Mark approaches parallax on the new trail he built.
Rode Galbraith with Mark, who had just finished building a new trail off the Tower Trail he calls Wonderland.
Mark's new trail is pretty hard to spot at the top. When I mentioned this, he pointed out a small branch he'd broken to mark the entrance, but I never would have noticed this at speed.
If you know where to go through the looking glass, though, you can duck through a seemingly impenetrable wall of brush into a mellow second growth spruce woods with a lot of old cedars lying on the forest floor among the old growth stumps.
The trail drops at first after leaving the Tower Trail, then swings across a bench to
another drop followed by a brief climb to where it rejoins the Tower Tail, after the steep
off-camber rock and the first steep pitch.
Wonderland is already rideable, and looking about the terrain, we both agreed that it could be extended and elaborated a great deal.
It rained on the drive into Bellingham again, and again it was actually sunny on
Galbraith for much of our ride.
Approximately 1200 verts.
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