http://www.gwynnsfallstrail.org/imag...TMapForWeb.pdf

See page 3, the map, it ends at I-70? The red part is paved, the orange part is ... where I was. That big orange stretch that goes north and comes back down.. where it hooks out to go meet with it is an intersection, and I can ride along this really narrow road for another mile or 1.25 miles or such, then have to lift my bike over a barrier (or slide it under) to get back on the path. The road is very narrow and curvy, with a lot of blind curves, and nowhere to pull off; passing is extremely dangerous for motorists, who are likely to be passing in the opposing lane of traffic with about 50-100 feet of visibility around a curve.

Motorists are idiots and I've had them try to pass me (me in a car) at 40mph (the speed limit's 25) in the wrong lane around a HUGE blind hairpin curve. On the outside, meaning they're going 40mph and just barely outpacing me at 25, because my stretch of road is a lot shorter. I don't want to share the road with these people in a car, much less on a bike; they're crazy. There's one stop sign at a 3-way intersection that people run from BEHIND me, because I stop and I'm going 25-30 and they want to go 40-50, so they pass me as I stop.

Mind you it's not that bad on a bike, really; although sometimes I have to pull off the road and wait or else traffic starts queuing horribly (at least most people aren't crazy enough to try to just pass; but plenty are). And by "wait," I mean "Wait in the 6 inch wide gutter." But still, it's not a high-visibility road; it's lots of fun, completely blind, ungodly tight curves, and I've spun out on it (and watched people spin out on it) in a car (I was pacing someone when I spun; other people were whipping the curves on a 300 foot long stretch that was covered in a half inch thick sheet of ice at the time, fun to see coming right toward you sideways....).

So, sometimes I take the path up.

Hmm. Michelin Pilot Tracker looks interesting...