May 26, 2015
Memorial Day Monday I decided to go for a short ride at Slate Lick. the next two weeks are going to be extremely busy so I thought I should get in a ride while I still had time. I was feeling very laid back, and so was Simon, so we walked a good portion of the ride. It was perfect weather and I thoroughly enjoyed it.
I plan to give his loop a go in the somewhat near future, and strap the tracker to Daisy, so I can compare my mileage to hers. It should be pretty interesting.
For this ride I parked in the usual field that horse trailers parked. There were two already parked there when I arrived. I headed down the fire road, and took the right hand split to Slate Lick Run, past the closed gate, and the lake and into the woods.
I saw these puddles full of tad poles.
I let the dogs go for a quick swim at the end of the lake. There were a lot of butterflies out and about too.
Into the woods and following the well worn and marked path, I crossed the creek beds and saw a snake.
Eventually I came to the turn up hill to the right to take the short loop. I took it. Simon climbed the hill, Daisy bounced ahead. At the top we came to one of the peanut butter jar message bottles. I love these things. There were only a few messages, and I noticed that the dates were sort of spread out. This trail gets a lot of traffic and I figured the book would be full. nope. I added an entry.
This is also the point where the long loop meets up. On we went through the woods, enjoying the breeze.
Nothing special but a very pleasant ride.