Today was a day mostly spent in the woods. We have left the urban landscape and decaying factories far behind us. Even through we were in woods part of yesterday those woods still have signs of coal and steel production. Today we were on a dirt trail for 45 miles and under cover of the woods and near the river. The only vestiges of civilization were the train bridges and tunnel we went through.
These bridges were long and high but gave us some great views of the rivers and gorges below.
We went through the Pinkerton tunnel and will go through a couple of more tomorrow.
We also went through the town of Ohiopyle which was a nice small town with some cool places to eat and stay. If I ever come back this way I would spend some more time in this town. We actually went off the trail here about a half mile to see a water fall.
Nothing spectacular but worth the short trip.
The trail itself was very scenic and we had another good weather day. One of the reason this ride was a little easier today is that we did this section from east to west which is slightly down hill. Yesterday we did it from west to east which was slightly uphill but at a 1% grade it was hard to really feel it.
There were a lot of small water falls along the way on the trail on the small rock walls that line parts of the trail. Most of them are small trickles but still interesting. Jack actually climb down to one of them to feel the water. It seems that that is Jack's thing as I have a couple of pictures of him doing it this year.
Being that today was only 45 miles we got done a hour and a half earlier than we did yesterday. We ended up spending the late afternoon visiting the Flight 93 memorial which was close to where we stayed tonight. So even through we got back earlier from the ride it still ended up being a long day.
I have a lot more pictures and details about today's ride but its getting late so I will save that for tomorrow.
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