River to River Episode 3: Return to the Scene of the Crime
To be clear, while the legality of cycling on the River to River Trail falls into the gray range of the color scale, the crime I'm referring to was perpetrated upon us by both the trail and our own hubris (entered into evidence below). “If no one comes from the future to stop you from doing it, then how bad of a decision can it really be?” - anonymous Would a warning from the future have even helped when those of our past selves went unheeded? Let the record show that Chuck and I made our first attempt at riding all the bike legal (non-Wilderness) sections of the R2R* in 2018. A multi-surface, multi-use trail with heavy equestrian presence, it met us with immediate resistance, which I detailed in numerous blog posts about the experience(s). Exhibit 1 (March 2018): “We rarely ride more than 50 feet at a time. Bikepacking here, I tell Chuck, is like mule-packing, but you have to push and pull and carry the mule as well. I wonder if I'll be able to lift my arms tomorrow. It'
