The Pedalshift Project 136: A Tropical Ride on the C&O Towpath

Sep 20, 2018

A free weekend in September around the DC area usually means perfect weather for a multi-day ride on the C&O Towpath. But will a renegade hurricane and a summer's worth of historic rains put a damper on the ride? Sometimes you end up on Plan C in bike touring...

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The Journal: A tropical ride on the C&O

Started out with the intention to go out on the C&O, maybe in some tropical rain. Yeah, plans change when the conditions warrant. Here's how it went.

 

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