Ride for Monday, 14 August

I found some "local roads" in my back roads atlas, so I thought I'd give them a try. Setting out the wind was against me, so I decided to take the BLT trail, as that met up with the start of the road I was aiming for, the Hiking Trail Road. I had to cross Highway 103 to get there, which was interesting, but once I crossed overI found out why it was a local road; no tarmac, dirt roads, and sections where a car would have real difficulty traversing the road due to the number of rocks, stones and potholes on the road.

I got about 10km in and stopped for a bite to eat. I spotted a blueberry bush and harvested off a handful of big, ripe blueberries and ate them. Then I noticed another... and another... and another. I think I finally had somewhere between 15 and 20 hands full of blueberries, all freshly picked and ripened.

I continued on and found a hiking trail signposted with directions to take. I decided to head on and see how far I could go, unfortunately about a km after the park I found the road gated and marked as a private road owned by Bowater Mersey. Since the whole area is owned by Bowater Mersey and the public part is maintained by them for public benefit I couldn't complain too much, but it would have been nice to see how close I could get to Wolfville...

Distance logged: 71.755km
Time: 218:55
Average speed: 19.7km/hr
Max speed: 56.9 km/hr
Temperature: 20C-23C, sunny
Cumulative distance: 4896.394km
Cumulative cost per km: $0.43
Monthly distance: 397.869km
Monthly cost per km: $0.21