Spouses, partners, friends, kids, acquaintances, and serial killers
are welcome. The "full" ride to High Bridge and back is about 23 miles
and about 2-1/4 to 2-1/2hrs at our casual pace. Califon and back is
about a 12mi ride. You can turn around at any point to shorten the ride.
There are many road crossings so someone can pick you up if something
goes sideways.
Bring water/snacks and enough bike stuff to be self
sufficient (spare tube, patch kit, tire levers, pump, mini-tool, helmet,
first aid kit, personal locator beacon, flare gun, bear spray, rifle w/
ammo, sat phone).
The
trail:
https://www.state.nj.us/transportation/commuter/bike/application3/pdf/ColumbiaTrail.pdf
[1]
https://www.trailforks.com/trails/columbia-trail-72086/
[2]
Start/finish point:
https://goo.gl/maps/CkKzLcggBuKNX98e6
Right
across the street from the start is the local caffeine merchant, The
Coffee
Potter.
https://www.tcplv.com/
https://goo.gl/maps/V1puqh1nsMPNXnHS9
Long
Valley Bagel is around the
corner.
https://goo.gl/maps/WBhZF7jsVfmyYk9C6
Rambos Country store in
Califon, right off the trail, has food and drinks (open Sat, closed
Sun).
http://ramboscountrystore.com/
https://goo.gl/maps/q4cAR9ipiPw8RMag7
Califon
General Store is about 1/3 mile off the trail but is open Sunday. I
recommend the Homer but with bacon instead of pork
roll.
https://goo.gl/maps/eNQuB6zT16tiNm3j7
The far end of the trail
and our turn around point:
https://goo.gl/maps/6e8BkUJeCMTQe7Bb8
On
03.07.2019 08:35, edw@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Ride is dependent onweather, of course.
I should be able to do sunday afternoon.
On 03.07.2019 08:31, Dan Justnes wrote:
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<brownshockey@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>From: edw <edw@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: brownshockey
Subject: [brownshockey] Off season training - bike ride Sat or Sun?Sent: Wed, Jul 3, 2019 8:22 am
Day 2 was squashed by my wife's work schedule.I made it a grand total of 1 day in the July hour-a-day challenge.
Who wants to ride Columbia Trail on Saturday or Sunday. Saturday late
Anyway....
Ed
