CHARLES  FORK LAKE

TRAILS
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TOUR de LAKE

DIRECTIONS

CHADWAY TRAIL: This new section of trail offers a more challenging ride dropping in and out of several steep ravines. The trail leaves Charlie's a short distance from where Low Gap drops in and falls off to the left. After a short decent and climb, it moves quickly along a bench before transversing the first ravine. After that you'll find yourself in an section of smaller trees and brush (more or less below the old log barn foundation on Charlie's). Once you're back into the deep woods, get ready for technical riding. You'll cover this convoluted section by following the edges of ravines then dropping into them and climbing hard out the other side. We have provided assisted at two spots with a bridge and some major rock construction. When you're through this section, you'll make a very hairy decent along the edge of a ravine on a very narrow section of trail. At this point, you'll be very close to the lake and the trail will join up with the "fisherman trail" that leads from the dam to the first cove. Unless you want to go that seclude cove where you might accidentally fall in the water, bear right and Chadway Trail brings you into Charlie's again in the middle of the switchback that leaves the dam.