Only 1 mile to go...
08-09-11, 05:54 AM
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Only 1 mile to go...
Looks like the Great Allegheny Passage is almost done. 335 miles from Pittsburgh to DC. I have been wanting to ride this for a couple of years but can never get the 4-5 days to fit it in my schedule.
GAP - Hit Me
GAP - Hit Me
08-09-11, 08:12 AM
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Looks like the Great Allegheny Passage is almost done. 335 miles from Pittsburgh to DC. I have been wanting to ride this for a couple of years but can never get the 4-5 days to fit it in my schedule.
GAP - Hit Me
GAP - Hit Me
08-09-11, 10:43 AM
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I dunno, we stayed at a Super 8 in Cumberland a few weeks a go and it was $90. Granted it was a Saturday, but $90 for a Super 8! Highway robbery, it was.
08-09-11, 08:59 PM
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Shoot - I paid about the same for the nicer hotel right on the trail! Though it was midweek and October, so I dunno.
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08-09-11, 09:01 PM
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Now that this thing is almost done, I may have to make my triumphant return and ride it end to end.
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08-09-11, 11:05 PM
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In 2008 Neil Fein and I sat out a rainstorm at the Eastern Continental Divide with a guy riding the whole thing in two days. We remember it because when Neil F. asked what he did, the guy said he had a "job he can't talk about." The mysterious cyclist didn't know the trail at all; he was surprised he had the downhill run into Cumberland ahead of him.
08-10-11, 09:43 AM
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Please don't plant crazy ideas like that in my head. That's like slapping me in the face with glove...
08-10-11, 02:36 PM
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Can you ride this trail on a road bike with 23mm tires or do you need a hybrid/mtn bike?
08-10-11, 02:48 PM
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So... uh... does anyone know any good bike routes from Buffalo to Pittsburgh? 
This might seriously make my list of goals for next year... Buffalo->Pittsburgh->DC
This might seriously make my list of goals for next year... Buffalo->Pittsburgh->DC
08-10-11, 05:21 PM
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The GAP, maybe. The C&O, well... I sure as hell wouldn't. It's significantly rougher and tends to get deep mud ruts if it rains.
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08-10-11, 10:01 PM
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Yes. Follow the lakeshore to Erie, PA, and then take PA Bike Route A south to just outside Pittsburgh. Then switch to the Montour Trail at Coreapolis, follow that to Clairton/Glassport, and follow the on-road Steel Valley Trail to the GAP.
