Ohiopyle to Cumberland

With the exception of having to walk my bike down a long rocky hill from the state park, staying in Ohiopyle was nice.   I slept well and we had a great breakfast in town (Pam I didn't see all those funny signs in the place we had breakfast).  We got started a little after 10. 

The trails continued to be beautiful. 

And the bridges were beautiful to cross. 

And lots of tunnels to go through. 

The climb up to Savage Mountain seemed to take forever.  One thing we didn't expect to encounter were a family of black bears before the Continental Divide.  Four or five were on the trail.  As we approached John remarked that those weren't people.  As we got closer we were trying to guess at what they were. Then one stood up and we are like those are bears!    Luckily they got off the trail as we got closer and then we rode real fast by them.  Didn't realize bear spray might be necessary on this trip.  

One thing I never expected to see were a lot of wind turbines.  There so many that we had a hard time counting them. 

We even passed the Mason Dixon line.  

But I will say that we had a cold, cold 20 some mile ride to the bottom of this mountain.  I'm not sure where I felt colder especially when we were going about 21 mph down the hill. 

But I can only hope tomorrow will be a warmer day.  It has to get warmer. Good night.