first ride on a mountain bike trail

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Lion's Club next weekend sounds good! Let me know if you want to do it and when. I've wanted to try the Al Foster trail, but alas, not this weekend. I'm choreographing for fine arts camp in Jeff City. No time for bikes.

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today I went to al foster trail again. It was hot, but still seemed to be lots of mud. But before I got to the part where al foster joins stinging nettle, I ran over some dog poop and splashed it all over my leg and my bike. I got the clumps off with a stick, and poured some water on my leg so I didn't have to smell it the whole ride.
I stayed on the upper part of stinging nettle- I had my hands full just with the mud there, didn't want to try the steep parts and dips combined with the mud again. I ended up over at castlewood, on river scene trail. I did walk the part along the river- with the steep dropoff on one side and I've discovered I have a tendency to fall over in mud, I didn't risk it. I rode around river scene trail, just to kinda get a alook at castlewood, then headed back. When the trail got real close to the river, I laid my bike down and waded out into the river to get my head wet, and wash off my leg better.
I rode the rest of way soaking wet, but it felt good. I got muddy after that anyway. My bike was covered with mud again, I think I'll let it dry and brush it off today. Lots of people on the trail today- more hikers than anything else.
saw a great place to take the dogs sometime where they can play in the water at castlewood. Next time I think I'll try parking at castlewood and checking out any easy trails there, hopefully with less mud. The castlewood trails seemed very sandy.
vickie