Firsts at the PR

For A's second ride on her new mountain bike, we'd planned a rather easy place, but we started running short on time and A decided to fix that by switching to the much closer Private Reserve. E has been pushing hard for a ride there since we started bike shopping, because it's his current favorite place. I had hoped we might go for A's third or fourth ride, after working up to it. A did a great job, including riding a tough descent right at the start which I thought would be too tough.

E rode the whole long wooden bridge that he and I have been walking before today. I still haven't ridden it! We ride down a series of switchbacks, then there's a sharp left just before a large rock which drops the rider down around 8" onto a long, rickety narrow wooden bridge which is off-camber and has a bend in the middle. The bridge is over a dry riverbed and like most PR bridges it looks likely to collapse within the year.

A little later, E made his first crossing of a stream on a bridge made of roundish stones loosely piled in the water. I'd only crossed it once before.

I had no firsts today. In fact, I clearly need to do more work here or I'll soon be left behind!