Wednesday, April 3, 2013

3 April 2013

Saturday I finally put the full CRP 200 together, starting not far from my house and looping north into the piedmont. A little dirt, a few historic sites, a Waffle House for lunch. Looking forward to making it an official permanent. Fun.

Entering Ridgeway.
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Near the second control.
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The confounded bridge
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Second breakfast
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A road to nowhere
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Unless you count this as somewhere
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Just after the hike-a-bike.
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This would make an interesting rail trail
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Serpentine stone wall on the right. Gonna have to figure out how to get a pic.
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Not a ride without a cemetery
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Control #3 near the nuclear plant. Desolate. And potentially unreliable--they were closed for the entire Easter weekend.
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Accessing the Palmetto trail to cross the Broad River
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First lunch
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Palmetto trail. Nice. This is the halfway point, and what I built the route around.
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Second lunch.
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Second cemetery. Because two is better than one.
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A little climb at mile 90.
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Gonna have to work on this pic as well
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A PED at Control #5 mile 110 for the final push
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And done. Mile 127 and change. Now to get it RUSA Approved.
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