Fall color ride (pics)

I like being a little under-biked, it's a challenge, and can make a ride more fun. But yesterday was nuts. I followed what was once a (wagon?) road, now gated, that gets used as a ski trail in the winter. I have a racing road bike with 28 mm tires. The trail itself was just the right amount of difficult (loose ground, rocks, branches, saplings growing between the double track) but there were more than a dozen dead trees that had fallen across the trail. I had to climb over or under each one with the bike. And then the trail dead ends, so I had to face all the deadfall again on the way back down. I guess a road bike made sense because a MTB would be more weight to shoulder. Like cyclocross at 5,000 feet.