Lights of Huntsville blazing in the valley below my free campsite.
Set my time pieces ahead to daylight. Woke in the dark. Meeting Gracie @ 9:30 so i had a schedule to meet. Nobody up in XG. Drove to bike parking TH. Got to thinking that I might have moved a time zone West. Checked the rand Mcnally and learned AL is central time. Putzed around @ Gracie arrived @ real 9:30.
We headed out on Monte Santo trails, Gracie is a skilled & strong rider: 11 years younger, great shape, and living successfully w/ MS. Trails are a bit technical but nowhere near so as Snake Gap. Good riding, picking better lines over tech stuff. Learned @ Pisgah to let the 5.5″ of suspension help me out more than I let it previously. Hip whipping the turns. 14.76 miles & 1510′ vert.
No leaves on trees. Spring woods flowers coming up to bloom. A bit overcast & humid. Sunburned my arms
Followed Gracie down the mtn, she showed me Jamie & Morgan’s house where I will stay out front tonight. I offered to show pictures of my trip and Gracie is working on that.
Gracie let me mow her yard.
Humid day, temp almost 80.
Monte Santo is on top of a short mountain several hundred feet above Huntsville. Bike trails are hand made twisting around trees & dealing w/ rocks like PA rocks. I was concerned on how technical it would be, I was envisioning trails rougher than Snake gap but rode everything.