Riverside X-Country Ski Trail – Optional short and steep bits

 

The trail can be started here at the East end of Riverside Park, West Front Street, Perrysburg, with a nice climb that a well waxed ski can handle easily.

Follow that with a smooth glide down to “Water Street”

and then go West.

The optional “Belazi Bayou Drop-In”

Cross the road to the treatment plant and you come to where the deer showed me this path: “The Channel Chute”. The drop-off was too steep for the one snowshoe explorer who followed but you can branch left for an easier fun descent through the trees, alongside the remains of the very old channel for the long gone water mill at Louisianna.

Carry on North, then West on the ice, if safe, under the Maumee Bridge, around Fort Meigs either CW or CCW, and back home for hot apple cider, ginger and possibly Tulamore Dew Irish whiskey.

Map to follow later.

Iceland and Godthaab, Greenland

Flying home from Istanbul.

South East corner of Iceland. My first ever view of Iceland: looked well populated.
Godthaab halfway up the West side of Greenland

Later, Greenland, and as always, never shows a sign of life. Not even a polar bear whose shadow might have shown in the low evening sun.  Then spent 2 hours looking at the ice between there and Hudson’s Bay. What size splat would a fist size meteor make on the ice? I kept looking for an image like those new ones of Mercury but saw nothing.

Istanbul

2011/4  Safely back. Saw 50 riot police looking like Darth Vaders on the Galata Bridge, a frequent site for protests. They were too scary to even point my cell phone camera at them.

One of many, many mosques.

The beautiful Hagia Sophia. Or is the Blue Mosque? Either way, still stunning after centuries of weather, war and earthquakes. Built before the cathedrals of Europe. I wonder if the Crusaders brought back images to France and Germany?

Bazaar Porter - might be the best way to carry a heavy load?

Waterfront properties on the Bosphorous cost about 4 million Euros.