Just one more piece of advice based on my personal experience: While corn in IN and IL may provide windbreak later in the summer, I would have gladly taken the wind over the temperatures and ultra-high humidity I experienced in late July/early August. In Huntington, IN it topped out at 106. The nighttime low in Fletcher Lake, IN was a frosty 85 with no breeze. One sunny, humid 100 degree day in IL the tar used to seal cracks in the road became so soft that it stuck to our tires and splattered onto our down tubes. At the end of the day my tires and frame had sand and tiny gravel pieces stuck to them. And corn provides zero shade.


Bring lights. Several days a few of us started out in the dark to get a jump on the heat. It was extremely foggy, and the fog lasted into the morning before being burned off by the blazing sun. Not good conditions for seeing or being seen.