Anyone up for a run of Shoe Creek and/or Big Levels on Saturday, March 5th or Sunday, March 6th (weather permitting)? The two trails are about 20 miles apart and short enough to do in one day.
Full GPS info for Big Levels is here. I took a shot at getting a full route for Shoe Creek yesterday, but was running it solo and wasn't happy with the combination of that and the sheet ice that's still up there in places so turned back, but figure it should be melted off in the next week or two. Google Earth and Garmin's BaseCamp are both failing at identifying two-thirds of the trail, so if you want to get a rough feel for where it is use N37 47.263 W79 06.173 for the South trailhead, and N37 50.861 W79 07.314 for the North end.
Video on Youtube of a motorcyclist running it South to North: lower half, upper half. There's about another 4 miles of trail past the point where the second video ends that leads out to the North trailhead, but it's pretty much your standard trail ride. Couple of geocaches along the way, and about a 1-mile hike up to the top side of Crabtree Falls for anyone who may be interested.
Let me know if you're interested and we'll start figuring out who, when, and where.
Full GPS info for Big Levels is here. I took a shot at getting a full route for Shoe Creek yesterday, but was running it solo and wasn't happy with the combination of that and the sheet ice that's still up there in places so turned back, but figure it should be melted off in the next week or two. Google Earth and Garmin's BaseCamp are both failing at identifying two-thirds of the trail, so if you want to get a rough feel for where it is use N37 47.263 W79 06.173 for the South trailhead, and N37 50.861 W79 07.314 for the North end.
Video on Youtube of a motorcyclist running it South to North: lower half, upper half. There's about another 4 miles of trail past the point where the second video ends that leads out to the North trailhead, but it's pretty much your standard trail ride. Couple of geocaches along the way, and about a 1-mile hike up to the top side of Crabtree Falls for anyone who may be interested.
Let me know if you're interested and we'll start figuring out who, when, and where.
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