I was determined to investigate every trail on Brushy Creek I
could as part of the Georgetown Running Club’s 2020 Summer Tour, and here were
some that I’d found. Once I crossed the
bridge at Champion Park, I took a right and headed onto the designated bike
trails. Walking a bike trail is
easy. Just keep in mind that you can
generally hear them coming, so you just step out of the way. The people on the bike aren’t expecting
walkers, so they’re going full tilt, and couldn’t stop in time if they saw you.
The trail I followed needed me to climb down an incline, which
brought to me an interesting rock overhang.
The picture doesn’t do it justice, but I could picture animals hanging
out there to get out of bad weather.
After a short distance, the trail headed up steeply again, but this was
on some rocks with a wooden track between them.
I heard some bikers coming down, so I waited for them to pass. The first one had no issues, but the second
one stumbled and grounded his bike to keep from thumbing down the rest of the
way. I climbed up it, which was a little
difficult because there wasn’t a lot of handholds.
I was on a high overlook, with the creek about twenty feet below
me. A fall from this height wouldn’t be
healthy for me, and I respect heights enough not to do stupid shit. The trail ahead of me had narrowed to about
six inches wide, and it also had a downward incline. I’m not sure how the frak a bike can travel
this, but if I encountered one there was nowhere for either one of us to
go. And then I heard the sound of a bike
coming towards me, but from above. The
way the ground had inclined up from me hid another trail from my vantage point,
and I only realized it when the other biker went speeding by. Needless to say I climbed in the incline up
to this more-leveled trail to continue my sojourn.
As the trails brought me back around to the area by the bridge
near where I started, I just ended up following the trail eastward just so I
would get some more steps and some other nice pictures.
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