Hiawatha Bicycling Club Ride Feedback and Comments

On Friday, 10/21, I rode 45 miles round trip from Spring Park to Lester Prairie.

FYI: Posted signs west of Mound on Dakota Trail: "Trail Closed by Oct 31"

I rode the Dakota trail round trip from Spring Park to Lester Prairie for 45 miles on Saturday, 10/15 ... a brisk and windy fall day.

This is to document the 45 mile ride that I completed on Tuesday, Oct 4 with Renae Morris. Round trip between Spring Park and Lester Prairie

Pretty good ride but some rain.

Wayzata to Meyer, nice sunny fall colors.

On Thurs, 9/15/2022, I rode 45 miles roundtrip from Spring Park to Lester Prairie. The trail on the NE end of Lake Waconia is now open ... no more trail closure.

On Thursday, 9/8/22, I rode 45 miles roundtrip from Spring Park to Lester Prairie. It was a windy day, especially out on the prairie.

I saw 4 pheasants crossing the bike trail ahead of me and then flushed a 5th pheasant when I was just west of New Germany .

Another great ride with great weather and no wind!

It was a gorgeous day outside and a great ride.

Beautiful ride and great weather.

We rode from Wayzata past Mayer. My odometer said 23.12 when we turned to take the trail back. So a total of 46.24 miles. Our longest ride.

On Sunday, 8/14/22, I rode the Dakota Trail from Spring Park to Lester Prairie and back for a total of 45 miles. (For the Thurs,8/11, Self-paced St Boni ride) It was a glorious day for a bike ride.

The 'Trail Closure Soon" signs are still up on hwy 155 and N. Shore Road along Lake Waconia.

On Tues, 8/9/222, I rode from my apt bldg in Spring Park to Lester Prairie and back on the Dakota Rail Regional Trail. A glorious day for a bike ride!

The "Trail Closure Soon" signs are still posted on the trail along the north shore of Lake Waconia - from Hwy 155 to N. Shore Rd. (There are piles of cut tree limbs along the trail that I assume the crews want to remove. Perhaps the recent wind and rain storms have delayed this project.)

I rode the Dakota Trail on Sat, 7/30, from Spring Park to Lester Prairie and back.

FYI: Sections of this trail had "TRAIL CLOSURE SOON" signs on Wed (7/26) & Sat.(7/30)

Good evening! I rode the St Boni this evening, it was great. Sorry I was unable to join this morning. Cheers, Gregor

We rode the Dakota trail from Wayzata past the Sovereign Winery and back to Wayzata. A lovely day for a ride and the trail is kept up well.

On coming back, somewhere toward Wayzata a huge tree fell and was completely covering the bike path (a huge area & could not go around it). Luckily, a couple gentlemen were out there trying to tell me not to go thru it because there were live power lines underneath the tree! They told me to go back around and then haul my bike down some stairs so as to get back on the path, which I did.

When I got back to Wayzata I turned around and went back on path in order to get a few more miles in. I felt really good on the ride and felt I was cruising, which probably was because it was pretty much all flat trail.

I rode the Dakota Rail Regional Trail from Spring Park to Lester Prairie and back on 7/5/22. The ride started out sunny, humid, and with a slight breeze. By the end of the ride it was humid, overcast, and breezy.

Tour de Hoang and Joyce homes! I was surprised the gps app called out your homes! Route was a construction disaster, I needed my boots. But fun nonetheless. Thx.

On 6/17/22 I rode from Spring Park to New Germany & back for a round trip of 37 miles.

Also, I had trouble today accessing the HBC link to report my finish of this self-paced ride. A screen came up marked DANGEROUS with concerns about phishing with instructions to click on a link for Chrome protection.

Thanks

Great ride today. I started at canon falls, road to Welch, and rode back. Beautiful day.

It was a great ride as I rode with Doug and Nancy; they were great ride leaders!

Good ride to get in shape with! I went on Tuesday May 20

Good surface, nice views of the river and close to home for those of us from Dakota county.

A beautiful day for my first ride of the season! (And flat was good for deconditioned legs)

Gorgeous day for a ride! Saw lots of turtles, birds, a goose family, an eagle up in its nest. We started & ended over on the other side of the river (Old Cedar Bridge parking lot) instead of at the trail head address for this ride.

I was really hoping you'd post this ride! I was going to do it anyway but this was great motivation to do it NOW. I went with Nanette, Kent and Judy and we actually started at the Old Cedar Bridge Trailhead. Thanks! Lisa

Bruce, Thanks for posting! I did 32 Miles.

I started this ride on Tues 11/9 at 1:45pm at the Dakota Rail Trailhead in Wayzata and rode to the St Boni City office and back. Unfortunately, due to my early afternoon start time and the clear sky, the sun was strobing me through the trees that line the trail when I was riding to St Boni. Otherwise, it was a nice crisp fall day for a ride.

I started this ride in Wayzata and went to St. Boni. This ride and trail were BEAUTIFUL! I did it on Sunday, Sept 19 and although it was quite windy and 90 degrees out, I loved every

minute of it. The trail was great, it was all level with no hills (which was good because I'm riding with a strained, sore knee). I will definitely be doing that ride again, especially when I

need to ride alone. Thanks for the maps and everything provided for that ride!

22 miles . Thanks

Thanks for posting this one. It was just right for today. Jeanne and I chose to start at Dowling School so we could stop at Sea Salt on the way back. 22 miles

Nice leisure ride on Monday. Thanks for posting Haggith!

I found an ice cream place 3 miles from the swing bridge - I added the to and from to my ride.

Thanks for posting-its a nice ride!

We started in Mendota and returned there for lunch so added about 10 miles to the ride.

We went out to Mayer and back to Wayzata. Jeanne Swintosky and I completed 44 miles. I also noticed we didn’t get credit again this year for a 30 mile ride to St Boni on March 13, 2021. Please correct that. Thanks, Rick

Did the full distance

i did the full trail today

I love this ride. Spring Lake Park bike trail is one of the nicest in the Twin Cities.

An easy ride covering a wide variety of neighborhoods in Eagan. We loved your front yard gardens, Haggith!

Bruce thanks so much for posting this ride! It was a great ride this morning. I actually enjoyed riding in the light rain.

Great to see my biker buddies again!

Ron, I really enjoyed this ride! Well done!

GPS directions don't work well every time the path crosses itself. We went the wrong direction several times. One we went the correct way, we enjoyed the route. Hope to do it again.

Always a beautiful ride even if busy on a Saturday morning!

Good ride. Love the Stillwater bridges.

Rode to/from start from home

A Great route, Leon! I look forward to doing it again on a warm and sunny day. Using the cue sheet, we found that there was a cue missing between #10 & #11—to turn R at the Taco Bell. John added a cue. Greg was along and had RWGPS activated, so we didn’t go too far off course. Thanks!

Love this route and lunch at Smith Coffee hit the spot!

Very enjoyable ride! Always enjoy riding along the river. Thanks for posting.