Cherokee wrote on 11/26/17 at 12:08am:
Now your life is changed forever; no other trail will be good enough for you again!
RRT is awesome right now. Insanely beautiful with the maple and beech leaves glowing. The leaves on the trail aren't exactly ground up, but they're flattened enough to see the rocks and so forth. No problem at all riding except for a handful of places where they pool.
Yeah, great place to live as well.
I can see why it is the standard by which all other area trails are judged..
The leaves weren't thick, but they did conceal the trail in places which slowed me down a little (not a bad thing). I wanted to check out the whole thing, so I skipped the bypasses. Had to double back once or twice, but in generally the signage was adequate and I didn't have a problem following the trail.
I didn't do Death Valley, and decided to down climb the plunge.
There's always another day..
My old legs were a little wobbly afterwards. But it certainly provided that good, warm, fuzzy feeling.
A great mix of climbing, and moderate technical challenges. And it's very well maintained. Again, it's an incredible piece of work and we're lucky these folks allow us to use it.