- Santa Fe – WRL to Deep Ellum
Great ride with a high quality group yesterday. DP, Barnstormer, Don K and started at the Bath House around twice…one normal lap and one extended lap to downtown via Santa Fe Trail and Swiss Ave. Rode the mountain bike as I have sold my road bike to Chaser. (Note that I did not negotiate visiting rights with Chased to see my fine Allez that passed on, however, I expect to see you out on the next ride). The mountain bike loop was a good one as we added some extra hills and trails around the outside of the normal WRL . As some of you know the City of Dallas http://www.friendsofsantafetrail.org/ got funding years ago to establish a trail leveraging former rail lines from White Rock Lake to Deep Ellum. On our second lap around the lake we took a turn south up and over the Loving Hill to West Shore Drive. We went south on West Shore just past La Vista to find the new Santa Fe Trail…still in development, but the concrete is still hard enough to ride on…except for a minor 100 foot section that was hardpack dirt/gravel. ON a dry day, a road bike could easily handle it. Once we made it over Woodrow Wilson we had nice paved trail all the way to Deep Ellum. It was a nice link all the way to downtown. We cruised downtown and then took Swiss Avenue back up to WRL. Great ride. See you all next Sunday!
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