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FreeWheeling Easy Supplement

September 2001
Mary Shaw and Roy Weil

This Supplement revises the Third Edition

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North Bend Trail (update for 3rd edition pp 244-248)

We haven’t had a chance to ride the North Bend Trail in the couple of years. The ranger reports that the trail is now open from Wolf Summit all the way to Happy Valley Rd (a mile from I77 and WV47) near Parkersburg. Flood damage from 1998 has mostly been repaired, except that a few stretches in Ritchie County are passable on dirt but don’t yet have finished surface. Tunnel #6 (West Union) is no longer a major water hazard. North Bend State Park hopes to apply finished surface (pea gravel) from Parkersburg to Cairo in fall 2001. When this is done, only the sections between West Union and Pennsboro and between Ellenboro and North Bend State Park will still be rough.

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