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Mountain Biking-Pocahontas SP

It was a great day as we rode two trails, for a total of 7 miles of riding in about 90 minutes.

Wednesday, June 5, 2013
Chesterfield, VA
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Hosted by TrailGuyEric

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Pocahontas State Park Mountain Bike Ride
Tuesday 6/05/2013
 
Rob and I met at the parking lot of the Science Center, Pocahontas State park and biked up the fire road which leads you to the trail head. The conditions were a perfect and the trails were in excellent shape.
 
At the trail head you have three choices, green (easy) about 2.1 miles; blue (intermediate) about 4.7 miles, and red (advanced) 2.6 miles. We chose the blue trail which was a great balance of twists and turns, logs to cross, exposed roots, as well as a few rocks to go over. The ride took about 45 minutes. 
 
We then headed down to the lake and the boat ramp. We crossed the bridge and proceeded to try a new trail, the Forest Exploration Trail, which we thought would be a nice leisure “post ride” ride. It was anything but as we trudged up a long gravel road to the top of a “mountain”. Just as we got to the top we found we still had a ways to go. The Forest Exploration Trail is just that, a trail that you explore the history of the area with abandoned homesites and placards of information on the forest and trees we continued down the back side of the hill and biked through a creek and back to the bridge and starting point. I’ll definitely be back to ride this trail.
 

It was a great way to end the day as we this trail was another 2.28 miles, for a total of 7 miles of riding in about 90 minutes. It was pretty strenuous in a few places but it was great exercise

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I have an extra Mountain Bike, so please feel free to borrow a bike and give this a try. No excuses for not trying out this trail!

A nice bike ride which will challenge you without making you wish you stayed home!  There are lots of great mountain biking trails in Pocahontas but we'll go on the easiest "green" trail with enough downhill to make up for some of the uphills.

http://www.dcr.virginia.gov/state_parks/poc.shtml

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