Timmy Tracks

This last Sunday I went for a ride up to Mineral Point on the Cheese County Trail. This trail follows an old rail way bed. It is flat and is actually a good work out as there are no hills to coast down. On my way up the trail I ran into several sections of trail that were flooded. The first section was maybe two or three inches. Then as I got farther down the trail I ran into the next section that was about an 1/8 of a mile long and up to my hubs. At first going along I was half pedaling along trying not to get my feet wet. It took all of 5 minutes before my feet were soaked and i said the heck with it and just forged ahead like a motor boat. After another 4 miles down trail, somewhere between Calamine and Mineral Point, I ran into snapping turtle trying to get up to high ground. I was amazed at how big he was, about twelve inches in diameter. He was all wrinkly and cute.

Farther down the trail past Mr Turtle I came to my last big section of flooding. At first the water was lightly running down the trail and as I pedaled on up the trail It seemed it was getting deeper and the flow stronger. Sure it was, it just so happened that at that moment the stream was just flowing over its banks and flowing down the trail. Water was way up past my bottom bracket. It was quite the effort to pedal up stream, I feel for all those spawning salmon now.

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