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Log inBangor Land Trust gears up for bike ride
Bangor Land Trust gears up for bike ride
by Outspoken on Thu Aug 14, 2008 6:18 am
Bangor Land Trust gears up for bike ride
By Dawn Gagnon
Staff Writer Bangor Daily News
BANGOR, Maine - The Bangor Land Trust is taking registrations for its second annual Frogs, Logs and Bogs Road Ride, a 28-mile loop for bicycle riders beginning and ending at the Bangor Waterfront.
Planned this year for Sept. 14, the ride through several communities that flank the Penobscot River was established last October as the land trust’s annual signature event to raise money for the stewardship of the more than 300 acres it manages and to increase the community’s awareness of the trust and its holdings.
Last year’s 20-mile route took bikers up Route 2 through Veazie and Orono, crossed over to Stillwater Avenue by way of Kelly Road and turned left on Forest Avenue for the return to the waterfront by way of Essex Street.
This year, the ride has been lengthened to 28 miles at the request of participants, said Dick Andren, the BLT board member and avid bicyclist who came up with the idea.
It will start at the Bangor Waterfront, travel along Route 2 through Veazie, Orono and Old Town, where riders will cross the bridge into Bradley and continue on Route 178. After a pit stop at the Bradley Municipal Building, where riders can get a drink of water, participants will head through Eddington and Brewer before crossing the Joshua Chamberlain Bridge to get back to the Bangor Waterfront.
For those who are daunted by such a long ride, a 14-mile route beginning or ending at the Bradley Municipal Building, the longer route’s midpoint, is available. A van will shuttle riders back and forth from Bradley.
"I did the ride on Sunday with my husband and it just really is beautiful," Lucy Quimby, BLT president, said this week. "It’s a much nicer route than last year, with wider shoulders and nice views. It’s less hilly."
http://bangornews.com/news/t/news.aspx?articleid=168403&zoneid=500
By Dawn Gagnon
Staff Writer Bangor Daily News
BANGOR, Maine - The Bangor Land Trust is taking registrations for its second annual Frogs, Logs and Bogs Road Ride, a 28-mile loop for bicycle riders beginning and ending at the Bangor Waterfront.
Planned this year for Sept. 14, the ride through several communities that flank the Penobscot River was established last October as the land trust’s annual signature event to raise money for the stewardship of the more than 300 acres it manages and to increase the community’s awareness of the trust and its holdings.
Last year’s 20-mile route took bikers up Route 2 through Veazie and Orono, crossed over to Stillwater Avenue by way of Kelly Road and turned left on Forest Avenue for the return to the waterfront by way of Essex Street.
This year, the ride has been lengthened to 28 miles at the request of participants, said Dick Andren, the BLT board member and avid bicyclist who came up with the idea.
It will start at the Bangor Waterfront, travel along Route 2 through Veazie, Orono and Old Town, where riders will cross the bridge into Bradley and continue on Route 178. After a pit stop at the Bradley Municipal Building, where riders can get a drink of water, participants will head through Eddington and Brewer before crossing the Joshua Chamberlain Bridge to get back to the Bangor Waterfront.
For those who are daunted by such a long ride, a 14-mile route beginning or ending at the Bradley Municipal Building, the longer route’s midpoint, is available. A van will shuttle riders back and forth from Bradley.
"I did the ride on Sunday with my husband and it just really is beautiful," Lucy Quimby, BLT president, said this week. "It’s a much nicer route than last year, with wider shoulders and nice views. It’s less hilly."
http://bangornews.com/news/t/news.aspx?articleid=168403&zoneid=500
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