Spring 1997 - Cincinnati to Yukon
Journals - 23 April 1997
Day 23 - Kaiser Lake S.P., OH
23 April 1997 (cool morning; cool all day with strong winds; overcast all
day with a few raindrops; mileage = 41.7) -- X - Today was "supposed to be"
easy. I had added up 37 miles to a state park I thought would have showers.
Because of this notion we stayed in bed a bit longer to recover from
yesterday until 7:45. We had a two-hour pack up, but we took our time and
tried to let the fly sheet completely dry out. We rode to the bike trail
and rode some of it to Yellow Springs. We kept going on it when its
pavement ended. This seemed to go OK until we got to the flooded section
which was about 1/2 mile of black, wet mud. The tires were great, but the
riding was too hard and slow so we jumped off and rode to Enon where we
were hoping for a food store. Their closest grocery store took us about 3
miles out of our way. Then we turned north for the long, straight, flat
northward ride to Kaiser Lake. Headwind! Very tough. I would rate it a 5/8
or #5 (like rebar) of toughest headwind ridable. I was in 2-2 much of the
time and we were averaging less than 8 mph (8.6 total average! Yuck). What
a long drag that was. Unfortunately, it only gets worse heading westward.
April did a good job of drafting, especially when the wind was straight on.
I feel like I've just ridden up a 30-mile hill. So here we are at Kaiser's
Lake and there aren't any conspicuous signs of campsites, so we've hiked
the bikes down a shoreline (fisherman's) trail to a spot that seems
secluded. There are small ducks doing duck things in the lake (which we are
sitting by). We had quicky junk for dinner, saving our big meal for lunch
tomorrow. We will set up the bivy probably tonight and try Ninja camping. A
- My seat was very hard on my rear today! It was all I could do to stay
planted on the seat!
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