I went out yesterday with a friend to bike the 3 covered Bridges north of Frederick & Legore bridge.

Here's the route if anyone's interested - I did type up a cue sheet, but basically I modified the easy 33 mile covered bridge ride that Zen posted before on here to include Legore Bridge. The hills are a big longer/steeper around Legore and it turns it into about a 40 mile ride.

LINK

We sort of got off to a rocky start with 1 flat tire, forgotten water bottles, forgotten helmet (ride back to car & get), etc. But for the water bottles, since there aren't stores all that often on the route we were taking, I decided to finally pop into the biker's safe house just before Utica Bridge & see if they had some water/gatorade. Unfortunately I forgot to take a picture of the outside of it, 'cause that was when I realized I didn't have my helmet, and we biked back to the car to get it... But the inside was very nifty, plastic table & chairs to sit - a bike work stand, a few full size pumps, trays of gatorade/sports drinks. Powerbars, Tools, maps, first aid kit, spare innertubes, etc. So we took some water, and left some money.

I think Zen has a pic of the outside that she may have handy

(Oh, I forgot that I had picasa set up to put a water mark on the photos I upload, excuse the name in the corner)
Pics of the inside:






Obligatory pics of the bridges in fall color:



That's the Monacacy from Legore bridge - We were talking about how we really have to do a Team Estrogen shuttled trip on the Monocacy one day when it gets warm. Kmerzad has an extra kayak, I have a couple, and I know 7rider has an extra if her DH isn't coming - so we could probably handle a few people that are kayakless coming along (Md Hill slug, Zen, ?)

Legore Bridge (it's technically closed for renovation - not a big deal, just walk your bike across, but be careful coming down the hill to the bridge, 'cause there are jersey barriers right before the bridge)



Loy's station bridge


Roddy Road covered bridge: