Bear (Bare?) skin Trail ride

Went for a ride along the Bearskin Bike Trail this morning. It's a gorgeous ride through a state forest, along an old railbed. Supposedly, one day it will connect with my normal ride on the Hiawatha trail, but for now I have to drive up to Highway K to the trail head. I rode about 6 miles in on the trail before turning to head back out. Great riding, crosses the Bearskin Creek a dozen times on wooden bridges. The bridges' surfaces are a little damaged from the snowmobiles in the winter, but still not too bad. The trail is surfaced with rotten granite rather than compacted limestone, but it's kept very well groomed. A narrow-tired bike might have a little trouble, but I thought it was a fine surface. The only critters I saw today were a couple of turtles on their logs, trout under one bridge along the creek, the usual assortment of eagles, and a blue heron fishing near the beaver pond (first picture) where I turned around. Click on the pics: { gallery [bearskinsmall] }