Thursday bike ride

Second year in a row, we take some bike rides in Acadia National Park in October. It’s a great time for us to go to the park. Summer crowds are gone. Weather can still be nice. And the leaf color is so beautiful. Even the bare trees add interest to the landscape, I think.

Thursday’s ride was very enjoyable. We started in Bar Harbor and took the Main Street out of town. Then turned on Otter Cliff Road. We ended up at the Park Loop Road, but it was one-way in the wrong direction. We don’t really know the area that well! So we couldn’t complete the loop we planned, but retraced our route back to town.

I was on my e-bike, which I love, and Sam was on his road bike. I can go up hills much faster, so I just wait for him at the top.

What was shown as an intersection on the Apple Map was really an overpass. We looked down the on the road we wanted to be riding. But the side of the slope was navigable, so we just inched the bikes down to the road we wanted. It was a beautiful shoreline, overlooking the old fishing village of Otter Creek. I just took a few photos, and we grabbed a couple of apples from one of the many deserted apple trees in the area.

I took this photo of the Beachcroft Trailhead because it holds memories of hikes we took before we moved here. I think we hiked this twice successfully. Once was early in the morning, in an effort to watch the sun rising from the mountain top. And a third time we had to turn back due to thick ice over the trail. That was during a Thanksgiving visit, if I remember correctly. It may not ever be that icy again at the end of November. Good memories anyway.