Mountain biking in the Moose River Plains comes with a fist pump
By Herb Terns
My first ride in “the Plains” was 2019 after a writer’s conference in Old Forge. My bike was a mountain bike in name only—a $75 beater I’d brought to commute to the conference.
Those first rides were over tame, gravel roads with forays on easy trails into Icehouse and Helldiver ponds. But something about cruising through the forest on a bike created a spark.
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For the past decade, I‘ve met a group of friends every summer to ride road bikes for a long weekend. In the early COVID-19 days, renting a house together was out. I proposed camping in individual tents at Limekiln Lake, renting mountain bikes and riding in the Moose River Plains.
My buddies were skeptical. They were road bikers, and they were grown-ups with high-deductible insurance plans.They saw danger in mountain biking. They saw jumping off rocks and other high-risk things you see on YouTube. I assured them we would be riding like suburban fathers whose families expected us to be healthy enough to take out the garbage when we returned home. Mike Peterson steers through a shaded Moose River Plains trail. Photo by Herb Terns Easy riding Pedals & Petals in Inlet helped. We rented high-quality mountain bikes and they offered route guidance to suit our (low-quality) skill level.The Adirondack Explorer thanks its advertising partners. Become one of them .Our days […]
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