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Wake up at 4:30am, arrive at trailhead and gear up with lights on bike. On bike before 6am. Fresh snow overnight is the reason for a early start.
With a powerful light beam from my NightRider Pro 1200 light it is a very cool start to the ride. This is a massive cottonwood tree on the bank of the Minnesota River.
The beauty of the fresh snow and early start is the animal sign in the snow. This is the fresh tracks and belly slide of an Otter. Cool because I crossed his tracks, I saw where the Otter left the river and bounded through the woods to access this creek.
As I rode along the river I came to this huge tree with a hollow trunk.
Heading back to my truck at the trailhead it was a view of the river that I had to stop and soak it all in. It is very cool to enter the woods in the dark and feel the temps drop as the sun rises. I was on my bike at 6:00am and arrived back at the truck at 10:30am. This ride included several stops to observe, listen to the river bottoms wake up.
Ride on!
