Join friendly folks for a 27-mile bicycle ride on the Chief Ladiga Trail in the Piedmont, Alabama area.  Ride on Alabama’s first extended rails-to-trails conversion route on an old railroad right of way.  The portion of this trail we’ll be riding on is smooth, 8-10 feet wide and even paved.  There are no hills on this trail.  The trail is suitable for road bikes plus mountain, hybrid and urban bicycles.  Ride through towns, fields and picturesque woodlands.  No motorized vehicles are allowed on your trail!         

Bicycle helmets are required and must be worn.  Please bring a picnic lunch and drink.  Bicyclists’ lunches and lunch drinks will be transported to the bicyclists’ picnic site by car before the ride starts.

Note that this ride is 27 miles long.  Please, no beginning cyclists or cyclists who have not ridden at all for many months or years.  Also no old, heavy bicycles, please.  To be eligible to participate on this ride you should probably be bicycling regularly and currently at least once a week and be sure that you can ride a minimum of at least twenty miles in a day at an average pace of 9-11 miles per hour comfortably before you attempt this ride.  If you do not meet these requirements, please do not come on this ride.  And please do not invite to come on the ride others who cannot keep up with the group or complete the ride.

There will be an optional dinner after the ride.  See 10/17 dayhike announcement above for additional details.

Depart 9:00 a.m. from Applebee’s Trussville or meet 10:30 a.m. at the Piedmont Civic Center.

Info and Ride Leader: Dan Frederick, 205-631-4680 or seoutings@bellsouth.net

DIRECTIONS TO MEETING PLACE
Applebee’s Restaurant Trussville (coming from Birmingham)—4711 Norrell Drive, Trussville, AL 35273. I-59 North to Exit #141 (Chalkville Mountain Road Exit). Turn right at end of exit ramp. Drive to first stoplight and turn left. Applebee’s Restaurant is directly behind the McDonald’s on Chalkville Mountain Road.

DESCRIPTION OF SOUTHEASTERN OUTINGS

Do you wish you had friends who share your active lifestyle and enjoyment of outdoor activities?  Then become active with Southeastern Outings (SEO), a nonprofit organization committed and created to serve people who enjoy being active in the outdoors.  The organization plans, organizes and leads outings such as dayhikes, easy kayak and canoe trips, stream and waterfall walks, bicycle rides, lake events and other fun activities to beautiful sites in our natural environment.  From time to time we also sponsor potluck suppers and other socials.  All events and activities of the group are open to the public.  Participating in SEO activities is a splendid, simple way to make congenial new friends who enjoy the outdoors.

NO DOGS OR SMOKING ALLOWED, PLEASE, ON ANY SOUTHEASTERN OUTINGS EVENTS.

The organization currently has over 300 members.  We scheduled ninety-two events during calendar year 2014 for an average of 8 fun events per month.  We enjoy the outdoors in all seasons throughout the year.  Twenty-nine people, on average, have participated in each outing during the first five months of 2015.

SEO does not charge for participation in any of its outings.  You do not have to be a member to participate in SEO activities.  Dues are only $10.  Please contact Dan Frederick, President, 205-631-4680, or seoutings@bellsouth.net for more information and to obtain three free monthly newsletters with membership application and a complete description of all our outdoor events.

Southeastern Outings now has a website.  Just go to seoutings.org to find announcements of all our upcoming outings scheduled plus some brief, general information about Southeastern Outings, a membership application and 1500 lovely photographs from several of our outings.

Thank you.