2014 March Trail Conditions
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March 6, 2014 at 10:16 pm #995352
KayakCyndi
Participant@Subby 79047 wrote:
What’s the word on MVT/4MR/WOD? Anyone been over that stretch this afternoon?
It is horrible and you should go straight home (ideally by bus)! And in case you hadn’t heard the weather is supposed to be terrible all weekend too, you had best stay indoors.
March 6, 2014 at 10:34 pm #995354dasgeh
Participant@Arlingtonrider 79073 wrote:
the CC connector has been a mess, so that’s not an enticing option for those of us with slicks.
I don’t have firsthand info, so I hestitate to do it, but someone should report the issue with the CC Connector here. It only takes a minute.
March 6, 2014 at 11:34 pm #995356dbb
ParticipantRode 14th St bridge to MVT to CC Connector this evening. I was on 25mm slicks.
Clear or clear line from the bridge to the CC Connector almost all the way (snow continues to be present on the north side of the bridges across the Potomac). The CC Connector is a mess from the GWMP tunnel to the bike count station and then pretty clear into Crystal City (I had to flintstone that stretch). It did look like it was starting to clear. Maybe tomorrow.
March 6, 2014 at 11:40 pm #995358rpiretti
ParticipantAround the Vienna Community Center looking west. Usually this is a pretty bad area for melting but pretty good progress! I’d guess the WOD would be ready by Saturday pretty much anywhere. May be a wild guess though
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March 6, 2014 at 11:46 pm #995359UnknownCyclist
Participant@KayakCyndi 79074 wrote:
It is horrible and you should go straight home (ideally by bus)! And in case you hadn’t heard the weather is supposed to be terrible all weekend too, you had best stay indoors.
Ooooh…. Meow!!!
March 7, 2014 at 2:10 am #995363sethpo
ParticipantFWIW, the unplowed section of the CCT between the tunnel and River Rd is still very bad in the shady areas…aka most of the area. In some places the ice patches were short enough to plow through. In others there was untrampled snow that was ridable. In others there was long stretches that I just walked. I would guess it will take all weekend to full clear up.
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March 7, 2014 at 4:16 am #995365
cvcalhounParticipantNice try! But the Sloppies are all practitioners of Rule 5, and not so easily deterred.
@KayakCyndi 79074 wrote:
It is horrible and you should go straight home (ideally by bus)! And in case you hadn’t heard the weather is supposed to be terrible all weekend too, you had best stay indoors.
March 7, 2014 at 1:51 pm #995371
Steve OParticipantGood morning. Rode the Custis from WOD to Lyon Village (detoured off to get coffee at Java Shack). Reconnaissance on Spout Run through Rosslyn luge will need to come from another scout.
All icy patches have at least a thin line of clear pavement to ride through with one exception: patches at Glebe Rd underpass, but these are short enough to navigate without getting off bike.
Have a great weekend.
SteveMarch 7, 2014 at 2:36 pm #995375ParticipantI rode my road bike!!! It was SO FAST!!! But it has slicks so I took Key to Veitch and stayed on roads to Scott. From Scott to INTERSECTION OF DOOM, there was always a line of pavement, though sometimes enough people to cause a little stop to the side. It wouldn’t be a problem for anything wider/tread-ier than my 28 slicks. (Many of you would have gone right through with my tires). Down to TR parking lot there was plenty of pavement. The trollheim to the TR Bridge also had a line for 90% (again, many of you wouldn’t even have Flinstoned with slicks). The rest of the TR Bridge + DC streets were A-OK.
Man, it’s easier to climb on the fast bike…
March 7, 2014 at 2:54 pm #995379consularrider
ParticipantThe Custis from Lyon Village to the Veitch St access trail still has the usual suspect ice patches. Watch out on the last ten feet of the Sprout Run overpass, but after that the attempt to clear the rollers to the bridge-to-nowhere and moguls area has a clear line through. Just don’t go hot dogging since you may encounter oncoming traffic. That was true in many areas on the Custis this morning. It seems the single track areas like to hide at blind corners and just before hill crests.
