#FSWormhole

[lordofthemark]

@Steve O 203867 wrote:

As the Great OG of Wormholing (GOG W?), I believe my definition has been incorporated, as per Filipe’s recent post:

That part of the Alexandria bike infrastructure is the “ordinary, everyday route everyone already takes.”

So the tiny sidewalk connection behind the tennis court, from Stafford and 35th in South Fairlington to the sidewalk on Quaker Lane, that was on my regular route from home to Valley Drive prepandemic (before avoiding peds was more important, and when there was more volume on Quaker) is not a wormhole because it was my everyday route? Or was a wormhole because most of my (more vehicular) friends went the way I now go, 33rd to Quaker, or Quaker to 36th?

I could probably come up with a dozen more liminal cases.

To me the whole point of wormholes, is how flexible bikes are – depending on conditions, geography, or the rider’s particular skills and preferences – they can zoom along on an arterial, or take advantage of a sidewalk – the wormhole is the tangible expression of “the bike will always get through” I guess if our local authorities have discovered that and incorporated it into their plans and maps, that makes it less of an adventure – even if more of a triumph.

[LuisFilipe]

Wormholes corrections could be a bit pedantic when the whole goal of the game is to explore pathways that will create a more vibrant/fun/dangerous/safe/faster/slower cycling experience (one might not know what is on the other side of said hole and so we ride depending on the danger level of the spatial anomaly or basicness)

I am not going to restrict the bending of light through wormhole explorations, but I can judge such Wormholes.

There are basic wormholes your level one types (pedestrian at best) and there are FIVE STAR Wormholes that once explored they will leave a smile on your face, such as the Great Clearmont Stair Way to Heaven (My favorite WH in these parts of the galaxy)

The Great Clearmont Stair Way to heaven is an official bike infrastructure, but the design, the remote location to DC based folks and how it takes you from industrial wasteland to scenic country like homes, IT BENDS MY MIND to the point where I think I CLEARED all of the Scientology Levels.

Go Ride Your Bike and Explore.
Ride Long And Prosperous.

f,

[Kbikeva]

Here’s my wormhole. It’s fun because there’s climbing, it’s paved the whole way, and it gets you not only off the busy W&OD but away from the cars on 2 lane Hunter Mill. I made a cut out from my today’s ride map. Do I need to also hashtag it on my Strava ride for the day?

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[camiller]

This wormhole, I’ll call Long Branch Stream Valley wormhole crosses over the Long Branch Stream and connects two neighborhoods on Pickett Road in Fairfax.[ATTACH=CONFIG]22088[/ATTACH]

[LuisFilipe]

@Kbikeva 203886 wrote:

Here’s my wormhole. It’s fun because there’s climbing, it’s paved the whole way, and it gets you not only off the busy W&OD but away from the cars on 2 lane Hunter Mill. I made a cut out from my today’s ride map. Do I need to also hashtag it on my Strava ride for the day?

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Yes, #FSWormhole (And give it a name so that other’s can remember)
Sharky Alley is a great one!
Right on with the WH!

f.

[camiller]

This wormhole, I’ll call the Long Branch Stream Valley wormhole, crosses over the Long Branch Valley Stream and connects two neighborhoods on Pickett Road in Fairfax.[ATTACH=CONFIG]22089[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]22181[/ATTACH]

[bikesnick]

From Chain Bridge Road (near the McLean Metro station) to Magarity Road (at Westgate Elementary School).
This path has opened recently. It surprised me where it went.
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There is a very serpentine section.
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[Catedrew]

Hmmm, OK, I’ll call this the South Arlington Segregation Wormhole.

