I doubt that anyone reads this blog closely enough to recall my last foray up Mt. Hor. Willoughby State Forest is a big old state forest next to Lake Willoughby. It's got some trails and forest roads that are very awesome. For awhile, I've been trying to figure out how to get into the forest from the north. I finally figured it out (Big Valley Lane). I have a mediocre map of the forest and the late, great Dave Blumenthal did some mapping through there as part of XVT, but I kept taking some wrong turn and ending up back on RT 16. Once in the state forest, I ended up deviating from the road and riding/walking all the way to the Mt. Hor summit. Descending from Mt. Hor back to the CCC road was pretty exciting on a 'cross bike.
I also did some exploration closer to Shadow Lake and found an awesome descent down from the Sheffield Square area on Quarry Road back to RT 16, which led me to a climb that brought me through the Black Hills and right back to Shadow Lake. That was quite a find, but the final descent back to the lake was super muddy and kind of ruined my bike.
Anyway, it was a weekend of yard work and class 4 roads (I believe I was on a few that had been reclassified with trail status).
I got a new camera, what do you think of the image quality?
Next week I plan to explore Dunn Mountain.
2 comments:
The image quality is impressive. The last photo especially.
Do you think you could bring the mountains and the clear blue lake back down with you next time?
We need them here.
I'll see what I can do. They're a lot heavier than they look.
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