March 7, 2014 at 2:59 pm #995380guga31bb
Participant@DismalScientist 79029 wrote:
That stretch of the Custis is easily avoidable on relatively calm streets (except in Rosslyn itself):
https://maps.google.com/maps?saddr=Vietch+and+Key+blvd,+arlington+VA&daddr=38.8979742,-77.0841421+to:38.8963644,-77.074048+to:38.8971115,-77.0708501+to:Lee+highway+and+Lynn+street,+arlington+va&hl=en&sll=38.893254,-77.078791&sspn=0.02931,0.017574&geocode=FUR3UQIdV8Jn-ylX0fcwYra3iTE7C7qnhjl5QA%3BFTaJUQIdEspn-yn9Nz-RZra3iTHwHxXAjZYovw%3BFeyCUQIdgPFn-ylnYLEVXLa3iTFwhvWcokQkdA%3BFdeFUQId_v1n-ymJoHSrW7a3iTFxbQG7JKJELw%3BFUmKUQIdLP5n-ymBvq3jWra3iTEw4wirzDfRRw&t=h&dirflg=b&mra=dpe&mrsp=3&sz=16&via=1,2,3&z=16&lci=bikeTried this for the first time last night (Rosslyn to Ballston) — it was much nicer than my usual Lee Hwy route, thanks. That initial hill on Key ain’t no joke though
March 7, 2014 at 5:16 pm #995397Steve
Participant@DismalScientist 79029 wrote:
That stretch of the Custis is easily avoidable on relatively calm streets (except in Rosslyn itself):
https://maps.google.com/maps?saddr=Vietch+and+Key+blvd,+arlington+VA&daddr=38.8979742,-77.0841421+to:38.8963644,-77.074048+to:38.8971115,-77.0708501+to:Lee+highway+and+Lynn+street,+arlington+va&hl=en&sll=38.893254,-77.078791&sspn=0.02931,0.017574&geocode=FUR3UQIdV8Jn-ylX0fcwYra3iTE7C7qnhjl5QA%3BFTaJUQIdEspn-yn9Nz-RZra3iTHwHxXAjZYovw%3BFeyCUQIdgPFn-ylnYLEVXLa3iTFwhvWcokQkdA%3BFdeFUQId_v1n-ymJoHSrW7a3iTFxbQG7JKJELw%3BFUmKUQIdLP5n-ymBvq3jWra3iTEw4wirzDfRRw&t=h&dirflg=b&mra=dpe&mrsp=3&sz=16&via=1,2,3&z=16&lci=bikeWhen you do this, do you go up to Nash and take that to Key? The map has you going the opposite way on Lynn, which I imagine is not how you do it, unless on sidewalks? Just curious because I rode 25’s today, so I think the Custis will still be unpassable. I can’t decide between this way or leaving the MVT and cutting up to the 110 trail to avoid the troll bridge.
March 7, 2014 at 5:21 pm #995398DismalScientist
ParticipantNo wonder I had such a hard time getting Google to draw this. I should have switched origin and destination. If going West (I’m normally coming from the west sidewalk on the Key Bridge), I go straight up Fort Myer and hang a right on Key Blvd. Going East, I would come down Key make a left and continue to Lynn where I would take a left. (Actually I would just go down Clarendon because that traffic doesn’t bother me.)
March 7, 2014 at 5:22 pm #995399americancyclo
Participant@Steve 79120 wrote:
When you do this, do you go up to Nash and take that to Key? The map has you going the opposite way on Lynn, which I imagine is not how you do it, unless on sidewalks? Just curious because I rode 25’s today, so I think the Custis will still be unpassable. I can’t decide between this way or leaving the MVT and cutting up to the 110 trail to avoid the troll bridge.
I would just go up to Ft Myer and take that south to Key
March 7, 2014 at 6:15 pm #995406n18
ParticipantW&OD: From RT 123 in Vienna(Next to Whole Foods) to RT 7
Time: Thursday March 6, around 1:00 to 1:30 PM
Bike: Fuji Crosstown Hybrid with 700C wheels, front and seat suspension80% to 90% of the path seems mostly clear, at least for one bike wide area. It seems that the snow was blown this time. Both trucks equipped with snow removal equipments and snow blowers in the narrow areas seems to have been used.
The worst area is between Gallows RD and Cedar LN. One third of that area was covered with hard packed snow, about half inch to one inch thick, but it was almost perfectly flat snow, with barely any footprints visible due to it being snow blown. The first time it snowed this season; this area was horrible as it doesn’t get much sunlight, it was bumpy and I almost fell several times. This time around I didn’t fall.
The bridge over I-495 is clear for two bikes, the one over I-66 is clear for one bike(2 feet wide of clear pavement, and 2 feet of thin ice layer). The downhill areas around these two bridges are fully cleared. South of the I-66 bridge seems to be fully clear. The bridge over I-66 seems to be clear as well. I didn’t go south of RT7 intersection, but it looks like it’s fully clear as that area gets lots of sunshine.
Late Wednesday I used a shovel to clear two spots at the RT123 intersection for incoming and outgoing bikes, just in case it doesn’t melt fast enough for Saturday.
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