Tomahawk Creek Trail Overland Park, KS

Today we finished up the portion of the Tomahawk Trail in KC that we had not ridden yet.  

During our almost 13 mile ride we were able to find several scavenger hunt
items from the August 2015 Bicycle Ride and Seek Facebook page.

A "car part not on a car". It even appeared to be bolted to the ground outside the fence of this golf course.  We wondered if it served as a bumper of some sort for mowing purposes.

A "hole".  Kind of. Definitely a hazard. 

A sizeable tree had actually fallen into the creek and the roots took that much of the trail with it.

A "No dumping sign" 

and a "park bench"

We also found some cool things that were not on the list.

Several gnome homes, I guess they are called.
This was just one of about 5 or 6 we saw. 

It really seems to be a "thing" on this particular trail, as we encountered several 

on the other portion of this trail when we rode it last summer. 

And this very interesting tree.  Looks like something out of Winnie the Pooh. 

We also encountered some pretty steep hills that we really hadn't anticipated. The trail had to diverge from the creek due to yet another golf course (suburban KC -- lots of golf courses), so the trail was basically routed up the steep creek banks. We didn't much enjoy that part of this trail.  

We are not training for the Olympics or even a triathlon, we are just riding 

for recreation and health and fun, so challenges like that
are frankly unnecessary. 

There are several shots in the video of us pushing our bikes.
Let's save the knees. 

The trail ended about a half block east of the intersection of Plumm and 143rd,

although there are no parking facilities at this location.

There was this somewhat incongruous scene at this rather
busy surburban intersection, however.
Too bad a silo wasn't on the scavenger hunt list this month.  

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