Thursday, September 12, 2013
Fall bike ride anyone?
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Somewhere to somewhere - and back the next day with camping in between. SingleSpeed-able for the most part please. I'm fine with renegade camping but I'd rather have a real fire and a cold beer. Ideas?
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Carver park reserve is a good option for fall. Would be very few people out there, its a pretty good distance that is single speed friendly, beer is ok, it is in a giant park for flexible alternate ride/fun options.
25 miles to Carver from your place
Correction, a little over 28 miles from your house. Want to drive over and check it out early next week?
Could be good. Looks like J + H will have a solid 5 or 6 mile day from their usual start spot. :)
I guess that's sort of a question. I'm hoping that whatever we do we can ride together. Do people have requirements for where we start from or how far we ride or the minimum number of bags a bicycle must have (6 isn't it?), or whatever?
I am willing to ride from anyplace. It is a little soul killing to drive into the city to ride back out to my house but unless we go further out it is part of the fun package. Doesn't Sean live right off the trail? I am at Wrightsville Beach NC this weekend and next but am available I think after that. I have been buying new ultralight and cold weather camping gear so I am excited to put it all in my glorious bags.
I am in Richfield now. Closer to John's than any of those trails.
I'm not requiring to ride from my house but as you said a ride from your house would be pretty short. Maybe we could ride from Steve's, what would that look like? Sean lives in Richfield. Maybe ride from your house to somewhere else...
Maybe we all just park our cars in a small town and take some nice rice to a MN State park with our reserved (secluded group) campsite waiting. Firewood and ice for sale. I could check it out and provide some options if this sounds interesting.
I wish I had a reason to have new and improved cold weather gear.
Yup. It's all good. I'll ride from anywhere and camp anywhere. Thanks for the email notice. I'm camping in the back yard tonight.
My Miyata is available if anyone wants a geared touring bike. It a very competent gear hauler.
No ideas then?
Carver park reserve with a start at John's house after he feeds us breakfast sounds like the best plan to me.
I am just kidding about the breakfast thing and i like link sausage.
When?
I used my vacation buffer day off from work today to go scout out Carver park reserve trail and camp site situation. Fun ride. Three group sites and one multi site camp ground. In the multi site camp gound each spot can only have two tents on it. Group sites are about $80 per night. Looks like they close all but the Zumbra group site some time late in October so until we pick a date I will wait to describe the pros and cons of each I saw. I think I can do Oct 5 weekend and likely other dates except Oct 12 weekend.
Steve is in for October 5th. George is in for October 5th. Sean is exploring his options and hoping to be in too. Let's go!
I will look into the group site or the individual sites tomorrow. Challenges include: Two people have individual spots right where we want to be (in the teen site spots), also three rivers site keeps suggesting you can only rent sites for two nights which would make the $80 a night group site undesirable. I will call and get answers.
I called today and all group sites in the park are booked. What is left are individual sites in the Auburn camp ground area in the park. Since we can only have two tents per site I rented three sites next to each other 17, 19 and 21. There may be people camped around us but these are the best combination of allowing us to camp all together, natural surroundings and not in the open field RV generator allowed area. We are doing this. I will email the group also.
Not sure why my wife is logged into my comment world but I am Msbingles I guess until I figure it out. Jared
Thanks Mrs B. We aren't going to have privacy and quiet there but it will be easier all around I guess, sigh... We could still do the old route instead, right?
One of the problems in getting a site is that the park has closed most of the best spots for the season. Maybe to let the grass heal? I bet there will only be us and the two or three other parties in this very large camp ground. I put us where we are because I did't want to be in the area with campers and generators. Once we are at the park on camp day we can confirm that the other less desirable but more private sites are not filled we could move. If we did move sites there would be fewer trees but likely no other people around us. I also think that every year we don't really stay up all that late or get loud at all. But really I am open to most plans this year.
I'm excited, everyone together. So really a completely different route out of and outside of MPLS sounds like. Solid ride. Solid destination. Thanks for doing the legwork J and S. Sean-o maybe send out the route map.
Crap, I can't go. Julie won't be back from her work trip until monday.
Maybe she'll bring you back a nice skirt, if there's time to shop after the Saturday and Sunday meetings. Bummer man.
Ok so it sounds like George is bringing the kids. Oddly this blog post disappeared from your site for a few days any idea why? Glad it is back. Where are we starting from? and when to leave? I think official check in time is 4pm but likely we could arrive any time. How about we do lunch on our own, meet at the start place at noon and start to ride at 12:30? I would also be open to starting earlier with a lunch at Maynards on Lake Minnetonka. Sean you have a tent now?
Ya, had a funky issue with an accidental "draft" version causing it to remove the post, sorry it took me all day to notice. My house I thought. Lunch? Noon? What? Morning I thought.
I just had the Everett's breakfast sausages (yes! links) for the first time this morning, they're super good. :)
Go slow, hang out? Tune up bikes as necessary.
Ok AM it is. I always like the idea of riding slowly. I will bring my home made maple syrup if you feed us Everetts sausage and pancakes. 9:30ish If anyone wants to pay part of the three camp spots we have the total was $67. I am getting excited for this trip.
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