It can't look much worse than my bike does. Since it was so warm today I went for a ride in the trails of Crow's Woods, about quarter of a mile straight line from my house. However, you cannot go to the woods in a straight line. You have two options, either take the roads and go up a 100ft hill thats 1/8 miles long, then down a 125ft at a 25* angle (and then back up to get home), or take the shorter, but harder way. Heres the path I took today.
The pink line is an alternate route than can be taken only during a drought. The way I went today follows a dry creekbed, but on my way back there was a nasty downpour, and that dry creekbed didn't stay dry for long. It appears that the storm runoff from the AMTRAK/PATCO line drain into that creekbed, which in turn dumps into the main creek, which I had to carry my bike and myself across on the little bit of bridge that extends past the fence. T'was fun though, and I am thinking about building a bridge across the creek, it is very nasty water that you don't want to fall into. (at any given point it is 4-8' deep with a near vertical 2-5' bank)
I had a terrifying experiance last December with a branch of the main creek. It was frozen over, and my freinds and I were walking across the ice when just one of my legs fell through. I got out fine and immediatly went home to change. It only took about 10 minutes to get home, but by the time I left the woods, about 2 minutes, my pant leg had frozen solid up to my knee. Needless to say, I won't be doing that agian.
Posted: Sat Apr 01, 2006 11:38 am
