Underground Railroad Route & RideWithGPS
01-15-16, 12:41 PM
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Underground Railroad Route & RideWithGPS
Wondering if anyone has Section #4 of this route as their route on Ride With GPS? I have not had much luck with the Search feature on their site.
01-16-16, 08:22 AM
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frankly I think your main concern is having enough spare batteries for your headlamp--badump bump
hey, its the best I could do first thing in the morning.
actually know nothing of this route, so will look it up. Good luck with finding what you need.
hey, its the best I could do first thing in the morning.
actually know nothing of this route, so will look it up. Good luck with finding what you need.
01-16-16, 11:11 AM
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Found the route! Quite by accident it showed up in a Crazy Guy journal AND we know the guy who wrote the journal! He was a our WarmShower guest once!!
01-16-16, 01:03 PM
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I looked quickly on some sites about it, it says it is a paved trail, but as it covers so much ground, I imagine its a bunch of connected trails that go through given areas. Are there sections on roads as well?
Its not something I would ever do, but just curious if its a mish mash of trails here that could have convuluted directions to get from pt to pt or from tiny bit of trail to tiny bit of trail. Here in Quebec there is The Route Verte which is a patchly organized bike friendly "trail" in the broad sense of the word. It works fairly well but sometimes its just easier to take a given road than to follow the meandering "trail" that goes here and there and around, simply to keep people off a road--ie, for trying to do long distances per day or efficient use of your time, my experience has shown that some "bike trails" or systems like this can be tedious sometimes.
Its not something I would ever do, but just curious if its a mish mash of trails here that could have convuluted directions to get from pt to pt or from tiny bit of trail to tiny bit of trail. Here in Quebec there is The Route Verte which is a patchly organized bike friendly "trail" in the broad sense of the word. It works fairly well but sometimes its just easier to take a given road than to follow the meandering "trail" that goes here and there and around, simply to keep people off a road--ie, for trying to do long distances per day or efficient use of your time, my experience has shown that some "bike trails" or systems like this can be tedious sometimes.
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The route is roads and bike paths, at least close to where we live. Ah yes Route Verte!! My wife and I cycled from St. Jerome around The Gaspasie through the Maritimes in August and September. Beatiful!!!
01-16-16, 02:02 PM
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neat, I'm not sure if I remember you bringing that trip up here then, but I hope it was fun. My memory of sept is that we had pretty good weather, so I hope it wasn't too cold around Gaspe and the Maritimes. The St Lawrence river is pretty much about 2 or 3 or 4 deg celclius all year round, so its generally cooler out there due to the "refrigerator" effect of the cold water.
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