nice! there was a random iguana that lived in the tree by our bedroom window in Plantation. we called him big guy.
Only have seen the Lime Green ones up close, which are turbocharged. One literally crossed the county Road near me in an instant! The critter here was pretty tame and wanted to strike a pose.
Apparently the first builder from Oleta River built up an area to the South from 2011 and opened in 2018. Virginia Key in Key Biscayne. Jeff Lenosky was part of the big day
interesting...i rode oleta and amelia earhart some...mostly markham and quiet waters (until it got destroyed by a hurricane the year we moved) though. looks like it might be open again now?
Markham Park and Oleta River State Park were quickest to recover from the mid-2000 Hurricanes. I'm assuming that's the around the time of the move? IIRC QW and AE actually took years to reopen; QW is maybe finally sorted today.
I did the math, it's about 1800', but point taken. The idea was to pack in laps over lunch break. (mine anyway) 2-3 vs one. It has a super good climb too.
Moar importantly, we shuttled nearly 3 miles of trail! And most importantly, we respected a time-honored tradition of pissing off the neighborhood with our shenanigans.
It's a good place to do that. We had some discussion as to where @rideit might have had his little mishap at Apex... the world may never know.You all could just get e-bikes and self-shuttle
I'm pretty sure I killed my back wheel (and tire, of course) on that same rock garden where FT and 'Squeeb are depicted.
I think I recognize that...
If they had loaded the bikes like that at Bromont today, they would have hit the pylons with the nasty wind swinging the chairs around...
yup, trex. they're berminating it. but at least they're only building up existing berms. that one trail section zoomed in opened a few weeks ago.
Nice.
Decent, although I'm not sure how much of the route I did would be rideable after a snow, it's up between about 5.5 and 7K, which tends to mean snow that falls around that time will be sticking around in places. Not all of the Highline trail is "good" for riding, but the sections I did were and I managed a 34 mile lollypop. Derrick trail was a short 1K elevation gain I used to get onto Highline, kinda shitty and loose, but I managed to clean it. Once on the Highline trail though, it was all good. I did Highline from that point to the 260 trailhead at the far East end, then back, then a short section of Highline to Horton Springs, which had some shitty hike-a-bike in addition to some gnarly descending, then back on Horton Springs, which was a hoot, but a lot of hikers too. I'd hit this again.
