{"id":1080,"date":"2023-11-26T19:08:09","date_gmt":"2023-11-27T02:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.michaelkeating.com\/wordpress\/?p=1080"},"modified":"2023-12-17T21:56:15","modified_gmt":"2023-12-18T04:56:15","slug":"fern-and-brown-mountain-truck-trails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaelkeating.com\/wordpress\/2023\/11\/26\/fern-and-brown-mountain-truck-trails\/","title":{"rendered":"Fern and Brown Mountain Truck Trails"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Beth and I met Spyros at the Upper Arroyo Seco parking lots near the east entrance to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpl.nasa.gov\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.jpl.nasa.gov\/\">JPL<\/a> to try our fat-tire eBikes on Fern Truck Trail and Brown Mountain Truck Trail, which hikers and \u2013 especially \u2013 mountain bikers enjoy. This route had a more friendly elevation profile than our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.michaelkeating.com\/wordpress\/2023\/10\/08\/mount-lowe-railway-trail\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"1070\">Mount Lowe Railway Trail<\/a> ride from last month, and the temperature stayed much cooler too, so there was not too much strain on our electric-assist systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The GPS unit stopped recording just when we turned left off of Fern Truck Trail and onto Brown Mountain Truck Trail, so it did cannot say exactly where I spilled hard taking the wrong line through a right-hand curve. Missing from the route linked below: we continued down to Chaney Trail and out via Loma Alta and Altadena Drives to our starting point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I made sure to replace my helmet following its successful defense of my brainpan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe src='https:\/\/connect.garmin.com\/modern\/activity\/embed\/13139965613' title='Fern and Brown Mountain Truck Trails' width='465' height='500' frameborder='0'><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/connect.garmin.com\/modern\/activity\/13139965613\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/connect.garmin.com\/modern\/activity\/12839799177\">Open this hike on Garmin Connect<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.michaelkeating.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/PXL_20231126_172021229.MP_.jpg?resize=640%2C480&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1081\" 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