Horseback Riding in The Irvine Hills, California
Country Trails and Riding School is in Irvine Regional Park, which is situated in the hills of Orange, California.
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Mountain Biking Arkansas’ Ouachita National Forest
Are you looking for a new place to ride within a day’s drive of Chicago? If your answer is yes, check out the 1.6-million acres of the Ouachita (pronounced Wash-a-taw) National Forest. Located just west of Hot Springs, Ark., the forest’s 600-miles of trails are an ideal place to escape from the hustle and bustle of everyday life.
READ MORE ›Cycling And The Siren Song of Spring
It never fails: I take my first bike ride in March and I freeze my tush off. I KNOW it’s March, I KNOW March is windy, I KNOW March is cold. But March is also sunny, and if the forsythia blooms don’t convince me, the delicate white blossoms on my apricot tree do. So, zombie-like, I remove my bike from
its winter storage shed, I knock off the cobwebs, and … where’d that wind come from?
Sandy Hook: New Jersey’s Oceanside Bike Trail
Sandy Hook, N.J., is an appropriately named narrow stretch of beach that lies between the Atlantic Ocean and Raritan Bay. It’s the perfect location for an oceanside bike path. The 6-mile (one way) paved trail was built in 2004. The trail is nicely laid out through natural flora and fauna and offers beautiful views of Raritan Bay, the New York City skyline, and the Verazzano Narrows Bridge.
READ MORE ›Stumbling Upon Geocaching
The cacophony of rain on wood was the only sound as the two mountain bikers waited for the downpour to pass, or at least abate, in shelter off a dirt road. Then there was another sound. “What’s up there?” asked my biking friend Jan Duprey. A small plastic container was by one of the beams. We had discovered a geocache.
READ MORE ›Inter-Continental Bicycle Man
Richard Gregg is no ordinary cyclist. He had a dream many years ago or, as he likes to call it, “an itch”: To spend his life riding his bicycle around the world. In 1990 he made a treaty with himself to do just that. Now 12 years later, Gregg has done more than scratch that itch, he has torn into it, his itch now festering away at 25,456 miles and five continents, hence the nickname ICBM (Inter-Continental Bicycle Man).
READ MORE ›Biking The Atlantic Provinces: Labrador: The End Of The Road
New Hampshire resident Marty Basch concludes his 1,900-mile biking trip from New Brunswick to Labrador. In this, his 10th and final report, he reaches the end of the road in Labrador — a place where four seasons can be experienced in a single day!
READ MORE ›Biking The Atlantic Provinces: Visiting Iceberg Alley
New Hampshire resident Marty Basch is nearing the conclusion of his 2,000-mile biking trip from New Brunswick to Labrador. In this, his ninth report, not 15 minutes into Labrador, a 12-mile boat trip across the Strait of Belle Isle from Newfoundland’s Northern Peninsula, and there they were — icebergs!
READ MORE ›Biking The Atlantic Provinces: Screeched In Newfoundland
New Hampshire resident Marty Basch is biking 2,000 miles from New Brunswick to Labrador. In this, his eighth report, Marty becomes an honorary Newfoundlander … the initiation was grueling … to his stomach!
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