Philly Bike Club hosts a fall foliage weekend each year in Gettysburg. It's one of my favorite events so I decided to fly back north and attend this year's event after a four year hiatus.
On Friday we did a warm-up ride of 30 miles around the area. Rich W was the ride leader and the ride was faster than I expected....even with the hills! I was not able to keep up so I did the ride at my own pace to give me a preview of the area. We stopped at DeJa Brew coffee shop for our break.
A whoopie pie is chocolate cake with marshmellow creme in the center. In this case the cake was made of pumpkin to celebrate the season.
For the rest of the weekend we decided to avoid all Gettysburg Battlefield rides offered because of the amount of tourists....and cars....that visit the area every weekend. So on Saturday Alan L and Dave G and I decided to ride with the local club, Hanover Cyclers, for a 25 mile coffee ride. They were checking out all of the coffee shops in the area and rate them once they have visited each one That should take about three weeks.
We saw these along our route. They came up towards the bikes to be friendly
Some of the riders on the coffee ride. We were waiting to regroup at a stop sign and saw the cows in photo above.
We stopped at Merlin's Coffee Shop at mile 23.
The Hanover Cyclers--- Bryan the leader of the ride is seated
The riders on the coffee ride
In the afternoon we did a second ride with the Hanover Cycling Club minus Bryan, the ride leader. Jim took us to Cordorus State Park. It was voted as one of most beautiful state parks. I didn't see on the sign the organization that voted it the best. This park is very large and had many scenic overlooks. This park is 3,500 acres so there is a lot of places to explore and one hill that is a tough climb.
It was a beautiful 25 mile ride with lots of rolling hills as well as that one major climb around the last part of the lake.
Here are some photos of the various viewing points of the lake.
Once we were back at the hotel there were some additional activities. One of those activities was pedaling a stationary bike to make a smoothie.
The president of Philly Bike club pedaling her way to a smoothie!
We had a nice dinner at Bay City Grill restaurant. As always there is a Philly Bike Club cake for dessert!
The weather held out until Sunday morning . It was not safe to ride so there were lectures on various topics presented by some of the "experts" in the field who happened to be cyclists. We didn't stay and headed back home after a nice weekend of cycling.
It was a great weekend and I hope to go back again for next year's event.
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