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10 September Cubanless MagLab Beginner Ride

NEXT RIDE: Thursday, 17 September, meet at the Lafayette Heritage Trail Park's parking lot, aka Piney Z. 6:30pm meet and pump up tires, 6:45 ride departs. Cadillac, Loblolly, Lafayette Heritage multiuse trail... Sunset on Thursday, 17 September at 7:40, and it begins to darken under the trees before that. 10 September ride report: See also the 27 August page for our last group ride out here. We met at the St. Marks Bike Trail's parking lot with plans to ride the west "side" of Munson Hills Trail. With a planned 6:45pm departure time, we'd have just over one hour before sunset. Entering the woods directly from the parking lot, after 800m/0.5M, we turned onto the doubletrack, headed west on it for ~100m, then right on Munson Hills Trail another 100m to the Tall Pine Shortcut's north terminus. That was our first rendezvous point. From there, we followed the 1M/1.6Km Tall Pine Shortcut to its south end and our second rendezvous. Next, we headed westward on Munson Hills Trail 0.4M/630m to its south powerline crossing...third rendezvous. Next up was "Wally World," the 2.27M/3.65Km section of Munson west of the powerline. That led us to our fourth rendezvous, Munson's north powerline crossing. Continuing clockwise on Munson, we rolled the final 1.35M/2.17Km back to Tall Pine Shortcut's north end. A few had to leave early (I'd temporarily flagged the entrance/exit), but we had sufficient daylight to add a tack-on section. I went from photo/caboose duty to lead and headed 1.19M/1.92Km to the south end of the Paper Cup entrance. This was our last rendezvous with just Paper Cup's 1.02M/1.65Km between us and the parking lot. A few Munson Hills/Twilight Zone Trail links of interest: Ken Foster's Munson Hills blog. Dixie Davis, Linc Clay, and Ken Foster's Fans of Munson Hills/Twilight Off-Road Bike Trails Facebook page. Jim Schmid's Munson/Twilight Mtn Bike Trails blog. USDA Forest Service's National Forests in Florida blog post. My Munson/Twilight Zone pages. 23 September jaunt through Maclay Gardens State Park here. 17 September mini gallery of our Piney Z mudfest is here. 3 September Forestmeadows/Phipps/Red Bug ride action is here. 27 August funtime at Munson Hills Trail is here. 20 August ride gallery is here. 13 August stuff is here. 6 August ride vids and photos are here. 16/30 July ride fun is here. 23 July ride was canceled for a MagLab student going away party. 9 July ride photos are here. 2 July ride was canceled (weather call). 25 June ride photos are here. 18 June ride photos are here. 11 June ride gallery is here. 4 June ride was canceled (weather call). THIS SITE is private property, and doesn't necessarily represent any other individual or organization. You are welcome to download/use my photos for your private enjoyment, including printing them. Any other usage/linking must come from me in writing (email ok), with credit given. Questions, pre-scoldings, comments, ID, complaints? Thanks, John Kalin Email me "If I fall you're going down with me" - Trail running advice from my Dixie Chicks http://www.tallahasseetrails.com/
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  • Before the group arrived, I pedaled in to get a distance from the parking lot to our first rendezvous point. It's 1Km/0.62M from the parking lot's trail entrance to the north terminus of the Tall Pine Shortcut. Uh, if you come in the way I did. GPS has been on the fritz. When I'm able, I'll do my best to post a track of what we ended up riding.

    Before the group arrived, I pedaled in to get a distance from the parking lot to our first rendezvous point. It's 1Km/0.62M from the parking lot's trail entrance to the north terminus of the Tall Pine Shortcut. Uh, if you come in the way I did. GPS has been on the fritz. When I'm able, I'll do my best to post a track of what we ended up riding.

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