Anybody planning riding to see solar eclipse on Aug 21st?
06-12-17, 08:18 PM
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I think it's great that people are trying to make money off this event. Hotels booked a year in advance, campgrounds charging 20 times the usual rate, a guy hawking an app to tell you when its coming, people selling "viewing glasses." What else? T-shirts? No doubt. Eclipse microbrew?
06-18-17, 11:57 PM
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You could ask least fly in a few bands and do Vortex II.
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06-19-17, 01:05 PM
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In a state with less than four million residents, ODOT is expecting over a million eclipse visitors. They have started warning people that we may well run out of gasoline and that the roads will be jammed. I don't know if tempers will flare or if a party atmosphere will prevail, but I want no part of it.
I live just south of the line of totality. If I choose to ride on the day of the eclipse, it will be to ride off early in a southerly direction. After the eclipse, I'll turn north and head for home. A nice ride is more important to me than an eclipse. YMMV.
I live just south of the line of totality. If I choose to ride on the day of the eclipse, it will be to ride off early in a southerly direction. After the eclipse, I'll turn north and head for home. A nice ride is more important to me than an eclipse. YMMV.
We could probably see it from our front yard, but we will be riding a short distance to out of town, and up a high ridge, just in case there is a marine incursion. We just checked out some spots this morning. We were checking out good spots for pictures.
P.S. Viewing glasses are just a couple of $$ a pair.
06-20-17, 08:28 AM
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For those in the mid-west, Tunnel Hill rail trail will have some of the best viewing in the nation! Vienna Il. at the southern tip will be in the max totality of darkness. There are multiple camping options in the area. Very little hotel rooms though. Happy viewing! Our group from Louisville Ky. will be there for a day ride.
06-20-17, 02:59 PM
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I'll be at work in Albany, OR so I'll just go out to the parking lot and look at it. Unless it's raining. Heck, even then I'd look to see how dark it gets. I have an arc welding mask, I've looked at the sun with it before. I just hope the back roads I take to get there from Falls City aren't too crowded for me to make it to work.
06-24-17, 10:53 PM
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It will be hot, muggy, and buggy, but I'll be riding South Carolina's Palmetto Trail for the eclipse. The eastern segments are smack in the center of the path of the totality. Getting very excited about it.
06-25-17, 07:33 AM
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For those in the mid-west, Tunnel Hill rail trail will have some of the best viewing in the nation! Vienna Il. at the southern tip will be in the max totality of darkness. There are multiple camping options in the area. Very little hotel rooms though. Happy viewing! Our group from Louisville Ky. will be there for a day ride.
06-25-17, 07:55 AM
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It would be lovely to cycle through the eclipse ... but expect the roads to be crazy EVERYWHERE anywhere near the path of totality. It would be a shame to miss the experience because some idiot was driving in a, shoulder to try and see things better. Oregon officials are expecting hundreds of thousands of eclipse viewers filling the back-country
and causing gridlock on every road east of the coast.
I started thinking about this eclipse ten years ago, and I am not alone.
Good luck.
and causing gridlock on every road east of the coast.
I started thinking about this eclipse ten years ago, and I am not alone.
Good luck.
I've been planning a summer long bike trip for quite a while, but I'm not planning on the specific location where I will be until starting a week out from the eclipse and then I will ride to where the sun is going to be, and the clouds aren't going to be, located. I'll be carefully watching the weather forecast in the final week and place myself around where the sun will be shining brightly not where I'll be parked under cloudy skies. No I don't plan to stop riding to view the eclipse I instead want to watch what goes on around me,, how the wind dies off, the animals behave, etc as I continue to Ride Through Totality. Right now thanks to the stupid moronic bike I have my departure is being stalled. Got to get it in to fix this warrant issue for the the second time in 1.5 years, Stupid rack inserts that Specialize uses on their bikes don't like to stay in the frame, so you can reliable mount anything to the bike to go on a long distance trip. Pretty much I have ZERO faith in the bike but I'll leave anyways and have the absolute horrible email for Specialized pre written to be sent on the trip if they don't end up replacing the frame this time...which I highly doubt they will...too much profit loss for them to do that.
06-30-17, 10:42 AM
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There will be a thunderstorm where I am during the eclipse. So, instead I went to the post office yesterday and got the stamps so I can look at the stamp during the eclipse.
https://store.usps.com/store/browse/...uctId=S_475304
They said they are going fast.
https://store.usps.com/store/browse/...uctId=S_475304
They said they are going fast.
07-07-17, 01:27 AM
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07-07-17, 10:31 PM
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not biking, but we're heading to Wyoming, got a reasonable price on a room in Pinedale, we're getting there a few days early, and going to find a good observation point up around 10000' a bit north of Pinedale.
07-08-17, 02:36 AM
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enjoy the wind rivers. hope to make it there one of these days.
07-08-17, 07:37 AM
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