast, skinny, woodsy, fern-flanked singletracks with plenty of grunting climbs and tight-twisting turns. You may be inclined to walk some of the hairpins. You may wonder about mountain lions. And you may, like Brian who has been riding the forest so long he could do it backwards in the dark, wish there were many more trails like these, and much longer ones. Although the trails in the community forest are fun, and now more varied, they are limited — you can ride them in a couple of hours. Compared with other places where logging has shaped forests, say, Canada and Oregon, Arcata’s approach to accommodating recreation has been slow to catch up, Brian says. But two new trails, achieved through no small amount of effort by Brian’s colleague, Rocky — that’s something.
And if you take extended vacations from cycling, they’re like brand new.
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