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<\/p>\nOn Sunday Jake had hockey practice over at Kit Carson park in Escondido so I took the opportunity to get in some pedal time out at Lake Hodges.<\/p>\n
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\u00a0 I stuck to the North Side <\/a>trails on this outing.<\/p>\n Updating the Lake Hodges pages on my website has been on my to-do list for quite some.\u00a0\u00a0 Now that there is a pedistrian\u00a0and bike bridge connecting the north and south side of the lake there are more ride options in the area on a single outing.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Additionally, a few years ago I got a letter from some of the land owners and the\u00a0western end of the easement road (known as the high road) that did not want anyone using the easement rsload for recreation and asked that I take down that information from my site.\u00a0\u00a0 Well obviously I’m a busy guy and have not be able to get to that yet.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It looks like it maybe all figured out by now since new signage has gone up.\u00a0 Of course that new signage has made things as clear as mud.\u00a0 Take a look at the picture above.\u00a0\u00a0 The easement road sign says “No Trespassing”\u00a0 yet they installed a people tunstill beside the gate.\u00a0 New signs were put up telling you it is okay to hike and bike\u00a0to the right, but no trespassing to the left.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Looking at the sign above at\u00a0the far western end of the easement\u00a0road\u00a0one would think it is okay to go through the gate and ride off\u00a0to the right vice on the easement road that\u00a0goes to the left.\u00a0\u00a0 That is not the case at all.\u00a0\u00a0 What the\u00a0signs are trying to convey is that when you are on the easement road, everything uphill of the road is private property and everything downhill (towards the lake) is part of the park.\u00a0\u00a0 This is also not entirely correct as the private property owners land typically goes some number of feet\/yards downhill of the road.\u00a0 The park has put up private property signs at the bottom of the trails that connect the lower trails to the\u00a0upper easement road. \u00a0\u00a0I find it\u00a0odd that some of the land owners don’t want people on the\u00a0eastern end of the easement road, yet\u00a0nearly all of them have gates onto the easement road from their backyard.\u00a0 Presumably so they can\u00a0use the easement road to\u00a0get into the park.\u00a0 Hmmm so it is okay for those land owners\u00a0to \u00a0get onto the little sliver of the easement road they own and then trespass on their\u00a0various neighbors property and then\u00a0enter the park through\u00a0unauthorized trails but it is not okay for the public to do so.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Hmmmm,\u00a0the\u00a0best advice I can give is to do your best to make sense of the various “non-truth” signs you see and make your own judgement calls.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Following the predominate and fresh foot and bike tracks is probably a safe bet.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n The Benardo Mountain trail has no controversy involved with it.\u00a0\u00a0 It just a nice trail that will work you over on the climb up to the peak.\u00a0\u00a0 There are some tough grade sections and some technical bits as well that will test both skill and fitness.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0There was some nice purple blooms going off on the climb.<\/p>\n The view of the bridge connecting the North<\/a> side to the South<\/a> side from the peak.\u00a0<\/p>\n Snow on the mountains to the east.<\/p>\n After Bernardo Mountain I rode out towards the dam until it was time to\u00a0turn around and get back to the rink.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I made it back just as Jake was get off the rink so two sweaty Porter Boys to funk of the truck on the drive back to Casa Del Bill.<\/p>\n![\"LakeHodges-10MAR13-11\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/imagescaler\/68a722183aff6bbdf0eee84274b850e0.jpg?resize=840%2C560\" "\\"LakeHodges-10MAR13-11\\"")
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