Thursday, April 5, 2012

New Section of Experimental Forest

So after seeing that map yesterday that I posted, I noticed in a small corner a portion of the CEF (Clemson Experimental Forest) that I had never ventured into, but had been close to many times. This portion in in between Old Central Road and Madden Bridge Road. The "Ingles" run that we call it with running club, which explores some of the central trails that I've posted before (here is the route) ends up on Old Central and then goes over until it reaches Hwy 93 (Old Greenville Hwy). Today I was feeling adventurous, and even though I had just run 7 trail miles yesterday, I decided to look for this mysterious dirt road that showed up in this area. Sure enough I found it off of mountain dale rd, and ventured down it. This road ended up being pretty awesome, basically it weaved between a couple of different power cuts heading towards the major power grid near downtown central. At one point I even crossed a pretty awesome creek in the middle of a field! All in all it was a crazy run and I ended up going farther than I had planned because I stuck with this road. Here is the route I ran today, and while it may not be a good mountain biking trail, it made for a quite adventurous run!
 This is the route of the power road, there were several others that branched off which I obviously didn't have the time (or stamina) to explore today

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