Altoona: With the long days of summer giving way to shorter days of approaching Fall, and with the author’s cancer treatment decision hanging over his head, he comes to the mountains for one last ride just to clear his head.
Riding near Ligonier and Johnstown I saw a ton of motorcycles
A traditional club ride from Myersville, Md. to Penmar, Pa. and a climb on Penmar mountain.
Rode over Blue Knob State Park and discovered the house where I had lived 50 years earlier.
I went to Pittsburgh to ride the Dirty Dozen, up 13 of Pittsburgh’s steepest climbs. It did not end so well.
ALTOONA, PENNSYLVANIA I was up early at my parent’s house in Friedens and decided to ride some more in the mountains. I drove to Jennerstown and parked on Main Street. I rode the mile or so out of town then the steep descent on U.S. Rte 30. After a quarter-mile drop, one is at the […]
While I was a marshal at the Tour of Pennsylvania in Bedford and Ligonier, I was able to slip away and go riding in the Laurel Mountains and Altoona.
Stage 5 of the 2008 Tour of Pennsylvania. I volunteered to be a marshal and after meeting in Ligonier, rode my bike out to Stahlstown.
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