Rode here for the first time Friday night and these are some great trails in amazing shape! That said, I’m looking to find some people that maybe know the trails here because it’s hard to put a loop together for someone new

Great! How about tomorrow night at 6 -6:30 meet at Bridgewater Rd trailhead?

Actually I’m not out that way today anyways so all good!

Rode last night and while a bit slick in sections, not much mud and still fun. trails are all hard pack and rain doesn’t really effect at all – well just a bit slippy.

I don’t know if many people read this, but I think sadly access to the swan lake portion of Jefferson Forest has been completely cutoff.

If you don’t know the history here, the Swan Lake property is managed by the TRCA and because they host school groups on the property, the area is marked as private property. They only started to post private property signs about 3-4 years ago, after I was clotheslined in the neck by a black climbing rope tied between two trees on their property (I also found two others). Not to go on a tangent there, but I reported it to the police and in the end one of the employees at swan lake admitted to putting up the ropes. But that’s another story…

Now, they’ve fenced off access to that northern part of the forest AND some of the trails have been completely blocked and covered with deadfall.

Pretty sad to find that, to be honest. I am guessing they kept seeing people “trespassing” during the day when school groups were in there. I admit to going on those trails, but only did so at night when the property is empty.

In other news, it also looks like (who I assume is DMBA) have put up new trail intersection marking posts, similar to what are found in Walkers Woods and Durham. Hopefully the trails themselves are not mucked with……

:/