Which translates to "New Beer Run" for the uninitiated.  Go to riding partner Dave suggested checking out the recent rebuild on the Beer Run, and seeing what the Grattons have been up to.

Looks like a lot of chainsaw work.  This bridge on the Upper Beer Run (UNBR?) looks to be the latest, but there’s plenty of rebuilds throughout the trail. 

Which we didn’t bother to take pics of, but that’s because it’s terribly good out there right now.  More than half of the trail has been fixed up, although rest assured there’s still plenty of that old malt flavour to remind you that it’s still the Beer Run.

Fall Bonus!  The larch trees just dropped their needles.  LOTR might be more appropriate right now.

Nice work boys.  Great to see so much love thrown at the trails lately. 

We also went for a drive on some the newer logging roads up above the Mice, which I’ve been wanting to do for a while.  We got up to 5300′ and summer tires weren’t working so well on the snow.  It’s not much further to the end, and from there you’re only 400′ from the high point.

Lots of prime terrain up there, although it’s over mature forest and finding the route might be challenging.   A quick line check on Google Earth shows that there’s only a few km of trail to link together to make this happen.  That’s a full 5k’ vertical drop there.   Food for thought over the snowy months to come…