Winter Set Back - I know why they call this the ice age trail!
I've been enjoying some winter hiking/backpacking. I add the backpacking because, I do wear a backpack 3/4 full - for the weight and to help familiarize myself with my new pack. Well, a few day ago I went out to hit a new section of the IAT. New for me that is. Anyway, I parked at the really nice Emma Carlin trail head paved parking complete with bathrooms. What a difference from the days when I mountain biked here. However I would usually access the trail via the connector trail and remember this as a technical section of single track that would test most bikers. However, I'm sure this is all changed by now, because as I exited mountain biking the trails were already changing. As a way to to encourage more people to use the trails, most of the "technical" sections were removed by removing the steep climbs with switchbacks and large rocks and tree roots that reach out into the trail were replace with truck loads of crushed limestone. I feel they destroyed
