The official ride (as described by the local MTB club) has the route going all the way south to the Rock Creek Trail and riding a fair bit of pavement. I typically skip that, but today, meh, why not. Had already dealt with a flat on my tubeless rear at Mile 8, which meant putting a tube in there ... i may be about to give up tubeless since i'm unable to keep them full of air, SMH... so why not get some bonus miles. Then dummy decides, huh, i can cut off some of this paved trail shenanigans by taking the trail across the Lake Frank dam and, yes, friends and neighbors, you can definitely do that but OMG is there a coupla climbs on that short little connector (see 13.5). Did NOT recover for a pretty good while... Pretty warm evening, despite the temps the Garmin reports, which, yeah, it got cooler as I went along, but "cooler" from 90 or so is all relative. Everything completely wet when i got home and there had been no rain ...