Nov. 25, 2005 Goulds to Foxtrap ATV Run: (22 Photos)

22.   What better way to spend a beautiful Sunday afternoon then to spend it in the woods. Chris Hodinott and I had been talking about getting out for a run on the bikes for awhile now, but as usual stuff came up and plans got postponed.

21.   Today everything finally worked out so we loaded up my Honda Foreman, and Chris's Yamaha 660 Grizzly and headed to our drop off point on Northern Pond Road. Leaving the trucks we aimed to reach the Foxtrap Pasturelands (in the vicinity of 1000 acre marsh).

20.   Riding in the Northern Pond Road we passed the gravel pits and took the first woods road on the right hand side. (not to be confused with small bike paths) Following the correct direction in series of forks in the trail we ended up on the Pasturelands.

19.   Following the wrong set of forks will stick you in the middle of nowhere sharing company with only a few Moose. It was late in the year so the pasture lands were vacant, I don't go in there when the fields are full of cows. Turning right we headed out through the fields and rode Pastureland Road towards the highway.

18.   Along the way we stopped to play in a nice gravel pit that offered a couple fun climbs on both sheer rock and loose gravel. I love testing the capabilities of Project Foreman on obstacles like these.

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13.   Once we tired of that we continued on out the road to the transmission line.

12.   There were two paths to the pole line from the road, one winds through the woods and one skirts the bottom end of Dog Pond.

11.   We chose the latter as it's messier and more interesting then the newer more defined path. Reaching the Pole Line on the far side of the pond, we found some easy mud holes and some nice off camber obstacles to climb.

10.   This area known as the Dog Hills is a great year round place to play. It great for rock crawling on ATV in the summer and hill climbing on snowmobile in the winter.
 

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8.   At the top of the first hill we stopped for a lunch. Nothing special this trip, just a quick sandwich and we were back on the bikes for more trail riding!

7.   We headed further up the pole line for a bit to scout out the trail for a future trip, pausing here and there check out some hills near the pole line. We made our own path and reached the top of this spectacular granite hill overlooking the surrounding countryside.

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4.   Ever shorter Fall days meant evening was approaching ever too quickly so we turned around and headed back towards the trucks the same way we came.

3.   Along the way we burned up the last bit of daylight in the old gravel pit on Northern Pond Road which was only a couple minutes away from the trucks.

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1.   It was an awesome day, we didn’t cover a lot of distance but that's OK too. I love slow rocky trails like the Pole Line, it tests the limits of traction, improves balance and rider skill. A great way to spend a beautiful fall day.