6 August Cubanless MagLab Higher Ground Beginner Ride

The Cuban MagLab Higher Ground Beginner Rides: You need not be Cuban, MagLab, Higher Ground, nor Beginner to participate. Show up and ride with us! 13 AUGUST RIDE PLANS: Meet at Tom Brown Park's BMX Track, 6:30pm departure time! Again, we're looking good with the early commitments. Scattered showers means scattered! Don't chicken out. In any case, I'll be there rain or shine. 6 August notes: Biggest crowd yet!! Gotta peruse the photos to get an exact head count. We met at Piney Z, aka the Lafayette Heritage Trail Park parking lot. The beginner group had yet to ride the "lowside" of East Cadillac Trail. That's the first section we rode. It doesn't flow as well as in the opposite direction, but is too nice a section to miss. Out past the top of the Hill of Death at #57C to 56C then a left turn and down to the base of HoD aka the south end of the East Levee. From there across the East Levee for a peek at the North Beach. Retraced our ride across the East Levee, along the Lafayette Heritage doubletrack back to the parking lot. Next, NW and out the West Levee to check out the new gazebo. We then followed the doubletrack across Conner Creek to Tom Brown Park. At this point most of the group headed back to base camp. Taylor, Alicia, Fred and I rode a 2Km/1.25M loop on the Tom Brown hiking trails. We then took the Lafayette multiuse back till we veered onto the Loblolly Trail, then home. Track the ride here. Now we need Jose back from vacation. I'm no MC. Ken Foster gets mega-thanks yet again for awesome help corralling the tail end of the ride. Being a good dad, he brought Hannah and Colter again. Todd May again supplied some extra bikes from Higher Ground. Btw, check out the renovated website. My photographic dumba$$ery excuse this week: I managed to set aperture at f/10 (?) shooting AP, then was left wondering why the shutter was so slow even though I bumped the ISO all the way to 1600! Doh! Lots of blur, lots of photo deletions. If the ones I posted look this bad, just imagine what I deleted. I wonder what I'll screw up next time out. I'm uploading some dark shots with 'shopped "fill flash" (marked with an "a" appended to the file number). I'm including the originals as is so you may DIY as desired. 23 September jaunt through Maclay Gardens State Park here. 17 September mini gallery of our Piney Z mudfest is here. 10 September Munson's westside action is here. 3 September action is here. 27 August ride gallery is here. 20 August ride gallery is here. 13 August vid 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/