Yesterday, I got 98% packed and went up to the Columbia Trail with fully loaded bags on the bike for the first time. I had been just planning to ‘surprise myself’ with the load on the trail, and just deal with the extra weight. But when I weighed my packed bags on the bathroom scale and discovered that I’d lost more weight riding than I now intended to carry, I was more inclined to give them a go on the bike. Sure enough, I didn’t even really know they were there as I rode. Cool.
Boy, the trail was so busy yesterday that people were waiting for parking spaces in High Bridge. There was a lot of tree damage along the tail from the storm Saturday night. I spoke to a young couple who’d been walking a baby on the path when the storm blew in. They had to run for just slightly safer open space, as trees were cracking and falling all around them. They seemed quite spooked and had returned to the trail this sunnier day to see the aftermath of what they’d run from. The baby, incidentally, wasn’t frightened at all!
Boy, the trail was so busy yesterday that people were waiting for parking spaces in High Bridge. There was a lot of tree damage along the tail from the storm Saturday night. I spoke to a young couple who’d been walking a baby on the path when the storm blew in. They had to run for just slightly safer open space, as trees were cracking and falling all around them. They seemed quite spooked and had returned to the trail this sunnier day to see the aftermath of what they’d run from. The baby, incidentally, wasn’t frightened at all!