11 June Cuban MagLab Higher Ground Beginner Ride

A suggestion for the next ride (18 June). Start at Lafayette Heritage Trail Park (where we turned around last week). Head out Lower Cadillac, perhaps play at Cuban Air Lines and Hill of Death, cross East Levee toward Alford. Cross RR tracks, ride Coupe de Ville (singletrack section of Alford) to Field 3, continue anticlockwise around the ~900 acre park's perimeter. Oval at top is Observation Circle neighborhood - not actually part of the park. Finish Alford loop, back across the tracks, ride section of Lower Cadillac we didn't do on the way out. Regroup at the parking lot where we started. At this point, we will have done almost 10M. Those wanting more may head toward Tom Brown Park on Loblolly, Upper Cadillac, and/or Lafayette Heritage Trail.

Where we rode 11 June, from this GPS track, loaded into Google Earth and saved as jpeg.

Ok, I failed to get a shot of the start of the ride. That's shown on the video. In this shot, we're regrouping at the Victory Garden Drive / Fern Trail crossing. That's ride co-leader Ken Foster (r). We're around a mile and a half from the start.

Continuing eastward back into Fern Trail from Victory Garden.

More of the gang at the Victory Garden stop.

This is the Polos on Park bivouac.

Another look as the gang leaves Polos to head into East Fern's Bog Loop.

Here, we've completed the north half of the Bog Loop. We're adjacent to the NE entrance to the Bog Loop, along the main creek.

Same scene, panning left.

Looking back westward along the creek.

The group rides the north boundary of Tom Brown Park on Goose Pond Trail.

Goose Pond Trail continues for ~1.5M through Tom Brown Park, from Weems Road to Conner Blvd.

Our good sized group spills over the trail's edges.

The leaders decide to head into Tom Brown Park's Magnolia Trail at trail marker #57.

We're well into Cadillac Trail here, at trail marker #11C. To our left is The Tub, to our right is Lafayette Heritage (multiuse) Trail.

Deciding whether to continue on Cadillac, or take the multiuse.

Mike waits at Chuck's west overlook while the group discusses the answer to life, the universe, and everything.

Hannah and Ken head uphill to join the group at 11C.

Jubilation as we're heading back home on Lafayette Heritage Trail.

At Chuck's west overlook adjacent to #11C (Cadillac) and #13 (Lafayette Heritage).

Drizzle, drazzle, drozzle, drome, time for these ones to come home.