ALTOONA, PENNSYLVANIA This is one of my favorite climbs. A four mile warm up climb followed by a four mile steep climb including an 18% wall. Three lakes and a 200′ tunnel. A mountain stream cascading down as you ride up. Trains creaking as they slowly make their way up the mountain. What more can […]
ALTOONA, PENNSYLVANIA Yesterday, on my way from Virginia to Punxsutawney, Pa., for a wedding, I stopped at the Logan Valley Mall for a “quick” ride up the mountain. I always love the climb and it’s always just enough to make me wonder if I will have to dismount and walk. A wonderful surprise was new […]
My mapping skills did not translate to a route to my bike computer and I ended up navigating by feel and asking for directions, a lot.
My first big ride after cancer – I needed to find peace on a bike
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.
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.
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