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Nopporo Trail biking

Jim-san, our tour guide was very friendly. We are a mixed group of Japanese and English speaking cyclists and that probably made it difficult for him to shift between languages.
The trail that we covered was more of gravel biking trails, nothing mtb-technical-type with light climbs. (I was left wanting more shredding.)
Unfortunately, the tour had to be cut short coz we were (first) warned and eventually advised by others (in the forest) of a brown bear sighting. So we ended up cycling in the nearby paved suburb roads to complete our coverage. Jim was humbly apologetic that the forest route wasn't followed.
Suggestion: set alternative routes in case of bear sightings.

As expected, the tour kept track of time.