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Oneied Cooky · Posted: Mon Apr 17, 2006 8:22 pm Post subject:

Sorry for dissappearing on you guys tonight, But I had to stop and suck wind for about 5 mins! Figgered the truck was still 3.5 miles away I better head for it. My body was telling me ENOUGH! By the time I got back. Great time! No pain no gain! Cool

..... Now if we can get a tricycle and a little pointy hat....
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pfalstad · Geocacher Joined: 02 Feb 2006 Posts: 963 Location: Edina

LucidOndine · Posted: Mon Apr 17, 2006 10:59 pm Post subject:

Hah! What a fun time. If you haven't gotten these caches, do so! The bike ride was a lot of fun despite CW complaining about his sore bum.

All cachers accounted for: CelticWulf, GeoPierce, LucidOndine, Pfalstad, Onied Cooky, & RickRich.

Thanks for coming out! I had a great time!!! Very Happy

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celticwulf · Posted: Tue Apr 18, 2006 7:13 am Post subject:

GeoPierce · Posted: Tue Apr 18, 2006 9:48 am Post subject:

I agree! It was a blast! My rear is a little sore too but I'm surprised I'm not sore all over considering I haven't rode my bike in at least 5 years. A great series of caches and a great group of people to find them with. That's what caching is all about! Very Happy

I also highly recommend doing them all at once. We started at Bikeathon - Mill and worked our way to Bikeathon - Tunnel. Then someone suggested riding the 3+ miles out to Bikeathon II: St. Albans Bay (Lucid and I made it there well ahead of the rest Very Happy

) and finding the rest of Bikeathon II on the way back. We had to DNF Bikeathon II: Lake Minnetonka after searching for quite awhile and even calling Gilby for a hint. By then it was almost dark so we found the rest of the Bikeathon II series in the dark. Thanks for the great series of caches, rickrich!
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LucidOndine · Posted: Tue Apr 18, 2006 9:36 pm Post subject: Caching Pics

Here are a few selected pictures from my cell phone of the Bikeathon trip and the general vicinity of the caches as per request.

http://www5.spread-it.com/dl.php?id=20bafea0c70c96733995c0b1b74fef85dc645c76

Enjoy!
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GeoPierce · Posted: Tue Apr 18, 2006 9:40 pm Post subject: Re: Caching Pics

LucidOndine · Posted: Tue Apr 18, 2006 9:46 pm Post subject: Re: Caching Pics

GeoPierce · Posted: Tue Apr 18, 2006 10:54 pm Post subject: Re: Caching Pics

LucidOndine · Posted: Tue Apr 18, 2006 11:30 pm Post subject:

Hahhahah... yea, I love that picture. Glad it turned out!
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Toby Tyler · Geocacher Joined: 22 Mar 2006 Posts: 16 Location: Big Sky

I enjoy reading your tales of the bike trip from Monday. Let me get this straight, this Bike-a-thon series in on a actual bike trail correct? Is it a rails to trails type thing, or just a trail system put together by a city or county. Just wondering beause last weekend I went for a bike ride and then drove to the cities to cache. I was thinking I could kill two birds in a sense... Thanks!

GeoPierce · Posted: Wed Apr 19, 2006 9:04 am Post subject:

pto · Geocacher Joined: 18 Mar 2004 Posts: 136

I recently found a very cool mapping resource for calculating distances of trails, hikes, etc-
http://www.usatf.org/routes/map/

For an idea of what you can produce, see this link:
http://www.usatf.org/routes/view.asp?rID=1889
Its an example of going around Medicine Lake.

You can calculate distances, loops, out and back etc-
Read the directions, and give it a whirl!

You can also save your workings, and add it to thier database......
It'd be cool to see the bikeathon route covered. . . .

GeoPierce · Posted: Wed Apr 19, 2006 11:02 am Post subject:

pto · Geocacher Joined: 18 Mar 2004 Posts: 136

Very Cool! Thanks for whipping that up!

*Cool mapper to?