Day 3 Ohio Pyle to Meyersdale 42 milesTotal = 120 miles

We didn't wake up until 8:00AM, 10 1/2 hours of sleep, I guess we were pretty tired. There was a pretty severe thunder storm last night which left a few puddles around but no damage that we could see. We went to have breakfast which was ok but not up to Marylou's breakfast at the Bright Morning B&B. We headed up the trail towards Meyersdale.

The trail was steeper than yesterday's with unrelenting climbing. Our first destination was Confluence where we started our 2015 ride. It was 10 miles up the trail. There was a lot of debris on the trail from the storm. At one point, a small tree was down across the trail but it was small enough that we could move it to one side. Eventually we came to Confluence.

Now we started following the Castleman river. We continued up the trail on our way to Rockwood.
As we approached Rockwood, it began to rain. We spoke to a couple of volunteers at the visitor center who gave us a recommendation for lunch. We rode into town and had lunch. Turner ate his dessert first! The rain stopped while we were eating so we started back up the trail to Meyersdale.
We came to the Pickerton Tunnel which was just opened this year.

Last year we had to ride a 1 mile bypass, now it was a few hundred yards.
A little further up the trail, we spotted a large tree down across the trail. It was too big for us to move so we went through it!

 A rider came up as we were getting back on the bikes and told us the last 8 miles into Meyersdale was downhill, LIAR!! We kept climbing all the way.
Eventually we came to the viaduct which crosses I-68 and the valley.

We knew we were getting close. We finally arrived and found our B&B. When I went to give them my credit card, I realized that I had left my debit in the ATM machine in Oho Pyle!
We cleaned up and walked into town to have dinner at the Morguen Toole Factory. It was very good. Turner had a pulled pork sandwich which he had been wanting for several days. We walked  back up the hill to the ice cream store and then to our beds!
Again we were asleep by 9:30