Today's Ride

[Campgottagopee]

 

[jasonwx]

that looks like a hoot

 

[gorgonzola]

Late Saturday night a buddy texted me to see if I wanted to ride early Sunday morning and if I would be interested in giving him a tour of the Switchback Trail. It had been a few years since I had done that ride so I agreed to meet a the Weissport trailhead of the D&L trail for an adventure ride tracing the anthracite from the canal back up the gravity railroad bed to it’s origin in the mines.

It’s a gentle grade along the canal path into Jim Thorpe to pick up the Switchback trail. The tread starts out as a rail trail through old growth forest, rhodos and fern to keep cool then changes to mellow singletrack as you ascend Mt. Pisgah.

There's a cool hike a bike / portage, about a shoes width at its narrowest point.

Great views from the top, North to Glen Onoko, Lehigh Gorge and the Pocono plateau (the bridge in the lower left is where this photo was taken from a few months ago)

And south to Jim Thorpe and the river Valley that we rode through to get there.

 

[MarzNC]

Did the Farm Trail at Biltmore in Asheville, NC a couple weekends ago. Brought my daughter's bike since it has wider tires. Works a lot better than my hybrid on gravel and dirt, even a well maintained road/trail that's pretty flat.

 

[Warp daddy]

Cape cod rail trail. No big deal except that I really needed the exercise- did about nine miles
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Love the CC rail trail , we lived out there all summer year i retired 1995 and did the entire trail system multiple times Every summer since 95 we are there some times for 1-2 weeks always a great time in the trails love swimming in the Ponds on the trail and of course the dunes out in the headlands near Ptown

 

[Harvey]

Looks like a great ride Gorgo. NICE shots.

No pics tonight and I'd use that nabble undercover guy emoji if we had it. A big section of my ride is closed off right now for trail renovation. The closed section would make my loop impossible, if I, you know, didn't duck the ropes. There was maybe one hole where you could fall in and plummet to your death.

Another hot one, but nothing helps me let the work day go like banging out my ride. Love it.

 

[Warp daddy]

 

[Warp daddy]

Nice little diversion on Coakley's island !

 

[Harvey]

No pics tonight and I'd use that nabble undercover guy emoji if we had it. A big section of my ride is closed off right now for trail renovation. The closed section would make my loop impossible, if I, you know, didn't duck the ropes. There was maybe one hole where you could fall in and plummet to your death.

Making life harder for ol Harv every day, first it was some wimpy plastic barrel cone thingies.

Now with cement barriers, to get my fat a$$ over...

 

[Harvey]

Dry weather is usually good, but man the trails are boney...

The barriers are getting a little more, in the way.

This one is actually a cake walk. Barely have to downshift.

This cat was definitely in the way...

Then there was this...

Hosers. Can't stop me.