There are fifteen seperate bike riding stories shown below
and information about riding paved trails in Northern Utah
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Me on my touring road bike
Paved pathways in the area
Most of the riding I do is along Utah's paved trail systems. There are many miles of these paved trails and more to come. We have great trails along the Jordan River through Salt Lake City, and many suburb cities, all the way south to Utah Lake. More along the Ogden and Weber Rivers in Weber County. Another along the Provo River in Utah County. There is a 13 mile pathway along the new Legacy Highway. And a trail project to pave the old Denver Rio Grande rail line, running from west of Ogden at the north side of Roy Utah, all the way to Farmington to join the Legacy Pathway. All of this trail is paved now, from the north side of Roy into the north side of Farmington, where you can get on the Farmington Creek Trail and cross over to the Legacy Pathway. There is a map for that on my Rail Trail pages. In 2010/2011 work is being done to connect the two mile section between Legacy and the Jordan River Trail. Half of that is finished. See my Legacy Trail page for details.
On the pages of my Bike Riding Stories, reached from the buttons above, I have tried to show the trail locations, interruptions, progress, and any other information I thought you might could use. There is also a button for the latest trail information, 'Trail Updates'.
My biking history
In 2008 one of my neighbors, Roy, said we ought to take up bike riding for exercise. So we each bought new Mountain Bikes and started riding. Together we did a fair amount of riding that first summer. One of the things we did while the weather was good, was to ride down to Ogden most Sunday mornings for breakfast. We also did a lot of riding along the Weber Pathways paved trails following the Ogden and Weber Rivers. Most of these rides were from 10 to 25 miles. Sometimes I would go alone, taking my bike on the back of my 4runner down to Farmington and ride the Legacy Trail along the new Legacy Parkway. The round trip bike ride there is 26 miles. In the past 3 years I have gone south to ride along the Jordan River Trail quite a lot. When finished, that trail should be close to 50 miles in length. I have ridden all of it now, though some of it on streets and highways to get around unfinished sections. Sometimes I ride around part of Pineview Reservoir from Eden to Huntsville and back. Another time all the way around Pineview Reservoir, about 25 miles. One great trail is in Provo Utah, from Utah Lake through Provo City and up through Provo Canyon past Bridle Veil Falls, for 32 miles round trip. Lately I have been putting many miles out on the highways as well.
In the last 3 years I have ridden all of these pathways over and over, even riding 72 miles once and 76 miles another time. After my first short year, I have been riding more than 1,000 miles a year and in 2011 managed more than 2,000 miles. I have 3,000 miles on my mountain bike and over 2,000 on my touring bike, all in less than 4 years. I realize these rides are not extraordinary for you younger folk, though I think pretty good for one my age.
I used a Canon Powershot SD700 IS Digital Elph, 6 megapixel, with 4x optical and 4x digital zoom. Recently I changed to a Canon Powershot, SX210, 14 Megapixel Camera which has Image Stabilization and a lens from wide angle to 14x optical zoom.
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