By Alan Silverstein, ajs@frii.com (page updated Fri Jul 10 13:53:48 MDT 2009)
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For some months I'd wanted to check out the now-completed 20-mile-each-way Poudre River Corridor Trail between the Weld County line and Island Grove Park (northeast Greeley). And it was really nice... To do in April that is, it would have been. Too bad I didn't get around to it sooner!
On June 25, it was... Hot, humid, buggy (gnats and mosquitos), messy (cows and mud at points), wet (puddles on the trail), long, somewhat poorly signed (a few wrong turns), smelly (ah, Greeley, "the smell of money"), and then it was really wet -- I sat out a strong thunderstorm for half an hour starting at 5:50 pm, and finished the last 10 miles and 1:05 in drizzle. I couldn't tell if they were bugs or raindrops hitting me in the face...
Still it was fun, and it didn't hurt too much. It took me 2:20 one way, starting at the downhill/east end (Greeley), and 5:35 round trip. No flat tires, broken chains, etc (whew). Due to storms though I had some headwinds on the return, at least it was mostly downhill... I knew that getting a relaxed, late start was iffy, on a day when scattered storms were predicted. Oh well.
There was virtually no water or shelter along this route, just a (mostly) wide smooth concrete trail that meandered somewhat, often close to the river, but not always.
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