this may sound dumb but.. wouldnt riding in open space like that get boring after say... and hour?
thats kinda biased i know cuz all i know is woods riding.... turn coming up and you dont know whos comin the other way haha.
I live at the bottom of canfield mountain which feeds into 4th of july pass. Anyway I have a trailhead a mile from house that splits into seven trails with literally hundreds of miles of trails.