More than one month ago, I began to ride Tech's trails for this year. Unfortunately, the three-week-ago flash flood destroyed parts of the Tech trails, especially the trail "Walkabout", which connects from my entrance to Nara Park or the main trails.
To know how badly the Tech trails has been affected by the flood, I had a trail run to check. Most of the trails are ok. But some of the small bridges has been rushed away, and the most damage one is one slope of the "Walkabout" has been totally rushed away, making it unaccessible to Nara Park from my entrance. It looks that the "Walkabout" trail can NOT be reopen for this season. That's bad...
There are another two routes for cycling in Houghton, either going east to Chassell or going west to the Breakers. The Breakers is the Houghton side of the west Portage Entry. The trail of going east has been closed, because of one bridge near Nara Park was closed. It looks like the bridge and the slope in "Walkabout" has probably the same flood source.
The left option is to go west. Even part of the roads are still closed. But it is accessible to cycle to Breakers. Only problem is it takes a long time to arrive in the Breakers. The one way distance from my home to the Breakers is around 14 miles, requires around 90 mins by bike. It's a straight direction to there, just ride to the west. When you see the end of the road, there it is on your left.
It was a good try to the Breakers, even it took a long time. Maybe this summer, more tries on other trails, probably trails in Calumet?