Destination: Beer Hall

Working people cannot ask for much more than to wake up early on a Sunday morning to rays of warm sunshine streaming through the windows. We recognize that spring is finally here, and our thoughts immediately turn to today's ride. Where will we ride? Should we ride near here? Or do a "drive and cycle" to somewhere more exotic?

We finally decided to stay near home, and to ride a trail we hadn't been on in more than a year. It is a trail that involves 8.5 kilometres of riding on quiet, scenic backroads (uphill, of course), and then about 3 kilometres of off-road trail riding.

Here is Brian and his 29" single-speed, resting in the cedar forest after a hard ride to the top of the hill:



Tracy's Cannondale was equally exhausted!




Making the ride even more rewarding, at the bottom of the off-road trail there is a huge (and hugely popular) German beer hall. The beer hall also has a "beer park", and you can buy Dunkel, Weisen, Weisenbock, and Pils from an outside vendor. Nothing like a cold beer after a hard ride at 11 a.m. on a Sunday morning.

German Beer Hall - the perfect conclusion


Unfortunately, the wind had picked up a lot, the sun had disappeared behind some clouds, and the temperature was dropping. As you can see in the first picture above, we were not dressed for sudden winter weather, and we were too cold to enjoy more than one beer while sitting in the beer garden. The ride home was all downhill, which is usually a good thing, but by the time we got home from this ride, we were freezing. Brian's ears were like ice, and my left index finger was too cold to even work the brake levers!

It was, of course, an amazing day.