Canal ridin' in Delaware

Got off work early today and the weather was just too nice to stay home, so i made a ride out to the C+D Canal to explore some of the trails and fire roads on the Delaware shore. I'd been here before with some other guys and wanted to take the time to do some exploring on my own and see where some of the side tracks went.

Its about a 2 hour ride to the canal if you avoid I-95, but its so much prettier.

Crossing the Conowingo Dam (no toll, its a $5 toll on the highway)


Riding along the river...


I saw a little side track and wanted to see where it led... to a nice clearing near the Susquehanna river.




Out to the canal service road:


Make the first left going up the hill and soon you'll find a nice big field full of mud holes, jeep trails, and even some single track.






On top of one of the big mounds in the clay field











Always something out there to keep you honest with your speed. I ended up hitting this ditch (deeper and steeper than it looks) at about 45 mph, hard enough to move my bars in the clamp.


Further along the road, it started to go away.... I dodged jeep holes like this several times, no idea how deep they are and I'm by myself...


fading...


fading......


discretion, valor, and all that, time to stop riding down the rabbit hole.


The hole almost ate me on the way out





Getting late, time to head home!


And of course, had to get some use out of the shirt

Cool looking scenery and trails.

Sweet ride!

good stuff! You didn't by any chance GPS this ride, did you? I'm in Dover, DE and looking for places like that, that are within reach.

That looks almost like a spot I ride some in Ft. Smith, AR. Right in town along the Arkansas River.

That does look like a good day. Nice t-shirt but if your slipped your bars you might want to be wearing more than that fine t-shirt if you were not, especially alone. Ask me...

Chief_Lee_Visceral wrote:

That does look like a good day. Nice t-shirt but if your slipped your bars you might want to be wearing more than that fine t-shirt if you were not, especially alone. Ask me...

I resembled those shots one time. No pins though.
I'm recovering from a broken leg now. With a rod from end to end inside my tibia....fibia........Ummmmmm The big one.

dc4stroke wrote:

I'm recovering from a broken leg now. With a rod from end to end inside my tibia....fibia........Ummmmmm The big one.

Femur? Ouch!

Nope ....Lower leg ....................Tibia/Fibia.....The rod is only in the Tibia. But they both got smapped.

Had I keep my riding gear on 10 more minutes and loaded the WR up before I changed.......I'd be at work instead of sitting on my arse. But it was over 100 and I wanted out of my riding gear.

Betcha it's pretty wet riding in that area right now!!

SheWolf wrote:

Betcha it's pretty wet riding in that area right now!!

Yeah! May need a "snorkel" for the bike and the rider....

The t-shirt was worn under my 661 pressure suit that I wear on all my dirt heavy rides, I just took the suit off to show off the shirt.

Its humid but clearing up hear, fortunately Earl is mostly off the coast. Supposed to be good waves all weekend, shame I'm gonna be stuck inland. :(

yep exactly how it happened to me. got hot...