{"id":2274,"date":"2010-08-03T14:18:24","date_gmt":"2010-08-03T20:18:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.brickhouseracing.com\/?p=2274"},"modified":"2010-08-03T14:21:13","modified_gmt":"2010-08-03T20:21:13","slug":"summertime-syllamo-trail-conditions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/?p=2274","title":{"rendered":"Summertime Syllamo Trail Conditions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m very sad to type this right now, but I found out yesterday (the hard way, of course) that there are frequent sections of overgrowth on my favorite trails. Violent, thorny, skin-ripping overgrowth. I left Memphis yesterday in hopes to go for a short ride on the Red trail then head out for a longer blue\/orange ride this morning. However, once I was on the trail, my hopes for fun rides quickly faded into visions of blood and spiders.<\/p>\n<p>Well, I&#8217;d say that about 90% of the trail was OK. It was a little bushy, but as long as you watched out for new deadfall and rocks, you&#8217;d be OK&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.brickhouseracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/good.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2278\" title=\"good\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.brickhouseracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/good-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"good\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/good-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/good.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>However, the bad, overgrown parts were <em>really<\/em> bad&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.brickhouseracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/bad.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2275\" title=\"bad\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.brickhouseracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/bad-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"bad\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/bad-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/bad.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I managed about 7 miles of the loop before I said &#8220;eff it&#8221; and took a bail-out trail back to Green Mountain road. I was bleeding from my elbows and knees, and (despite saturating myself with bugsray) wondered how many spiders, ticks, and chiggers were invading my skin. It sucked.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.brickhouseracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/seeds.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2280\" title=\"seeds\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.brickhouseracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/seeds-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"seeds\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/seeds-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/seeds.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.brickhouseracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/glove.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2277\" title=\"glove\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.brickhouseracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/glove-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"glove\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/glove-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/glove.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.brickhouseracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/ow1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2279\" title=\"ow1\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.brickhouseracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/ow1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"ow1\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/ow1-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/ow1.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.brickhouseracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/leg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2283\" title=\"leg\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.brickhouseracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/leg-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"leg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/leg-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/leg.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.brickhouseracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/bugs.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2276\" title=\"bugs\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.brickhouseracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/bugs-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"bugs\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/bugs-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/bugs.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>BTW- those little brown dots are bugs of some sort. Chiggers? Ticks? I have no idea. I hosed them with bug spray so they&#8217;d stay put in the time before I got into the shower. I was pretty disappointed in the whole thing.<\/p>\n<p>After getting back to the cabin &amp; cleaning up, I headed back down to Anglers for some catfish, then made it back to the cabin just in time to catch the tail end of the sunset, which made things a little better&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.brickhouseracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/toes3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2281\" title=\"toes3\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.brickhouseracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/toes3-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"toes3\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/toes3-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/toes3.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m very sad to type this right now, but I found out yesterday (the hard way, of course) that there are frequent sections of overgrowth on my favorite trails. Violent, thorny, skin-ripping overgrowth. I left Memphis yesterday in hopes to go for a short ride on the Red trail then head out for a longer&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8Uq-AG","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2274"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2274"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2284,"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2274\/revisions\/2284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}