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October Rides

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Le Tour at KBS RR Solo ride Abandoned siding Probably the original rails laid down 140 years ago Mainline is still active on rare jointed rail Illinois clouds look similar to Minnesota clouds Maybe is it is to cars  😁 CSX installing new welded rail Bark-less tree Wider view Raleigh at the North Fork Clouds over harvested soybean field Diamond Back on 1550E Dust from the combine blew well into town Raleigh at the North Fork Copy-catting Gregs's cloud photos again The sun is sinking rapidly these days Thought the sun backlighting the foxtails was kind of interesting  

Kennekuk County Park

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 With Dwight and Dave Absolutely perfect day Dave and Dwight preparing to ride General scenes follow Poison Ivy climbing the tree trunk Trying to ID those white flowers --- Snakeroot???? Dwight's Polygon Just on the other side of the building is Lorrence Pioneer Cemetery Thoughts of peaceful repose as we rode by The Dam across Windfall Creek creating the lake Artifacts of the Kickapoo people were discovered during construction Glacially polished and flattened boulder holds a plate commemorating Lake Mingo Lake Mingo Leaving the Lake Overlook Mallard Point Bank of the Middle Fork exposing loess at the top and possibly two glacial till members below D/D conferring:   Why did we let Rich lead this?? Hike and Bike only gravel road back to White Oak Barn That question would be confirmed shortly as we had to climb a steep slope with cobble sized gravel Education Center For a cool million dollars someone gets to name it Dwight rolling back to the truck Loaded up and homeward bou...