Met up with Steve and Samantha (and Stella, their dog) for a ride around Minnewaska State Park. This park offers some dramatic views from some very steep cliffs. The trails are wide open carriage trails and no single track for bicyles to ride on (at least for now). What it misses in technical it makes up with some great views on just about every turn, climb or decent… Its not a challenging park to ride, but its one of those places you just need to see and do every once in awhile to mix things up and keep it interesting. We did roughly a 11 mile loop in about 1 hour. No granny gear, and probably could push the big ring for most of it.

We went back to Ringwood State Park today… We started at the school parking lot, climbed up the old race course downhill, down the red trail, climbed that long hill to the Japanese Trail (think I’m the only one calling it that), then climbed the long fire road to the entrance of Cannon Ball Run. From there we cut onto the race course and connected to the Death March climb to Skylands to Warm Puppy Rock and back to the School Trail to the parking lot. As usual, it was a fun ride with plenty of wet leaves… oh… yeah, and plenty of slippery wet rocks.

Ringwood trails were covered in leaves this weekend… Technical sections became a bit more challenging as the rocks were hidden under all these leaves. My fork blew a seal, so I guess it’ll be making a trip to a bike shop pretty soon… or maybe I’ll splurge and get it Pushed.

After a day of trick or treat, we all met up at Allaire State Park for a fall ride. Trails were a little slippery in spots, but overall we kept the pace and cut through the park like we were on a run-away train. I need to start strapping the camera to my chest strap… pulling it out of the back pack isn’t working (only one pic).

GPS of our loopy ride.

Steve did a ride recently that I missed.. check for rides around Kingston posted on Fats in the Cats. Steve’s recent ride took everyone on a road / dirt loop through the industry trails. More pics from the ride can be found here.