As an aside, there are around 15 other states not yet claiming even one Bike Overnight adventure. Among them are Maine, Indiana, Kentucky, Nebraska, and Wyoming. Go figure -- or go to BikeOvernights.org and check out the "Categories" listing on the right-hand side of the page to see if your home state is represented. If it's not -- well, get riding, writing, and shooting photographs!
Anyway, thanks to Al Ringer, shown above, for breaking the Land of 10,000 Lakes drought.
"One of the advantages of living in rural northern Minnesota is the availability of many outdoor recreational options," writes Al, "and many lightly traveled roads. One loop I like to bicycle is close to our house and 50 miles in length. I've done it in a day, but this time I decided to camp overnight halfway.
"So, I loaded up my REI Novara Randonee and BOB trailer. BOB usually stands for "Beast of Burden," but on some uphills it felt more like "Bucket Of Bricks." My trip started at Hugo's Bar, from which point I headed north on County Road 44, passing the Cloquet River and Indian Lake Campground."
After visiting the old Toimi School, where he says folks can get a sense of what life was like at a Finnish School at the turn of the twentieth century, Al continued along Forest Highway 11, "reaching my destination for the night, Sullivan Lake Campground. Its forested setting makes you feel like you?re in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, but with road access. There are eleven sites, most of them right on the water, and it?s usually very peaceful. There was only one other site occupied on this particular night."
Read Al's story in its entirety at BikeOvernights.org, where you can also scroll through our collections of stories and Photos of the Week -- including this week's image, which comes from the August 6, 2012, post Two Days on the Natchez Trace, by Robert Hendry, aka RandoBoy.
Top 3 photos by Al Ringer; bottom photo by Robert Hendry.
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BIKE OVERNIGHTS is posted every Tuesday by Michael McCoy, Adventure Cycling?s media specialist, and highlights content from BikeOvernights.org. Previously, from March 2009 through January 2012, Mac posted weekly at Biking Without Borders. He also compiles the organization's twice-monthly e-newsletter Bike Bits, which goes free-of-charge to nearly 47,000 readers worldwide.
Source: http://blog.adventurecycling.org/2012/10/a-bike-overnight-in-minnesota-finally.html
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