I'm heading up that way sometime today, though still have no concrete idea of what my time line will be. I'm excited to get in some good riding this weekend. Here's hoping my legs and lungs decide to join in the festivities.
Thousand Hills Trail still has a decided primative, backcountry wildness to it, but it is rideable (and plenty fun to ride all the same). In all fairness, there are sections that would probably set the Pope to cussing like a sailer supposing he were a mountain biker. (It's been more or less a rescue mission out there this summer. The F*L*A*T*S Half Marathon is in four weeks, so after 10/22 the trails should be far more destination worthy.)