Biking the Hoosier Uplands, Fall 2008

Jojo and I left town about 5:30 pm on Friday, and headed into the cooling north wind. We decided to try going straight up old 37 as it was past rush hour, and this worked fine, we had very little traffic. We rode straight through to Musgrave’s Orchard at Hindustan, about 10 miles with 3 medium climbs. After stopping for a couple of moments at Musgrave’s, we went east on Chamber’s Pike, which is a nice quiet ride to SR 37. We crossed the highway, and took Dittamore to Denny, which ends on Bottom, which we took home, it was an easy ride with only one real climb out the Bean Blossom valley. We rode about 28 miles, saw a great sunset and new moon.

Nature Journal: The goldenrod and ironweed flowers are still blooming together along all the roadsides, we also so what looks to be a low growing purple flox, but I need to get a good picture for full identification. A hawk flew out of the woods between me and Jojo, then turned and flew over our heads, leading us for several hundred yards, then landed it on the telephone wires. It was a buteo for sure, most likely a redtail hawk, but we had the sun against us and could not see colors. A little farther down the road we saw a flock of 6 full grown turkeys across a fields, their heads and long necks are an ever-changing lavender gray, they were all the same large size, and on at least one I noticed the long “beard” feathers hanging out in front.

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