It connects 16th St. South to 17th St. South. So named, because a current resident told me that the two neighborhood it joins were segregated at one time. The 16th St. S. side Columbia Heights neighborhood (predominately white at one time), and the 17th St. St. Green Valley (Nauck) neighborhood (predominately African American). So named, because there is actually a North Arlington segregation wall in the Halls Hill neighborhood. However, I can’t verify the story about the south segregation wall (needs further research), but it makes a good tale. This wormhole allows one to meander through the neighborhood streets of the area and avoid the dreaded ‘Deadman’s Hill’ of South Walter Reed Drive.

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[Catedrew]

@LuisFilipe 203773 wrote:

You got a name for that fancy hole ?!?

One my most used ones when I want to get out of CCT and head into GeorgeTown without having to carry my bike up stairs.

I believe Boomer claimed it last year, but I can’t remember the name he gave. It has some cool graffiti and could be kinda dodgy to go up/down when it rains.

Also this year you get points for claiming your spatial anomaly, but you can also ride through one that has been claimed and get a point for it.

Ride on.
f.

Sorry – I’m new at this! I have updated my original post, and added this name: “The CC Dank and Drizzly Graffitti Wormhole”

[LisaE]

Just a neighborhood pass through that makes it easy to avoid having to go WAY down the hill to another block to go WAY WAY up a hill just to get to a stoplight to cross Lee Hwy in Falls Church, VA and get on your way.

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[accordioneur]

I was really riding to get a picture for drevil’s photo scavenger hunt, and without thinking I took my usual wormhole that allows me to minimize my riding on Rt. 29 to get into downtown Falls Church. I ride on Lawton Street, which parallels Rt. 29 (Lee Hwy/Washington St.). At the back corner of Madison Park there’s a path that connects into the parking lot of a business on Rt. 29. Since one of my common uses of this wormhole is to get to the State Theatre, I named it “Altered State”.

On my ride tonight I used the wormhole on the way there, but took the street on the way back. See https://www.strava.com/activities/4568838130

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[LuisFilipe]

@Catedrew 203916 wrote:

Sorry – I’m new at this! I have updated my original post, and added this name: “The CC Dank and Drizzly Graffitti Wormhole”

That is some DANK Style! Nice name!

[LuisFilipe]

@bikesnick 203906 wrote:

From Chain Bridge Road (near the McLean Metro station) to Magarity Road (at Westgate Elementary School).
This path has opened recently. It surprised me where it went.
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There is a very serpentine section.
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Ooooo look at those twists and turns. Strong worming force on this one. I wonder who will get the KOM there.

Well played, and welcome back to the game Last Year’s CoWinner. We need to meet up some point in time in order for you to collect you prize.

ride on.
f.

[LuisFilipe]

@Catedrew 203914 wrote:

Hmmm, OK, I’ll call this the South Arlington Segregation Wormhole.

It connects 16th St. South to 17th St. South. So named, because a current resident told me that the two neighborhood it joins were segregated at one time. The 16th St. S. side Columbia Heights neighborhood (predominately white at one time), and the 17th St. St. Green Valley (Nauck) neighborhood (predominately African American). So named, because there is actually a North Arlington segregation wall in the Halls Hill neighborhood. However, I can’t verify the story about the south segregation wall (needs further research), but it makes a good tale. This wormhole allows one to meander through the neighborhood streets of the area and avoid the dreaded ‘Deadman’s Hill’ of South Walter Reed Drive.

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Strong Tale of Worthy of TWO point alone, It makes me go ride it!

Ride on
f.

[Steve O]

@lordofthemark 203876 wrote:

So the tiny sidewalk connection behind the tennis court, from Stafford and 35th in South Fairlington to the sidewalk on Quaker Lane, that was on my regular route from home to Valley Drive prepandemic (before avoiding peds was more important, and when there was more volume on Quaker) is not a wormhole because it was my everyday route? Or was a wormhole because most of my (more vehicular) friends went the way I now go, 33rd to Quaker, or Quaker to 36th?

If it’s the route you usually take, but is not widely known, so your sharing it will stir choirs of angels to sing for others: that is a wormhole. If it’s the route everyone already knows about, then no, it’s not.

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