CDT 1: Pickin’ Beargrass with my Handlebars (in the rain)

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CDT 1: Pickin’ Beargrass with my Handlebars (in the rain)

Easy first few miles until rock creek (?) trail, then painful steep hike a bike. At top trail improves drastically to Bluebird Lake (super pretty!), then trail becomes narrow and seldom used but still mostly ridable (minus the climbs). Epic views up high when the clouds parted. The wildflowers were tremendous but the beargrass supreme. Temps in the upper 40’s with rain most of the day. Useful lessons have been learned about which bike bags are waterproof (see: none of them). Mild delays early in the day caused by abundance of wild strawberries

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