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Cycling the K&P Trail - North End
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- Опубліковано 6 сер 2024
- May 13, 2021
It's a glorious day so a friend and I decide to cycle to the north end of the K& P Trail and back for a total of 90 km. We're not in a rush so we spend the whole day observing nature as we go. We left at 9:30 am and got back at 6:00 pm. Though the ride was relaxing, it was still a long time in the saddle and I was glad to get back.
Thanks for sharing your ride with us. Looks like a lot of fun and very scenic.
What a beautiful day for a ride. I don't think I'd be picking up too many snakes here though. Too many potentially dangerous ones! Nice ride guys. JP
Hi JP. Yes it was a great day for the ride. I can imagine it would be tricky picking up snakes there. You’d really have to know or learn the various species. Quite often I also just coax them off the side with my shoe or a stick so they don’t get run over. No poisonous ones right around here however. Do you encounter many snakes during your rides? I guess you can get some pretty large ones there eh?
@@hervedelnorte7928 Yeah, we get some big ones and deadly. King Cobras are very common here. Missed a four-meter one on my motorbike by a meter or so. I've run over a one-meter cobra on my bicycle and missed another by inches. Sadly, I also see a lot of dead ones on the side of the road. I give them all a wide birth which I think is the sensible thing to do!
@@Biking360 Wow that’s pretty amazing. Yes you’d have to be pretty careful especially along more wild dirt roads and trails and such. There’s another video you can do. My encounters with cobras! You wouldn’t have to get too close - just enough to get some good footage. 😁
@@hervedelnorte7928 lol :) I'm visiting some local National Parks over the next few weeks and they are full of wild life including tigers and snakes. Frankly I don't what to get close to either but I'll keep my camera ready!
@@Biking360 While I suspect it would be rare, I’d be more concerned about a tiger ambush as I rode along through their habitat. I think I’ve seen video of them chasing motorcycles if I remember correctly. I’m a little surprised that they even allow people to ride bicycles through parks where tigers are present. But I guess it would be similar to riding a bike along roads where Grizzlies or Black Bears or Cougars exist in North America. Although I think Tigers might possibly be more prone to ambush a passing cyclist than the others that might only do it if they were starving or desperate but maybe I’m wrong about that. This reminds me of a time I was riding along on the K&P one day several years ago and this loud screaming noise started in the woods beside me. It was the weirdest sound I’d ever heard. I tried to see what it was but couldn’t see in the brush and then I heard something crashing through the brush so I rapidly exited the area.
In any case, I will be very interested to see those videos. Take care,
Thaks for that. I was looking for a scouting report for that trail, for cycling, and you saved me a lot of grief! If you have an opinion regarding a gravel bike route from Sharbot Lake to Renfrew, thanks in advance for any reply.
Thanks Jon! Unfortunately I have not gone further myself. I’m not sure what the current situation is past Clarendon Station.
Based on your scouting, I will not take the k&p north of sharbot lake. I'm more curious of routes easterly from Sharbot L to Perth, and then bending north at Franktown Station station. Google map's corresponding suggestion has two sections (21km and 30km legs) involving the Kingston and pembroke trail. If you have time to share your thoughts regarding that route, (esp yay/nay re those two legs), again I'd be much obliged to read them.
@@jonmcgoey1772I’ve only gone a few km east of Sharbot Lake myself walking it. To Fall River area I think it was. The trail is variably rough over that stretch. Okay for gravel bike. I have no knowledge of the trail further east or north of Franktown I’m afraid. I would also like to figure out this stretch too.