This one was tasty…..made our way back from Thessalon to Black Creek outfitters (great owners) to a dirt/gravel trail out to Kindiogami river where we popped into Elliot lake for lunch. Initial trail had some traditional gravel/backroad feel with some sections that you had to pay attention to. All in all a really flowy back road trail.
Loving the first leg of the route. A small deviation that led to our FIRST dead end brought us back to a section that the gps just called “off-road” route. Started off like a logging road gravel route that gradually became narrower. A couple pauses to recheck gps, google, gai etc and concensus was trail would intersect to main road that would bring us back to espanola. Well……got funky quick lol. Sections got steeped and rocks became babyhead narrow four track. End result was a turnaround climbing all the sketchy decents we did and descending all the sketchy climbs we did. My mantra, “this is just a big dirt bike” and the rock solid performance of the trusty Tenere got us back to where we were at the “consideration point” to continue where we just retreated :)
It was time to get back on plan fo get to espanola and we hammered back quick stop in Elliot lake to grab “provisions” and now about to sleep soundly to prep for day 5 Temiskaming it is…
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