Fantasy Island Redux

Today we were back out at Fantasy Island. We wanted to ride from the north end to see if it's any less sandy and rocky than the south end. That would be a big no. We started the Lone Cactus loop at Irvington. I did not enjoy it, there's no warm up at all, and one is immediately thrust in to deep rocky washes. Eventually we made it to the circle where one picks up the second half of the loop.

There has been a lot of erosion on the trails, rocks have been mating and breeding since we were here in the spring. This trail is looking very unattractive.


Bicycle art on the island.

Here we are at the Half Pipe. I cleaned it! I lost my nerve mid pipe, but I walked back to the start of it and did it again without putting a foot down. Yea for me. At the end of the down hill there is a deep sand pit, in which I became trapped, and thus had to do some uphill walking.

The usual Sand Trap at the end of Lone Cactus is now huge. It's sucking cars in to it. Enter with caution.
Here is an ant hill.

So after returning to the north end of the park, we set out to see how things are along the fence line, which is our usual route back to the south parking lot. Things are dire. The sand is just awful! So we set out cross country along the power line, and found a nice old jeep trail that heads south. Eventually it intersects the Bunny Trail, and provides a good route back to the car.
Tomorrow we're going to try Snake Dance to Rez Loop to Fire Loop to Christmas Tree Loop to Lone Tree Loop back to Bunny Trail. That should give us 16 miles or so and keep us off the icky half of Lone Tree and the fence line.
I realize this is not interesting to most of you, but for the people who ride out there, it's a trail report.