 | Hello old buddy. Oh dear, now I'm talking to mountains... |
 | A nice old church in Lewistown. |
 | Part of the old works along Spahr's Quarry Rd. |
 | These diamond plate bridge decks can be a problem when wet, but today were fine. |
 | A bit less water than in January. |
 | I imagine these stone houses along Catoctin Furnace Rd. were workers houses. |
 | These were really tiny wild flowers. |
 | This old bowstring arch bridge, c. 1872, was once located in Detour, MD, but was relocated here to the state park. |
 | Another bridge, this one across Rt. 15. I decided to try it today. |
 | Climb along the creek. |
 | If I were pass hunting I could now claim Catoctin Hollow Rd. |
 | I followed Catoctin Hollow down to Rt. 77. I wanted to go west. Guess which way goes uphill? |
 | I turned left onto Tower Rd. and kept climbing. Eventually it leveled out at the top and the road turned to gravel. |
 | Since I was on a mountain bike, I took this shortcut up the power lines to get to the top and miss a long paved climb. This was WAY steeper than it looks. I hiked it to the top. |
 | This was the trail at the top. It was very rocky. I wonder who drove a VW this far in to loose a hubcap here. It sounds like something I'd try. |
 | Abandoned building near the tower on Salamander Rock Rd, which is gated to prevent car access. |
 | A bit of gravel road and I was on the trail to the overlook. Compare and contrast to March. |
 | Panorama of the Monocacy River Valley |
 | Another failed attempt at self-portraiture (but groove on those thigh muscles). You can get Kent Peterson's cool "Any distance is biking distance" T-shirt here, and support his bid to race the Great Divide Trail on a single-speed bike this summer. |
 | I decided to take the Blue trail off the mountain. This is looking back up at the overlook outcrop from the trail. |
 | There are a few really tough spots, but mostly some very nice trail. Right at the section before the road someone went crazy with water bars across the trail. |
 | I had the option of going down Catoctin Hollow road and riding against traffic for a couple of hundred yards to the bridge across Rt. 15, or the take the trail down and cross the stream. I unwisely chose the latter. The water was COLD, and deeper than it looks. |
 | I just had to put this in. Later in the day I took my son to his summer basketball team evaluations and as I was sitting in my truck, this turkey just strolled on by. |
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