Phil
Maximum Pace
- Sep 1, 2007
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Route change...
So, drove part of the way down on Saturday to ride the middle section of the proposed route, looking to close my knowledge gap and link up the two routes I did know...but, I was thwarted by the forest police!
As any good cyclist would, I took the first "road closed" gate merely as an invitation to explore...after all, there was a gap just wide enough to accomodate a triple crank plus pedals--clearly, cyclists encouraged!
BUT...100m further up the road, there was a far more formidable barrier. Plastered with not one, not two, but three NO ENTRY signs, bristling with sharpened spikes above and to the sides, cliffs looming on the left and impassable gorge plummeting down to the right, this gate implied that they might actually be serious about the road being closed. So it was back to the more travelled road for me.
The upshot is we can't close the loop from Kameya to 178 as planned. Instead, I suggest we carry on a bit further south and hit another of the Kameyama lakes and also Lake Mishima. This requires using the 24 for a few kms, which isn't a great cycling road, but we'll be off it quickly and back into the hills before we know it.
Climbing and distance should be about the same as the orginal route. I've drawn a new map (NOTE: Map starts from Lake Takataki, so the total distance is missing the first 20-30 km from the station)...
www.mapmyride.com/route/jp/chiba/721976139
Good news is I've now ridden most of this, so we can be sure it's accessible.
So, drove part of the way down on Saturday to ride the middle section of the proposed route, looking to close my knowledge gap and link up the two routes I did know...but, I was thwarted by the forest police!
As any good cyclist would, I took the first "road closed" gate merely as an invitation to explore...after all, there was a gap just wide enough to accomodate a triple crank plus pedals--clearly, cyclists encouraged!
BUT...100m further up the road, there was a far more formidable barrier. Plastered with not one, not two, but three NO ENTRY signs, bristling with sharpened spikes above and to the sides, cliffs looming on the left and impassable gorge plummeting down to the right, this gate implied that they might actually be serious about the road being closed. So it was back to the more travelled road for me.
The upshot is we can't close the loop from Kameya to 178 as planned. Instead, I suggest we carry on a bit further south and hit another of the Kameyama lakes and also Lake Mishima. This requires using the 24 for a few kms, which isn't a great cycling road, but we'll be off it quickly and back into the hills before we know it.
Climbing and distance should be about the same as the orginal route. I've drawn a new map (NOTE: Map starts from Lake Takataki, so the total distance is missing the first 20-30 km from the station)...
www.mapmyride.com/route/jp/chiba/721976139
Good news is I've now ridden most of this, so we can be sure it's accessible.