While I was swinging the Rhino, I wondered what this section of trail at Devou would be called. Running adjacent to Sleepy Hollow Road, Screamy Holler seemed to fit the dirt. Quads scream on the way up. You holler on the way down. Woo hoo Devou!
On the previous trail day I attended, the flowers under the railroad trestle had yet to bloom. Saturday the yellow flowers were almost surreal.
With the help of well over one hundred Give Back Cincinnati volunteers, CORA tackled the deepest bench cut sections to date at Covington’s Devou Park Mountain Bike Trail. Some sections ended up being two feet deep on the steep ravine-side roughly two-thirds of the way up to the first vista point. Section #5 was the toughest. At the end of the day, it was all hands on dirt, to bench the last of it.
So far, the completed trail section is officially long enough to question whether you really want to hike all-the-way up or take your bike instead. It’s an hour round trip on foot; at the tipping point to where riding a bike (and all the prep that goes along with it) might be the more logical choice.
No doubt, Cincinnati’s longest sustained mountain bike climb, or downhill, depending on which way you see it, is complete.
To learn more and take part in the next trail building day, visit the CORA website here.
A previous post about the first big trail day at Devou is here.
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