Return to LA

Finally got back to Lower Alabama after some fun times in the woods; managed to hike/bike at Mount Cheaha as well as Oak Mountain plus the hellishly awesome Snake Creek Gap Time Trial. Aside from the flat I had on Oak Mountain which cut my ride short due to malfunctioning co2 was good times and a great way to break into the new year.



I've never taken the time to hike the many trails at Oak Mountain that are closed to bikes before but wow are they pretty. It had just rained a little bit as I was coming into the park and there was a long line of cars exiting so I ended up having the trails entirely to myself. Some parts were heavily shrouded in fog which added to mysterious beauty of mountains and trees. Towards the end of my hike I had a deer shadow me for a few minutes with a huge fluffy white tail, just on the edge of the fog until it decided to run off.



Cheaha was a lot more crowded than Oak Mountain, of course it was New Year's Day, so I guess there was a lot of people out starting their resolutions and such. I messed around on the Mountain Express and played with the Gorilla Pod, which is really hard to use to get pictures of stuff in motion, although really good if you just want to be able to take self portraits or have an extremely portable tripod. There wasn't another soul on the Mountain Express but the boardwalk and the Pinhoti connector were swarming with hikers.



Need to clean off the bike as well as clean out the truck after mostly living out of it for ~5 days and then summarize the awesomeness and the suckness of SCG #1.

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