A Not Riding Yet Day

I have - I don't know - maybe 40 acres of ledgy wooded land across the stream from my house that I have been wanting to put some trail on for years. I have a few exploratory threads started, but they tend to peter out in too wet, too steep, blowdown pickup sticks, whatever.

Late last fall I thought that I had worked out a good start at a perimeter loop, but there's a really disorienting patch of blowdown from an ice storm some years back and I have never managed to put together the same line twice running.

I spent a half a day in there Sunday wandering around and watching and listening and still no satori; eventually it's going to come together and a trail will emerge, but apparently not soon.

In the meantime, mosses and ferns are greening up even as the half thawed ground still crunches underfoot.