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Emmaus, PA: Powder Valley
| Dist: 20.96 mi |
Points: 652 |
Calories: none |
| Time: none |
Speed: 0.0 mph |
Pace: 0:00 / mi |
| 0.03 mi |
Turn Left |
6th St. |
Then go 0.06 mi |
| 0.09 mi |
Turn Right |
Walnut |
Then go 0.46 mi |
| 0.56 mi |
Bear Left |
10th St. |
Then go 0.24 mi |
| 0.79 mi |
Turn Right |
Pennsylvania Ave. |
Then go 0.37 mi |
| 1.17 mi |
Bear Left |
Pennsylvania Ave. |
Then go 0.53 mi |
| 1.69 mi |
Straight |
Vera Cruz Rd. |
Then go 0.87 mi |
| 2.56 mi |
Turn Right |
Main Rd. W |
Then go 1.57 mi |
| 4.13 mi |
Bear Left |
Shimerville Rd. |
Then go 0.31 mi |
| 4.44 mi |
Straight |
St. Peters Rd. |
Then go 0.15 mi |
| 4.59 mi |
Turn Left |
Schantz Rd. |
Then go 0.89 mi |
| 5.48 mi |
Turn Left |
Indian Creek Rd. |
Then go 0.75 mi |
| 6.23 mi |
Straight |
Powder Valley Rd. |
Then go 0.70 mi |
| 6.94 mi |
Bear Right |
Powder Valley Rd. |
Then go 0.55 mi |
| 7.49 mi |
Bear Right |
Powder Valley Rd. |
Then go 0.96 mi |
| 8.45 mi |
Turn Left |
Palm Rd. |
Then go 1.18 mi |
| 9.63 mi |
Turn Right |
Kings Hwy |
Then go 0.18 mi |
| 9.81 mi |
Turn Left |
Limeport Pike |
Then go 5.60 mi |
| 15.41 mi |
Turn Left |
Emmaus Rd. |
Then go 1.40 mi |
| 16.81 mi |
Straight |
Baumgartner Rd. |
Then go 0.36 mi |
| 17.16 mi |
Turn Left |
Main Rd. E. |
Then go 1.24 mi |
| 18.40 mi |
Turn Right |
Vera Cruz Rd. |
Then go 1.39 mi |
| 19.79 mi |
Bear Right |
Pennsylvania Ave. |
Then go 0.86 mi |
| 20.65 mi |
Turn Left |
6th St. |
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DON'T SPRINT
Location: 40.501095°, -75.443367°
This is a legit town sign, but because you're trying to reach the turn first, it's cooler to work cohesively with the group and let whoever happens to be in front take the sign.
DON'T SPRINT!
Location: 40.457523°, -75.486229°
This creek sign looks like a town sign -- and it's ridiculously uncool to win a creek sprint. Mark, the super intern did this summer, and even though he has a real job now, and is faster than us, we'll always have that over him.
SPEED LIMIT
Location: 40.512535°, -75.503067°
Remember -- please don't exceed 30 mph while climbing!
PHIL'S GAS STATION
Location: 40.510006°, -75.485374°
The odd center of two of our funniest crashes. One ended with an editor wailing, "My shiny new shorts got ripped." Another happened during a granny-gear sprint -- and the winner never stopped to see what happened.
10th St. Stoplight
Location: 40.529770°, -75.504143°
You need to ride up onto the sidewalk and push the button if there are no cars in your lane, or you won't get a green.
POWDER VALLEY TOWN SIGN
Location: 40.471672°, -75.522987°
Always the most mojo to win the town sign a ride is named for -- even if, like this one, it's not the hardest
SHEEP FARM
Location: 40.454487°, -75.497246°
A couple years ago we came past this and the farmer was out near the road cradling a dead sheep. "They shot my sheep," he said. "They shot my damn sheep." There were four dead sheep lying in the grass.
OLD BAR
Location: 40.505856°, -75.496635°
The sign used to say "Probably the oldest in Lehigh Valley." I guess we now officially live in the age of certainty.
TOWN SIGN SPRINT
Location: 40.511456°, -75.461830°
It's actually only prestigious if you win the KOM and this sign. If you sandbag and take the sign, you're nuthin' but a thief -- though still obligated to do it if you're not first up the hill.
LAST TOWN SPRINT
Location: 40.516708°, -75.504547°
It's hard to see, up high in the overhanging branches, and oddly shaped.
We used to sprint to the bridge just past this, which was a faster sprint in a sketchy corner (and, thus, way more fun) but then our friend Ken skidded into a corner and got ran over by a truck. He's walking with crutches now, and we're all nursing the bad corners.
TOWN SPRINT
Location: 40.516537°, -75.505424°
You're a weenie if you for this one -- everyone's warming up.
COOL SIGN
Location: 40.466198°, -75.525978°
This is the way the Pennsylvania Dutch really talk.
Loading Dock
Location: 40.535622°, -75.496506°
The scenic loading dock outside Bicycling's office, where all of our lunchtime rides start -- somehow fitting.
FIELD OF DREAMS
Location: 40.508644°, -75.446693°
This is a semi-pro stadium, irregularly shaped, more than 500 feet to some of the fences, and with shrubbery in the outfield -- grea that something like this still exists.
Fieldstone farmhouse
Location: 40.501884°, -75.511116°
You pass a lot of fieldstone homes, barns and outbuildings -- all of them true to the original name, rather than a marketing construct. As farmers plowed up rocks from their new fields three centuries ago, they used the stone to build.
TOWN SPRINT
Location: 40.456444°, -75.521500°
This is the hardest one to win -- start at nearly 40 mph and sprint up a short hill for the victory.
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