Today was a short day on the bike but that doesn't mean it was an easy day!
Here are a couple pictures from our campground I captured this morning of Moose River, which provided wonderful noise for sleeping last night. I also captured a picture of the Brown Barn where cyclists can stay if the weather is bad.
Rolling out of camp this morning was a rude awakening. Within the first 2 miles, we had three steep climbs. I saw 14% on one of the climbs, and a speed of 2.3 mph. To add insult to injury, my Garmin auto-paused because it thought I wasn't moving! Once we got past those first hills, it leveled off some to more rolling hills with only a few steeper sections. We were in the Adirondack Park for most of the day. It was a beautiful ride, even though there was more traffic than I expected. Since it is Sunday, probably a lot of people were headed home after a week or weekend in the mountains.
We only had two places to stop today for food, so we made the most of both of them! We stopped in Old Forge around 11:30am and had some great turkey club sandwiches from the market. They did not skimp on the meat! We had oatmeal in camp but didn't have an opportunity for second breakfast, so we were hungry. We were already over half way for the day since it was a short mileage day.
With Hurricane Henri making landfall this afternoon, we scrapped our plans to camp tonight in case the storm was bad here. We are in a little motel near Seventh Lake tonight. It is a cute place and has adirondack chairs out front of the rooms to sit in. We had a few showers earlier when I was napping, but we haven't gotten much rain from the storm so far. We'll see what it looks like in the morning and go from there.
Here are some random scenery pics from today. The Adirondack Scenic Railway train in Old Forge. A large rock with tree roots growing around it. The golf course view from the Double Eagle Bar and Grill where we had second lunch/early dinner today.
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