rumrunn6

cool, where is that? & is that a bike ferry of sorts?

Witterings

My username is Witterings which is from The Witterings beach in the UK.
The ferry, which has a draw bridge so is really easy to wheel bikes onto, is just inland up the estuary and crosses between Bosham and Itchenor.

We'd been on a 26 mile circuit which is a mix of gravel paths, farm roads (some more made up than others) and the quietest country lanes in the most picturesque of settings ... am very lucky to live here

Couple more pics of the area that the paths take you through posted below ... if anyone fancies joining us let me know That said I absolutely love some of the pics I see that people have posted from the US ... beautiful !!!!!!!!

rumrunn6

yes, lovely!

Seattle Forrest

Seattle Forrest

Iron Horse Trail near Snoqualmie Pass

TimothyH

HTupolev

Neat! I've been up there twice in the summer, but haven't actually seen it in clear weather before... the pass was cloudy with scattered showers when I toured over it in 2016:



And last year I did a group gravel ride out of Hyak where we went along Keechelus and then over Stampede and Tacoma passes, but that was during the smoke.

Seattle Forrest

The last time I was on that trail I was on skinny skis and the top of the lake was frozen solid.

I went over Stampede Pass last weekend but vowed to come back and do Tacoma another time.

I'm thinking about exploring in the Teanaway tomorrow.

TimothyH

Seattle Forrest

Nanaeum

Jakedatc

Tour De Heifers 62mi 7600' Summer in Vermont

curttard

It doesn't really compare to most of the tremendous vistas posted in here, just a nice little park near my house with a couple miles of trails.

TimothyH

A rural Georgia version of the Arc de Triomphe.

pennpaul

You all live in some beautiful places! Thanks for sharing your pictures.

At the end of January 2018, we moved to Jerusalem for my wife's job. I do have a gravel bike but I have limited my riding to a paved rail trail that connects the city center where we live to where the gravel starts. I was off the bike for years so I am working on my stamina especially with the hills here. Jerusalem has a bike ring road but not all the segments are completely connected/paved. Other than on Shabbat which starts Friday evening and continues to Saturday evening, the roads are fairly inhospitable to cyclists. Predominantly the only things you'll see on 2 wheels on the roads are the insane food delivery scooters (and private citizens on scooters) who will use every available lane (including the oncoming lane), weave between cars in traffic, travel the right and wrong way up pedestrian sidewalks, and a slew of eBikes that behave just like scooters but do it silently so they are almost worse.

Without making this political, I do not wear my favorite bike jersey anymore--one from Performance Bike with the California bear/flag on it. Unfortunately it shares all the same colors as the Palestinian flag and I do NOT want to be a moving target (and a slow one at that). Jerusalem's climate and terrain (other than no ocean) does remind me of when we used to live in San Diego.




After you finish with the main bike path, you reach the beginning of the Jerusalem to Tel Aviv bike trail. I am a few hundred meters from the 1949 Armistice Agreement Line separating Israel from the West Bank. To the right of my handlebars, there is a checkpoint. Only people entering Jerusalem are checked. If you enlarge this image, at about 2 o'clock, you can see a large metal fence sitting on top of a concrete roadway. It's not for holding back rock slides.




This was unexpected, but I did see one cyclist go through the checkpoint. I'm not sure if you have to present a passport or something, but I don't plan on finding out.




Takes about 7 miles from my apartment to see the first sign of hardpack. Totally doable...for now.




Ride about 50m around the bend and then you start to get some good sized rocks packed into the dirt. The size of the rocks only appear to get larger as you go further. I was never much of MTBer, and I'm not feeling brave so this has always been my turning around point.




In the 90s, Jerusalem dug a tunnel connecting this region to a large sewage plant 2.1km away. They've been able to fit a bike path in that tunnel (with the sewage in a sealed pipe) and opened it for one day for a local race. They are waiting for the final safety permits before they open it permanently. You can see the path descend down to the tunnel entrance. I'm looking forward to it opening because hopefully that will give me more places to explore.




On my ride home, I'm treated with a view of the Old City walls.

TimothyH

[MENTION=470745]pennpaul[/MENTION], the photos of Israel are great! Thank you for posting.

Do you know anything about the Israeli National Bike Trail? I want to ride this but can't find much information about guides and such.



-Tim-

Witterings

I've spent a bit of time and scrolled through every picture on here from the start this evening ..... gosh we live in an amazing world and there are some incredibly beautiful photos ... I'd love to make it a mission and ride every trail people have posted pictures of !!

Lucky to have some beautiful rides near me and absolutely loving this hobby

pennpaul

I know of it, but only from Google: Israel National Bike Trail

We haven't experienced the true summer heat yet, but I'd imagine summer in the southern desert must be brutal (but it's a dry heat ). We did have some significant rain in February and March and the desert regions and even outside of Jerusalem experienced flash flooding in April. Planning around the weather should definitely be one of your top priorities.

Seattle Forrest

redlude97

Did you start east of the tunnel?

Seattle Forrest

[MENTION=260977]redlude97[/MENTION]

There's a parking lot about 1/4 mile east of the tunnel, at exit 54 (Hyak). Started there. The tunnel is long enough you need a good light even on a bright summer day.

Here's another picture from the same trail.

redlude97

Nice! I usually start from the rattlesnake ridge parking lot or Mt Washington and I've been on it when theres still partial snow. Good to know theres a lot at hyak since I don't always want to carry lights

Seattle Forrest

I've always wanted to try one of those camps you pass along the way. I've done the ride starting from Mt Washington, there are a couple camps along the way, one is pretty far from any hiking trails, so it seems like there would be a lot of solitude.

TimothyH

I said a Georgia, Georgia
A song of you
Comes as sweet and clear
As moonlight through the pines

Other arms reach out to me
Other eyes smile tenderly
Still in the peaceful dreams I see
The road leads back to you

- Ray Charles







-Tim-

JamesB722

Delaware River & Canal Towpath

Marcus_Ti

So you know those times you're taking cool bike photos....



And suddenly you do some quick mental arithmetic? You know something like, "WTF I'm bone dry as is the ground, how can there be a rainbow at dawn?"



Upside, I got to ride to Lucky Charms...