Saturday Bike Trail Blogging Week #3

This week's photo album is located here

Well, I've decided to change the Friday feature to Saturday as it's now been 2 straight weeks that I haven't been able to leave work, take pictures, upload and annotate and then put the blog entry out. I didn't get out of work last night until 7:30pm or so and add the 35 minute bike ride and pictures, I didn't get home until almost 9pm. But I still took some pictures of another not-as-used area on the trail system so I hope they still give you a feeling what the trails are like.

This week I highlighted part of the Barton Creek Greenbelt but one that isn't used as much as some of the other areas. It's kinda separated from the rest of the trail system as it has a point of crossing across Barton Creek but usually, there's water in the creek so you have to get wet to get on that side if you come from the main BCG trail. The only other "official" entrance is off Homedale Dr. just behind Barton Creek Elementary (there are a few other trailheads on St. Mark's Church property). From the "official" trailhead, it goes up quite steeply over some loose limestone rocks and it can be a fair challenge getting started up the trail. The trail actually splits right behind the trail signs, one going west the other going north. If you head down the north trail, you will eventually wind up at Barton Creek (I highlighted that part of the trail in pictures 15 - 25). Yesterday, though, I went west to try and catch a few pictures of the setting Sun so I hit the parts of the trail that might offer a view first.

Overall, I would rate these trails as good for novices but there are some tricky (and fun) areas. You can pretty much cover the whole upper trail system in 30 mins to an hour (It's pretty small but there's some nice native scrub areas in it) and if you cross the creek to the main BCG trail, you could easily go all day.