Bicycling on Oc & E Woods line state Trail

It was a beautiful morning, temperature was perfect. 

We were heading East on the trail.  Because it was a weekday, only a high school student on foot and a woman who looked like she was biking to work were passing by at the beginning.

The trail is running through residential areas, across main roads and bridges, and agricultural areas to the small town, Olene.

Even through residential areas, houses are not too close to the trail, it made me so comfortable riding in the open space.

Agricultural area was so beautiful with fall colors, we could see the mountain range farther out.

When I started to worry about where I can find a restroom , we reached the trail head which has only a parking lot but also an outhouse.  

We took a picture and enjoyed the view, and rode back on the trail. 

Then.. !?  My bicycle got strange noise, oh my God!  Unbelievable, flat tire!! on my back.

Mr. WhP  started finding the spot, but this time he couldn't find just by checking on the tire.  Then, a nice looking mature male cyclist came by to offer us any help.  He told us this is the season for flat tires, because these very nasty seed pods are on the ground everywhere.  It is called "goat's head".

After the guy left, Mr. WhP took out the tube and found the spot to patch.  The agricultural area continued quite a bit, so I stopped to let him check ahead.

We rode more and finally reached the end of the paved trail at Olene.

If I had a confident about my strength and endurance, we might have tried riding a little bit on the dirt trail continues from Olene.

On the way returning on the trail, I saw Mt.Shasta peeking out from the clouds. 

We enjoyed riding very much with clear air and comfortable sunshine.

When we came back to the bridge, I had to check the map to make sure it was a right turn to take another trail, the A Canal. 

Because when I was passing the bridge, I was fully occupied by telling myself "I can do it, I'm not scared".  I still have some fear of crossing bridges.

 
The canal trail is running along the canal's right side, the residential area is on the left side.

Because I researched to find a good sounding sandwich shop in town which we can reach by taking city roads out from the canal trail.  I took an adventurous ride for me.

Luckily the city road was still calm, we had no problem getting into the left turn lane at the signal from bike lane, and also getting into  Shopping center from the road.

I waited outside of the shop, Triple J Deli,

he got our sandwiches.  I was so surprised, she or he made the sandwiches so quickly.  And the sandwich was so good as I read before.

We rode back on the trail smoothly and tried finding a nice bench to sit and eat.  But we couldn't around the Inn where we stayed.  
Luckily people who were just walking on the trail told us about the park along the trail.  Yes, I saw it, but I couldn't remember it by myself.  So we happily rode back to Wiard Park, and found a picnic table and bench to have our lunch.

We haven't ridden over 15 miles recently, but we rode over 20 miles on that day!!  We were exhausted when we back to the Inn.

This is a very nice beginning for our riding tour in Oregon, we thought!!

Along the trail grass was neatly trimmed, and maintained very clean so that I saw short snakes coiled two times while I was riding.

Along the trail, I even saw my favorite animals, happy me.

 


In addition I'd like to say that all the drivers on the city roads which cross the trail were so cautious/courteous and expected to stop and wait to let cyclists to cross.   That was very impressive for us.  What a great town  Klamath Falls is!

No more loading bikes, let's pedal!

Arnold drive to Leveroni, Fryer creek Trail to MacArthur St, cross Broadway, turn R on Nathanson Trail.  This is familiar for us now.  Then turned left on Denmark, rode all the way and crossed a busy  St, Napa Rd,  took Burndale to Knob hill to S. Central, and crossed another busy St, Hwy 121, left on Dale and finally got onto Ramal.  When the cyclometer showed 11 miles, I decided to go back.  Because my strength will be limited to 22 miles.

Turned out that was right.  In spite of my whining sound to our home, my legs were still capable to pedal.  Thank goodness!

"Honey, we'd better turn around here."

 "OK, we can go over there next time."

"Let's go back home!"

I found the beautiful scenery over the railroad.

This is the nice trip which we both really enjoyed.

 

 22.7 miles trip ....   
 I quickly cooked Trader Joe's Pork Gyoza Potstickers.  And dipped in Kikkoman soy sauce with Herdez Salsa Verde which is my yummy discovery.  Celebrated with Belgium beer ' Fat tire'.

Hope we will not get sore too much tomorrow.

Cool morning ride!

It was 65F.  We started riding bicycle about 8:15 am this morning.  The air was quite chilly, and it reminded me to order full bicycle gloves. The tips of my fingers were cold for a while.

Well, the air was clean and fresh.  I really enjoyed the morning ride.  

My right foot toes were getting cramped at the end, but I came back OK.  A comfortable 20 miles ride!

Cross Marin Bike Trail, out and back

This is the second time ride, since we did it last June 12th.  We tried to ride through from platform Bridge to Shafter Bridge.  The reason why we didn't ride through last time was paved trail doesn't run through to Shafter.  I didn't have a confidence to ride unpaved and unknown dirt road last time.  So I was nervous a little today.  But sometime you have to go and see, otherwise you will never know.

First half from Platform Bridge was familiar to me, we stopped for rest room the same as last time.  This spot is always so beautiful.

Sunlight was just right to make tree leaves so gorgeous!

This time we could find the way to get onto the unpaved trail.

The unpaved trail sometimes had quite a lot of gravel, but they were small size, so it was not too bad.
But poison oak starters were growing along the trail, so I had to watch out.  And numbers of horse poop piles had to be dodged.

There were some dips in the ground for drainage which were lined with either gravel or concrete.  As usual I was scared the first time to go over.  Mr. WhP went easily.

Well, next is my turn!  Huh?! Somebody with small trailer is coming.  

I just concentrated and passed.

Finally we could reach the Shafter Bridge.  I checked it on the information bulletin board.

After across the bridge, we faced to busy Sir Francis Drake Blvd.  Just took the picture and turned around.

We felt OK, so we rode 2 round trips and....


We rode over 20 miles!!

 
Showing Distance, Average Speed, Max Speed, and Time.