Adventure Log 201501

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Title: Adventure Log 201501

Daily Ride: Definitely

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This will be a live updated/edited blog.

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I somewhat spontaneously planned this adventure. This will be the first of many outside adventures this year. And I am super excited.

My objectives:

•Ride my Trek HulkRip over a wooden bridge that was originally built in 1863

•I want to create and also enjoy a few Arcadia Ales Sky High Rye cans in some key placed check-ins.

•I want to enjoy the weather as the high is claiming to be 14* C.

•I want to have a great ride, do a bit of elevation gain throughout, take some awesome pics and update this blog as much as possible. Which I always write on my Notes iPhone app and then copy and paste with magic.

•I also somewhat planned a Vegan lunch that I’ll pack and enjoy at The Red Covered Bridge Park.

-Due to heavy, dense and extremely wet airy fog, I’m going to depart via bicycle at 1100.

•To Be Continued/Updated/Edited

RIDE CANCELLATION DUE TO FOG AND FEAR OF NOT BEING SEEN.

Those Vegan sandwiches I packed for lunch are amazing!

I used:

-Leftover “Corned Beef” Seitan, charred, and diced

-Veganaise combined with celery seed, paprika, cayenne, mustard and garlic p.

-Sliced onion, tomatoes and cucumber

-Kale

-On toasted Rye bread

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I decided to try my luck doing a bit of hiking. I knew it was gonna be messy at Starved Rock State Park, so I brought a few beers. My goal was to hike to this cave/crevous that is roughly (muddy & icy) eight kilometers from the lodge. Nothing crazy, but a decent hike. I did not succeed in hiking to the crevously cave, due to an error in timing with my pickup ride. It was fun and challenging in a few spots that I chose to venture Lewis and Clarke style. I took a bunch of pics and here are a few.