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Me and my bicycle
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 other 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 new trail project is underway 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. Much of this trail is already paved now, from the south side of Roy to the middle of Layton, and another part from the south side of Layton most of the way to Farmington. There is talk about joining the Legacy and Jordan pathways. Word is that it will all be finished in 2010.
On the pages of my Bike Riding Stories, reached from the buttons below, I have tried to show the trail locations, interruptions, progress, and any other information I thought you might could use.
Bicycle Riding
eight photo groups
hundreds of photos
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. Once at the south end of Legacy, I got on to Redwood Road and rode into Salt Lake City looking for the Jordan River Parkway trail, I found it at 10th North. By the time I got back to the car, I had gone 32.5 miles. Another time my neighbor Roy and I drove down to Salt Lake City to ride our bikes on that same Jordan River Parkway. That ride was even longer at 46 miles round trip. Some times 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 ride in Provo Utah, is from Utah Lake through Provo City and up through Provo Canyon past Bridle Veil Falls, for 32 miles round trip, on a paved trail.
In the last year I have ridden all of these pathways over and over, even riding 50 miles at a time along the Jordan River. I rode more than 1,000 miles in the first year, and have been doing more than a 1,000 miles each year since. 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. These photos are set to lower resolution and compressed 10:1 for faster loading. You are welcome to look at or download any of the photos. If you use them on any other webpage, please give credit and refer back to me.
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