Always trying to find new ways to ride LIttle Bennett, which is a series of trails that either climb out of the steep stream valleys or run along the ridges above the streams. This one avoids both the Pine Grove and Pine Knob trails, which are unpleasant climbs up said valley wall. We've ridden them for years and the "standard" route through LB climbs one of them twice and the other once, so lots of pine climbing. You can't really avoid climbing in LB if you want to ride more than a gravel road that is labeled as a trail ("western piedmont trail"), but climbing on trails we normally go down was the mission today. Up Loggers and up the western half of Browning Run. Turns out both climbs were easy compared to the steeper pine climbs. OGs luuuuuv easy(ier). Also rode the western part of the park at the beginning of the ride, meaning sections we often do as we tire, we did fresh. What a difference! Nice change... The last climb, up Froggy Hollow, probably could have been scratched but it wasn't tooooo bad. Then an extremely fast descent on road back to the parking lot. Meh, did it once, all good. Body felt good. Plenty of power on the climbs. No issues with contact points or other parts.