Today, we ride! Both bike shops pointed us to trails just North of town. It’s actually kind of funny – you go North on 8th Street, until it becomes a dirt road … and this dirt road is appropriately named … 8th Street Road. No, really! I thought it was kind of cool, but then, I’m easily amused.

So we decide to ride what is labeled as a 12 mile loop, first riding the Kestral Trail (yes, with an “a” – don’t ask me!), following that with the Crest Line Trail, which leads you to Sidewinder Trail, and finally you take Hulls Gulch Trail back to the start. It climbed gently at first, then got progressively more aggressive, but it never went totally out of control like old Bangtail did! This is a photo of Boise from somewhere up top:

Yeah, there are trails along there somewhere, I know, I rode them!

One part that connects Sidewinder to Hulls Gulch is a motorcycle trail. STEEP downhill (boy, was I glad I had that collapsible seat post!), which kind of burned up my rear brake. It started squealing like a stuck pig, and when I looked at it after we got back, it’s now discolored – I’d say it got REAL hot!

The interesting part is that when we got done, we’d only gone six miles, so maybe he did it as an out-and-back … you know, the loop … as an out-and-back … ok, never mind.

But it was fun, and that’s what counts!

Tomorrow morning, go to Les Schwabb Tire to see about getting PUP fixed. Evidently they do house calls.