Alaska Summer 2017 Rides

[mudbuddy]

When it gets over 60° & it's GREEN, it's Summer


Some Great views now
Rode over the RR crossing tunnel on the P/WHwy.
at the top near Home Depot "What a view"


Yesterdays ride , was showing Bro-Inlaw some of the paved paths
Almost all the way on "Paved Paths"

Blue Lupine/ KGB/Clapp/Church/Spruce/Fishhook
Fought our way thru Wasilla to the P/WHwy
((what a mess for biking / what a mess for any traffic )) no real good safe bike routes thru downtown Wasilla.
Path leads you to Freddy's parking lot & stops, getting to the PWHwy path is like going thru a "Mine field"
Took PWHwy to the cut off in subdivision roads /home


Paths not swept yet & are rocked up by ATVs in places, but ridable.

Be careful on the down hill on the Clapp trail, gravel & sand makes braking a challenge
If by myself, I'dev rode the road shoulder, it's been swept

[mudbuddy]

20 mi ride : Bogard to Palmer / PWHy path
Brooms have been busy
Bogard shoulders swept
(few gravely spots, but riding on hard surface , not sand
PWHy path also swept.
:topjob:

[mudbuddy]

31.5 mi, Shrock / Church/. W Seld/Bev Lk. /Parks

Shoulders:
Shrock (Not swept)
Church (not swept)West Seldon/Bev lk (not swept)
Pitt (not swept)
Parks (not swept)

[mudbuddy]

23 mi KGB/Vine/Parks

Forecast for a week of rain starting tomorrow, had to get a ride in.
23 mi,
New snow in the mtns


Sweepers out on KGB shoulders, maybe they'll get to the paved path there soon,

Crossed over Parks, at Vine, to the Paved path to Church,
new paving to finish the paved path from the RR crossing to Church is in progress.


Rode the Parks Hwy back thru Wasilla (West to East) Shoulder has been swept.
IMO, it's the safest way thru downtown Wasilla,
(I usually avoid downtown Wasilla, ( even in a car) , but going W to E, the Parks has a nice wide shoulder; Church to Hermon Rd) with
few business & Road crossing intersections

[Old John]

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Sweepers out on KGB shoulders, maybe they'll get to the paved path there soon,

When we left home to go to Commissary this AM, there were 2 sweepers going down the bike path on KGB

[mudbuddy]

Thanks
There were a few spot that were a mine field of 1" rocks/gravel
mostly from ATVs . (skinny tires don't do well on rocks)

Not gonna ride it today,
I'm a "good weather " riding snob

[mudbuddy]

36 mi loop

36 mi yesterday,
KGB/Vine/Pitt/BevLk..Seld..Bog/Trnk/Blu lup
IMO a good loop :topjob:



Riding surfaces pretty good:
Bogard getting gravel & rocks on shoulders from UTV&ATVs but still good enough to stay outside the white line
Pittman not swept
No good cross over from Vine to the Parks trail, construction & getting off at Pittman is rocky.

Good to feel the heat from the sun.
See you out there

[mudbuddy]

36Mi day

KGB to Vine, cross Parks to Pittman .."U" turn & back to Wasilla.
Church/ Spruce/Fsh-hk/Seld..Bog Trnk, BL.


Parks paved path is almost all in from Church to Pitman now, a few
short spots at intersections, but a nice new smooth place to ride away from traffic.

Shoulder on Wasilla Fishhook shoulder is swept, but not the path but ridable.

A Good wide, fairly clean shoulder from Fishhook to trunk on Bogard
Trunk & & Blue Lupine path is good too.

[mudbuddy]

26 mile Was/Plmr Fishhook / trunk

Seward Mrdian/ Bog/ Seld/ Lk View/ Wasilla Palmer Fishhok/ Trunk path
Blue Lupine path.



Good ride & little traffic.
Trunk path swept nice & clean & few intersections

[mudbuddy]

27 mi: 6-9 : Seldon.. Bev Lk/ Pittman/Parks

Sew-Mer/ Bog/ Peck/ Spruce/ Church/ Seed..Bev Lk/ Pittman/ Parks path to Church then Parks thru downtown Wasilla



An OK ride,
BUT was on the wrong side going down the paved path on Spruce & it's mostly down hill, going pretty fast, Car
come out of driveway & just stops in time , hood over 3/4 of the path,
Note to self, "Don't ride Spruce path going West, " Will probably Ride spruce to Lucille &
take Lucille to Seldon if I ride this route again.

Did like riding the wide shoulders on Seldon from Church to Beverly Lk road to Pitman, ( 30 MPH & has speed bumps)

Pittman shoulders are wide there to Parks & have been swept.
Paved path back to wasilla is 99% done, intersections yet to tie in.


Riding back thru wasilla on the parks shoulders is (IMO) the safest way thru Downtown Wasilla, West side shoulders swept but
East of KGB intersection to Lowes; not swept,