Saturday, October 13, 2018

Corsica/Tuscany Day 5

Day 5:  Arrival in Corsica at L'Ile Rousse-Ride to Galeria

This morning's weather was spectacular as we arrived in the port of L'Ile Rousse on the northern coast of Corsica.  After Bill's brief route talk which was typically vague Erik and Beth had some mechanical problems on their bike checked and I changed our rear tire (so I could return Erik his spare).  This got us on the road by about 10:30.  The route today took us uptake side of a mountain from the port to some small hill towns with great views of the lush scenery and the Med several hundred feet (that we had to climb) below.After about a 700 ft climb, we entered a small village.  The route was confusing with the GPS pink line (Bill's track for us that we were supposed to follow at all cost) cutting off from the main road down a stone pathway that eventually petered out and became a goat trail. One of the guides told us that this was the correct path so we believed her. On we pressed with the trail, now a full on hike with scrambling up boulders in our SIDI bike shoes carrying a 40 lb bike.  Fortunately, Wolfgang, one of the people in charge was shocked at the quality of the trail.  He thought it was even too tough for excellent mountain biker.  He was extremely helpful, helping to carry and even carrying our bikes up the steepest boulders.Finally after a mile of tough climbing we hit road. After an additional climb (now about 10 miles of climbing) we got a terrifying ride down the mountain                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              after our terrible goat path experience.
Rest of the day had spectacular riding and scenery, and no goats!



























Trying finish this without success. Dozing off as I right.  Will write more tomorrow.

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