I went down the road this morning at a pretty good clip for me, singing “It’s my birthday and I’ll fly if I want to”. And a fine birthday it has been. We rode 64 miles, about 3000 feet of climbing, to North Creek, a very pretty little town in the Adirondacks. It had rained last night, and the clouds were low on the mountains, but no rain all day. The ride ended with a splendid 2 mile drop down to the Hudson River valley, very near the river’s headwaters. I did get a flat tire, but my trusty pit crew, John, Jim, and Susan, helped change it. My new bike has a through axle, a bit different from the quick release tires on my old bike, so it took a bit to remember how to get the tire off the bike. I hope it’s a long time until my next flat, and my memory is good enough to remember how to do it. The day ended with an excellent chocolate cake and ice cream.
Our lunch stop was at a roadside park next to Blue Mountain Lake.
Can you spot the satellite dish on the beaver dam? We are told that the beavers used to have an old fashioned antenna, but they upgraded a couple of years ago.
The Hudson looks a bit different up here than it does at the new Cuomo Bridge.
North Creek’s Main Street has a 220 foot long mural with over 200,000 pieces of glass, rock, and shells in it. Under the guidance of a professional artist, the town’s school children and other volunteers took ten years to complete it. You can guess my favorite segment.
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