Bicycle Fun Club: Bike Packing on the C&O June 2-3

[Judd]

Adventure Cycling’s Bike Travel Weekend is June 1-3 this year. I’m hosting a Bicycle Fun Club overnight bikepacking ride to celebrate this year. We’ll leave from Georgetown Waterfront Park on Saturday and ride the C&O Canal for about 40-50 miles, camp on the canal and enjoy the outdoors and each other’s company. We’ll return to DC the next day. I’m planning on tent camping, however if there is enough interest, I’ll look into renting one of the lockhouses which have beds and are indoors. Ride pace will likely be a leisurely 12-13 because the canal is really pretty and I’ll probably want to stop and take lots of nature pictures. We’re likely to see geese, deer, ducks, fish, and heron.

If you’re wondering how the heck to carry camping gear on a bike, ask for help here. There’s several folks that have bike camped before that can help.

If you’re planning on coming or thinking about it, please let me know on this thread. If you’re totally in for sure, then you should consider signing up for the event on the link below. If you do, you’ll receive a Bike Travel Weekend sticker and also be entered in the drawing for a Co-Motion Bicycle.

https://www.adventurecycling.org/resources/bike-travel-weekend/find-a-bike-overnight/?ShopClubListingsaction=bikeTravelWeekend:main.bikeTravelWeekendDetail&idBikeOvernight=2205

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[KWL]

Those who went bikepacking with Judd last June will appreciate this Towpath resurfacing upriver from Lockhouse 25. No more muddy ruts! Too bad the section downriver from the lockhouse in not yet on the resurfacing schedule.

[Judd]

@KWL 189199 wrote:

Those who went bikepacking with Judd last June will appreciate this Towpath resurfacing upriver from Lockhouse 25. No more muddy ruts! Too bad the section downriver from the lockhouse in not yet on the resurfacing schedule.

Good to see this starting to go down. I remember seeing the grant announcement last year. It seems the long range goal is to make the surface closer to what the GAP is like.

This is also an opportune time to mention that I reserved Lockhouse 25 for Bike Travel Weekend again this year and I plan to do a repeat of the open invite overnight bike trip. I’ll post more details as we get closer. I hope for less rain this year.

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