Touring Mosquito Lake

Tiffany and I went on a bike ride yesterday, our first semi-long ride by ourselves, and it turned out to be quite an adventure! We got lost on our way back home and ended up on the University of Alaska campus (which, incidentally, is a nice campus) for some time. At one point we biked/walked close to a moose, but this one wasn't offended by our presence and didn't chase after us.

The real excitement started when we went down a "No outlet" road for some way (downhill), until we reached the end of the road, which went right down into a forrested gully. Naturally we decided to head through the gully in the hopes of quickly reaching the other side. At first, there was a nice little trail that we followed right down the hill, but then it bent at a 90 degree angle from where we wanted to go. Unfortunately, we didn't have much time to think about that, since we were getting swarmed, and I mean SWARMED, by mosquitos. So we got on our bikes (on the dirt trail) and biked off along the trail. Then I fell over at one point (couldn't get out of the pedals). Then we reached the end of that trail, and Tiffany spotted a building that looked close enough that we could... trudge through a marsh and get to the other side. So, that's what we did. Lets see... Tiff's shoe almost came off and sunk into the mud... Our bike spokes and chains got stuck in innumerable branches and weeds... And of course there were the ever-present mosquitos! It was quite an adventure and our feet were sopping wet when we finally reached concrete. But we made it! Jessica would have been proud.