Saturday, October 2, 2010 

The weather has been so stunning lately that I've been riding my bike pretty much every day. In particular, I like going riding through the neighborhoods between campus and downtown, then hitting the bike trail at Rasheed Wallace Avenue. The trail takes me onto E. Main Street at the library, and I then take E. Main out to the east side of town. At this point the trail reappears on Highland Blvd, becoming a great paved path which leads past the hospital up to Kagy, about 1.5 miles—the view along this path is simply amazing.

From Kagy I  head back towards the neighborhoods to the east of campus, and then I often ride around the neighborhoods again for awhile—some of the streets are really gorgeous. They're quiet and very green, tree-lined, but then an open space emerges at an intersection or somewhere and you can often see mountains in the distance. Altogether it's a pretty gentle ride, probably about 7-8 miles or so. 

I take my camera with me pretty much every time I go out on my bike. The other day I rode out to my credit union on the far west side of town to deposit a check, then ended up riding through town and out onto the bike trail on the east side. Here are some of the photos, along with some others that I've taken since the bunch that I posted a couple of weeks ago.


Morning mist over the mountains


Every time I go past Lucky Lil's Casino on the way to my credit union I am reminded of mosque architecture in the Volga-Ural region of Russia


W. Main Street—heading towards downtown. That's the Food Co-op to the right. 


(Not so) Grand Avenue. The houses are really pretty on this street, but the street itself has too many potholes and grafted pavement. 3rd Avenue, which is right next door, is my favorite street for riding. 


Rasheed Wallace Avenue


Rasheed Wallace Ave. to the left, bike and trail to the right. 


Les aleworks de Montana


The east side, turning right onto bike trail at Highland


Highland Blvd, my bike, and the trail that I get to ride 5-6 times a week


In case I haven't mentioned it lately, Montana is awesome 


Back on campus


This isn't even a westward view—it's the reflection of the sunset onto the clouds above the mountains, which are to the northeast of me in this shot.

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