The Blasphemous Bicycler

The first section of the Northwest River Trail is now open. It’s only 2.3 miles at the moment, but eventually, it’s going to be part of a 14 mile long trail along the east shore of the Susquehanna in Northern Lancaster County.

There’s a nice writeup on the Lancaster newspaper’s webpage.

The Atlanta Citywide Mapathon made the news! Openstreetmap is now one step closer to world domination.

This is old news, but I haven’t been paying attention, so it’s new news for me.

Carlisle is getting some new bike lanes next year!

Evidently, the borough government decided that having a pair of four-lane highways running right through the downtown was not such a good idea. So they’re implementing a “road diet” which includes the cycle lanes.

This is what it looks like now:

This is what it’ll look like when the project is done:

Nice, right?

There’s a bunch of PDF files explaining the whole project on the borough website.

Incidentally, there’s a guy running for Mayor of Harrisburg who has as part of his platform:

“Eliminate the six lane, divided highway called Front and Second”

Maybe there’s hope for the same kind of “road diet” treatment in downtown Harrisburg.

I made my very own camouflage bivy-sack for sneaky camping trips.

The top is 1.9 osy uncoated ripstop nylon. The bottom is 1.3 osy sil-nylon. I used a modified version of this pattern I found online.

The whole shebang weighs 12 ounces.

I made the top camouflage so I can hide from rangers, game wardens, crazy rednecks, etc, when I’m camping in places I’m not supposed to. Even when I’m camping legally, the camouflage should be fun. I can pretend like I’m G.I. Joe hiding out from the Cobra Commander or whatever. I think this will make my camp-outs more exciting.

I went out to see some leaves and ride my bike a bit yesterday.