STA Trails - Hillside #2

A happy group of Divas -- SUN!, singletrack, and it's mostly downhill from here

wonderful light and ride at Kincaid

"there was wonderful light and it was a beautiful ride on the trails tonight!" Katherine

What rain?

Over a dozen Divas showed up to ride the Kincaid singletrack trails.
A few of them even remembered their fenders! - photo by Katherine.

Hillside Singletrack on a fine June evening

The clouds rolled in and the winds kept the mosquitos at bay -- a fine evening to climb (and descend!) the hills of the Hillside Singletrack.

building singletrack

Most of the Diva crew who worked on the new singletrack at Kincaid (plus a guy who wanted to be photographed with us -- not the first one!)

Katie and Rose shape the trail

Michele, Linda, and Katherine listen closely to instructions

Buzzing

Wednesday evening was beautiful, almost hot (!), and a large group gathered at Abbott Loop Community Park to ride. We broke into two groups - one to tour the lowlands, one to tour the Singletrack Advocate trails.


Beware of letting the person who just completed a 200+ mile tour lead an evening ride - she's smiling becuase it's cake to climb those STA hills

More fun ahead ....

may it always be fall

Earlier this summer I professed Powerline to be my favorite Divas ride of the summer. Now I must profess that fall may be my favorite time to ride in the parks of our fair city. Last September the woods seemed to glow. Maybe it just seemed that way after the gloomy summer we had, but I think the up-side to all that rain were very healthy, happy trees that were ready to end the season with a golden bang.

I don't know if the colors are as vibrant this year and it's hard to tell with a bright, sunny, glorious evening like we enjoyed on the STA trails on Wednesday evening. Ten of us pedaled 'backwards' up the Queen Bee and the Hive (okay -- there is no specified direction but we've always gone the other way). Four of us descended on the red trails. For the second time this summer, I've heard this singletrack network referred to as Disneyworld for mountain bikers. Amen!

Gloria, always smiling, especially on some lovely singletrack

A line of Divas pedaling up to Prospect Heights