I've only had a bike for about 3 weeks now and this past Thursday I checked out Bear Creek since I live like 10 minutes away from there. I parked at lot 4, which is the gravel lot the lady at the desk told me to park at, and I went along my merry way starting on the pond side on the trail that borders the pond.
I was told that it starts out easy, then gets harder, then much harder, buuuut when I started out, the entire trail for as far as I could tolerate was just nothing but rocks.
Which confused me, because "easy" is a relative term of course but I figure that while not a seasoned rider, I am not like some grampa joe on a hybrid either.
So do you think I was just not on the right path? Or is this a case of "Son, you shoulda saved your pennies for another few months and bought an all-mountain FS bike cuz you live in PA, instead of that old fashioned hardtail."
I like a few rocks here and there, but this was borderline sadistic 