C&O Canal Towpath Solo Tour Report

[Jackson002]

Before you start out on your epic journey, I strongly recommend trying some shorter trips to prepare yourself. The towpath is not paved (the surface is typically clay and crushed stone), so it is a bit rough. Therefore, you will need to build up some calluses on your butt before starting out (no joke). The first 20 miles is the most heavily used and is a good place to practice.

[Zen]

you're new here, aren't you?

[owlice]

lol, Zen!

Jackson, welcome to Team Estrogen!! This is a trip report; I'd already completed my journey when I started this thread. I did, indeed, get in a lot of practice before embarking on my journey; see here, for example. (Oh, the things I learned! Oh, the things I still have to learn!)

And I'm still thinking of doing the GAP this year, have signed up for a metric century with a couple of friends, and plan to do the 24 Hours of Booty ride again this year.

Zen, I'd kind of toyed with the idea of doing the GAP AND C&O together, but the pics you've shared of the flooding ... well, maybe I'll stick to just the GAP this year. Poor towpath! I hope it's okay.

[BikeDutchess]

Don't know how I missed this trip report when you first posted it, so I'm glad we had Jackson join TE & bump it up!

[Slowspoke]

I missed it too! I rode a bit of it near Harpers Ferry when I took my son on vacation. I would LOVE to do the whole thing.