| | Pine Barn Inn is our host. They offer rooms, breakfast and more! | |
| | | We will provide light food, beverages and registration in the bar area. | |
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| | The staging area for the race is this parking lot. It will be marked race day. | |
| | | Racers run 1/4 mile down Bloom Road to lovely Memorial park. | |
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| | From Memorial park we turn onto Upper Mulberry street | |
| | | Mulberry street climbes upwards to Middle Street. | |
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| | Middle street climbes to Resevoir Street. Look for water tanks. | |
| | | The trail starts behind the water tanks, and look, it is still climbing! | |
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| | You will soon see the Sidler Hill cemetary...spooky! | |
| | | Sidler Hill is an abandoned Welsh cemetary the middle of the woods. | |
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| | Most sites belong to children, killed mine workers or the occasional old person. | |
| | | After climbing approx. 800' to this point, you may want a plot for yourself! | |
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| | Sidler hill trail takes you to an old washed-out logging road. | |
| | | The logging road yields to a mossy, rocky, single track trail. | |
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| | This trail continues to climb on some sketchy terrain. | |
| | | Racer will experience a utility line clearing and some grassy trails. | |
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| | The utility line trail climbs to the next section of single track. | |
| | | Still going uphill, but at less of an incline. Catch your breath! | |
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| | Some nice sections of trail traverse the hill. Mostly rolling hills. | |
| | | I realize the bike is cheating, but I wanted to show some scale. | |
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| | Next section is a trail we call "Fun City". It is a climb to a fun downhill. | |
| | | "Fun City" leads to "Widow maker". Do I need to say more? Then a long downhill | |
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| | At the bottom of the downhill, we cross a bridge and then head back up. | |
| | | After the bridge, the trail goes upward as shown on the left of this photo. | |
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| | This trail is 6+ miles into the run. It climbs about 500' in less than 1/4 mile | |
| | | It is a calve burner that will be even more interesting if we have snow and mud. | |
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| | Notice the angle that the trees are growing out of the ground. | |
| | | This is the last "nastiness" at the top of the hill. From here, 3/4 mile back. | |
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| | At the end, celebrate your accomplishment and tell war stories at Pine Barn. | |
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