Wilma from Spokane, Washington again delights us with an excellent bike-view recording of going down one if its beautiful trails:
The part of the trail that I filmed is on the Coeur d’Alene Indian Reservation. This trail goes almost border to border, across the northern part of the state of Idaho (northwest corner of the U.S.) It is an old railroad bed that was so polluted with heavy metals from the mining industry that it had to be capped. That was done with asphalt, and created a very beautiful cycling path. No motorized vehicles are allowed on it, and because it is a railroad bed, the grades are very gentle. The first part is steadily downhill for 5 miles. You can see a cyclist laboring past me near the beginning of the film. She must not have been in good shape. I positively flew up that hill, and had to stop several times, to allow my husband and daughter to catch up with me!
What you can’t see in the video, is the many bear droppings that we encountered along this trail. It was quite late in the afternoon (which is why there aren’t too many people), and it made me just a little nervous about getting too far separated from my family! I didn’t see any bears, but we did see deer and turkeys, and of course squirrels and other small birds.
Thanks, Wilma, your videos are beautiful and executed very well, I’m glad I got you hooked on this ;-p.
