Sun Makes Another Appearance

As you see at the base of the Precipice Trail, in Acadia National Park, above the sun made a rare appearance this week. It spent most of the mid-morning g to mid-afternoon putting on some Vitamin D time for us. 

The Precipice Trail is still closed for nesting falcons until later in the spring.

And just a couple of miles later, as you see above, in Thunder Hole the fog socked the park in and visibility was less than half a mile…

… all throughout the eastern portion of the loop trail it was as if we were cycling during another season.

Christopher and Dan, a couple of the 13 riders making their way down to Washington DC.

Today’s loop ride was a shakedown ride for the group leaders to gauge rider’s abilities, and for the riders to make any last minute gear adjustments.

Blue sky broke through again for a fleeting view of Cadillac Mountain in the fog-shrouded distance, as seen from Otter Cove.

By midday the sun was shining again and the loop road was wide open for biking as traffic was relatively light.

A view of a glacial erratic in the distance above the sign identifying it on the North Bubble.

Full sunshine at Eagle Lake at the last of today’s 10 climbing summits. From here it was nearly 3 miles all downhill.

Bike Day: Shakendown Ride Around Loop Road
Start: Bar Harbor, ME
End: Bar Harbor, ME
Miles: 22.06

Even though today, Friday, May 9th is tour day number three, it’ll actually be the first day we make positive miles on the East Coast Greenway Trail, i.e., actually biking the trail south towards Washington, DC, and we’ll do so now for the next 30 days.

What I’m Reading:

We are what happens when the seemingly
unthinkable celebrity rises to power.
Our existence makes my eyes hurt.
People are forever thinking that the unthinkable can’t happen. If it doesn’t exist in thought, then it can’t exist in life. And then, in the blink of an eye, in a moment of danger, a figure who takes power from our weak desires and failures emerges like a rib from sand.

— Lydia Yuknavitch / The Book of Joan