FL: Tallahassee - Maclay Gardens State Park

 Believe it or not, I took a day off the bike while here. The guys were free for a Friday morning spin and I wanted to check out Maclay Gardens State Park on the north side of town. It's a trail system I hadn't been to yet and everybody knows, new-to-you dirt is some of the best dirt.

I met up with Chris at Epic Bike shop and we'd roll out from there.

A short social trail, then bikepath led us to this powerline connection. It was a fast rip mostly downhill, but watch out for those deep puddles!!

We met up with Tom as we entered the park.

Already, I was diggin' the vibe of these trails.

We were zigzagging all over the place. I had a feeling my gpx track was going to look like an Etch-a-Sketch. We routed to some obscure social trails, that reminded me of the K-Trail in Gold Canyon, but with dirt instead of rocks. Super cool. There was a good amount of up & down riding too. I was glad to have the undulations. These trails had more roots than the other stuff I had ridden so far, it demanded attention.

Chris frantically trying to keep his rear wheel afloat.

There was some fast 2-track as well.

We tracked down Vince who rode in from the other side of the park.

The park is quite large, lots of trails and 2-track to make a ton of different routes.

Vince showing off that beard of his.

Only a couple of down trees as I'm sure this is an ongoing occurance.

Tom rocking the full squish, which I'm sure was nice over all the roots.

Chris smashing a big singlespeed ratio, I couldn't keep up all day!!

It's Super-Vince!!

More ups, downs, twists and turns through here.

Nice rock armoring here as this was a tricky bit to get through, but I made it. It's more uphill than it looks.

Not sure if I'd filter out of that pond...looks kinda thick.

Fun ledge drop into a rock armored berm.

Helmet graveyard.

Always nice to see work stations installed at trail systems.

We wrapped up the ride and once again, over 1000' gained!! Impressive. We cracked open a couple of the Plinys I had brought along and the guys really appreciated it. These were some really fun trails with more of a technical aspect to them, which I really enjoyed. Nice to see a good bit of variation in trail styles here.

That would be one GIANT slice of pizza. Massive!!

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