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[Readytoride]

Meandering locally as the heat and humidity will allow. Sticking to the gravel roads because they are peaceful and relaxing, especially when the sun tries to set you on fire if you venture out into it too long. I have the perfect 9 mile loop on beautifully maintained 100% tree shaded and woodside gravel roads with pastoral and mountain views, starting and ending at my own driveway.

A local landowner 2 miles up the road had hired a crew to cut down some old, diseased trees along his mile of road frontage. The tree crew swiftly dispatched two trees, but when they felled and started cutting up the remains of the third tree they found, much to their hasty retreat, a very very VERY large bee hive in the rotted core of the tree trunk. They told the landowner, who placed a call to the local beekeeper up the road to come collect the bees if she wanted them. This is her in the photo above, dressed to evaluate what needed to be done to "relocate" the colony to her hives. She told me later the bees were "very angry" and to take care when passing by the felled tree. I know I would be angry, too, if somebody chopped down my custom designed "condominium". From the size of the honeycombs inside the rotten core of the tree, those bees had been in residence for a very long time.

I hope she managed to salvage the colony before the fierce thunderstorms we had last night. Nice lady. Sells great honey.

 

[Saratoga Dave]

Good to see you operational again, Flora! A little humidity down your way, yes?

Fall is coming quickly, you’ll be in the catbird seat come October. Nice to see your stories again after a tough August.

 

[Latitude]

Just got my 1st Ebike. Love it. Starting off by exploring the local surrounds in central Maryland. I plan to do the C&O/GAP trail from DC to Pittsburgh next month.

Beauty of a bike!

 

[RLow]

Along the Boise River.

 

[Taylor57]

Near snakes apparently!

 

[Readytoride]

Good to see you operational again, Flora! A little humidity down your way, yes?

Fall is coming quickly, you’ll be in the catbird seat come October. Nice to see your stories again after a tough August.

Thank you, Dave. Yes, the heat and humidity here in Virginia has been ridiculous, and very discouraging. The few rides I could squeeze in, and not be knocked flat by the overwhelming humidity, have been local and short distance and not all that noteworthy . September's better weather can't come soon enough.

 

[PDXzap]

I rode to meet my wife and a friend for happy hour and on from there to Lowe's for some hardware. Google took me on a route I've never been on, I was a little ticked off, thinking it had sent me to a dead end. It wasn't a dead end, ended up being a nice ride and saw some nice views of the Portland Oregon Temple.

 

[DaveMatthews]

 

[Sierratim]

Just got my 1st Ebike. Love it. Starting off by exploring the local surrounds in central Maryland. I plan to do the C&O/GAP trail from DC to Pittsburgh next month.

Ridden them both. Enjoy!

 

[Latitude]

A bit foggy on my ride this morning... seeing whitetail deer, a red tailed hawk, wild turkey families and other critters with few other people on the trails as summer winds down. Great time of the year to be out on a bike... especially for me, an e-Bike.

A couple of days riding with the Redshift ShockStop stem now, and I am finding it just perfect for my needs. It’s mate the seatpost will arrive this week. Looking forward to it smoothing out the backside part of my ride.

I am finding the Trek Verve + 3 to be a surprisingly versatile bike for me, as I transition to more fairly smooth gravel/ trail riding versus pavement.

 

[Latitude]

A bit of a dreary day here on the shore of Southern Lake Huron. Some light rain, but I headed out anyway for my nearby Pinery Provincial Park. It will likely be one of the last really busy days there this Labour Day weekend, before kids head back to school here in Ontario.

I try to avoid most of the crowds and vehicle traffic by sticking to trails rather than the paved roads in the park (Doing so yesterday landed me in a patch of poison ivy when I failed to negotiate a slow tight turn around a fallen tree. Today could only be better!)

The park is about the most northerly extent of the Carolinian environment, a vast swath of oak and grassy savannah that stretched up from the gulf coast of the USA, and it’s the only part of that environment that borders on fresh water. There are a few species of flora and fauna that only exist in this park anywhere on the planet.

As often happens, I came across lots of wildlife; deer and wild turkeys among them again today in a 36 km round trip.

 

[ChezCheese:)]

Today we went to the Olympic Hotsprings Road, but a bridge is washed out (as in totally gone) and the road is closed. So we turned around and road up the Little River Road, which skirts the northern edge of the Olympic National Park. Comes out at Hurricane Ridge Rd, by Lake Dawn, right by the line-up to get into the National Park there. It's a lovely ride and very little traffic. Going back down will cost you zero watts pretty much all the way to the Elwha River.

 

[Dallant]

A bit foggy on my ride this morning... seeing whitetail deer, a red tailed hawk, wild turkey families and other critters with few other people on the trails as summer winds down. Great time of the year to be out on a bike... especially for me, an e-Bike.

A couple of days riding with the Redshift ShockStop stem now, and I am finding it just perfect for my needs. It’s mate the seatpost will arrive this week. Looking forward to it smoothing out the backside part of my ride.

I am finding the Trek Verve + 3 to be a surprisingly versatile bike for me, as I transition to more fairly smooth gravel/ trail riding versus pavement.

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So you seem to be riding your Verve+3 off pavement a lot. Isn’t it just shaking the crap out of you? Do you still have the original tires, etc.? We looked at the Verve+3 and I just couldn’t see it being a good bike for any but paved surfaces.

 

[DaveMatthews]

A new route I've never seen before. South shore of the Fraser River between New Westminster and Richmond.



BOOM!



What exactly is this guy thinking he's going to fix?



MMM... not gonna float again...

 

[John Thompson]

@DaveMatthews is that out along towards Reifel island? I'm just across the border from you in Bellingham. @Readytoride saw one of your ride maps earlier and meant comment - my beloved Uncle Bob was the former mayor of Bluemont! So many fond memories of holidays at his house, which is about halfway up the hill towards Route 7.

 

[John Thompson]

The Skagit County lowlands unroll beneath Anderson Mountain, while the Olympics hover on the horizon 100 miles away across Puget Sound.

 

[DaveMatthews]

@DaveMatthews is that out along towards Reifel island? I'm just across the border from you in Bellingham. @Readytoride saw one of your ride maps earlier and meant comment - my beloved Uncle Bob was the former mayor of Bluemont! So many fond memories of holidays at his house, which is about halfway up the hill towards Route 7.

Nope, this route is along the North arm of Fraser River. Reifel is on the South arm. Did that ride in July!

 

[Mistyscot]

Holiday at Lake Bala cycling days out

 

[JeffC57]

Yesterday was a nice day so I rode a paved creek trail to a park in the KC area.

There is a beach along part of the lake but reservations are required to use it. I guess these guys had it booked for the day

 

[Taylor57]

Love the KC area. My son went to college in Leavenworth. Many trips to KC BBQ joints!