Allegeny National Forest Quad Ride

Jenn and I got the chance to hit the ANF with the quad over the weekend of August 11th.

We have been riding around the chatau and home as much as we could but the ANF has been said to be great riding.

Heading up we have begun being a creature of comfort..eating at Phil's about every time. You can see here Iggy was with us but had to stay outside..BTW the tea was TERRIBLE!

Saturday we were up early headed to the trail head in marinville. There are several trail head but we picked the main one since we have no idea what the heck we were doing. We did get a pass at Russell Store..in Russell City and a Birch Beer (Cheers Mom!)

More on the trails can be found here or google it. http://www.visitmarienville.com/atv.htm

Our first trail was the ATV trail, it was fairly easy and only about 2 hours around the loop. Its nice becuse its one way but its a long way between access point..so don't take your crappy quad! it takes forever to get out with broken machines.

Our second trail was the Bike loop. The .gov site states it takes 4-6 hours on a atv to do the trail. Nonsense! I'll be much faster. Well its a great trail but you can see on the next picture it has a good amount of rocks.

( to the left) That is the trial...miles of it

Well its 28 miles long and it took almost 4 hours. It was muddy, it had hill climbs and pubble and rocks. Sure there was rest areas and places to relax going from here to there but it was tough.

The next picture is one of the runways up to a road crossing. We took a break and sipped on gatorade..

I've been trail riding since I was 10 years old on my hodaka dirt squirt, but by far the ANF was the best time I've had on the trails. Its tough and legal.

We did not see much wild life..few deer and such but there are bear signs around so campers stash their food in a tree..so the bear eat the people?

Well we're headed for Montana in a few weeks. Maybe we can get some bears there.