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| Trail Creek Road |
Decided to head off for a road ride since the weather was absolutely perfect. We had not biked Trail Creek Road this summer and thought with the cooler morning it would be the ideal day to bike out to Paradise Valley. The road starts paved, but as you get closer to the divide between Gallatin & Park Counties you hit gravel.
Unfortunately, we were passed by a couple of gravel trucks while on the paved portion which made us think...uh oh. As luck would have it the gravel trucks were dumping on a driveway, but we noticed the huge clouds of dust from the gravel road past the driveway. It looked like the road had recently had some new gravel dumped on it. Since that makes for a nasty & dirty ride we cut it short at a little over 6 miles & turned back towards the truck.
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| Goose Creek Road |
A mile or so into our ride we had noticed the US Forest Service sign for Goose Creek...maybe that would be a good side ride up the mountain. Both of us thought a 12-mile ride just wasn't 'long enough.' Weird right? Who would think that anything under 20 miles isn't long enough!
The Goose Creek Road did head up the hillside towards Trail Creek & Bear Canyon trails. The road was in pretty good shape & had recently been graded. A few rocks and some soft 'moon dust' aka soft dirt, but it didn't cause us any trouble.
We reached FR 440 toward Bear Canyon & decided to turn back towards the truck. The overall ride was exactly 20 miles once we reached the truck.
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| Bill heading downhill towards the Bridgers |
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| A dead garter snake |
The only critters spotted were a few deer and 2 dead garter snakes. Still seeing a fair number of wildflowers blooming...mostly Indian Paintbrush, Lupine & various thistles. On the downhill we had a nice view of the Bridger Range.
Another ride to add to our list...20.3 miles in 2 hours with elevation gain of 1889 feet.
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| Mountain view from Goose Creek Road |
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| Scarlet Indian Paintbrush |
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