Cloudlands Tour, Day 1
Winter is almost over in Chicago. Somewhere south Spring has arrived. Time for a road trip!
Perhaps troubled by fact the I had only ridden the minimum of ten miles in Georgia, this road trip's destination was Cloudlands State Park in northern Georgia with stops in Indiana, Kentucky, and Tennessee.
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| PLS: Muscatatuck NWR, Wood Duck Trail (4 miles) |
After a stretch-the-legs ride and lunch in Indiana. I arrive at Mammoth Cave National Park. It's still early, so I immediately unload my 29er hardtail. The national park's mountain bike trails are on the other side of the Green River. The Green River has no bridge. Instead it operates a ferry until 6pm. Should be plenty of time to get some mountain biking in.
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| Green River ferry |
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| Ferry lean |
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| Mammoth Cave NP has some nice single track |
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| But the concrete picnic tables are the worst |
When I camped here with Mona and the kids many years ago, we found a strange albino grasshopper. It wasn't until years later that I realized the albino grasshopper had wandered out of the cave system. Cave inhabitants are often albinos because color is useless in a cave.
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| O'Hara's Nitro Stout paired with homemade spaghetti |
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| Bike route through Mammoth Cave N.P. |
Next stop, Prentice Cooper State Forest.
| State: |
Kentucky |
| Date: |
2022-04-10 |
| Route: |
Mammoth Case NP: Campground to Big Hollow North Loop mountain bike trail |
| Distance: |
12 miles |
