Articles Written About Past Cycling the Erie Canal bike tours...

101 MILES ALONG THE ERIE CANAL - A BEGINNER PEDALS A PATH THROUGH NEW YORK HISTORY - Fifteen miles I could do. Four hundred though? I hadn't been on a bike for 15 years. I didn't even own a bike. But when my daughter suggested the Erie Canal bike ride last fall, it sounded like fun. Fun in the far distant future, that is, like the next July.

A Brief Reflection on Upstate New York’s Environment - BY GARY S. BOWITCH, ESQ., Albany County Bar Association Newsletter

This month’s Environmental Update will be a departure from my regular column.
Instead of examining recent decisional law or legislation impacting the environment, I’ve decided to write a short reflection on upstate New York’s environment and history and what it means to me as an environmental professional.

What spurred this creative urge? Time away from my law office, of course. Last week, I was one of 500 riders on the 11th annual Cycling the Erie Canal. Organized by Park & Trails New York, a non-profit organization working statewide to protect New York’s parks and trails, Cycling the Erie Canal is a 400 mile bicycle trip from Buffalo to Albany.

Pedaling from Buffalo to Albany-By KEVIN FRYLING, University of Buffalo Reporter Staff Writer

If the secret to the right career is doing something you enjoy so much you would do it even if it weren't your job, then Amy Pedlow just might be pedaling down the right track.

As a university police officer who patrols campus on a bicycle, Pedlow can ride as many as 25 miles in a single day. But that hasn't stopped her from setting aside more than a week during each of the past five years to participate in "Cycling the Erie Canal," an eight-day, 400-mile bicycle tour from Buffalo to Albany sponsored by Parks & Trails New York. This year's event was held July 8-15..
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Bicycling the Erie Canal Corridor - by John J. Rashak

On a Sunday morning  last July, I joined about 400 bicyclists in the Fifth Annual Bike Tour along the Erie Canal - a cycling sojourn along the Erie Canal from Buffalo to Albany. The eight-day bicycling touring event covered approximately 400 miles of paved roads and trails arcing through upstate New York. .
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Cycling the Erie Canal...A Rider's Reflection on his Weeklong Adventure - by William Tuthill

Who hasn't heard of the Erie Canal, the one that is celebrated in song and story?

It was not until I recently bicycled the length of the old canal, however, that I began to understand why it matters so much in American history. Seeing it up close, from the all-revealing perspective of a bicycle seat, made it clear - along with the daily lectures, museum visits and tours along the way. . .
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Eight Days Navigating on the Erie Canal- A Mega-Trail Journey - by Robert Searns

It was the "Moon Shot" of the 19th Century. When first conceived in the 1600's, the notion of digging a waterway connecting the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes was almost incomprehensible. This was a time when horse drawn wagon was the most advance means of overland travel. In 1816, undaunted, Dewitt Clinton and other visionaries of his time decided it could be done. . .
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