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ET's Second Annual Trail-a-Thon - October 4, 2003
Pictures from the Events

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A group of dedicated Eastern Trail volunteers set up an information and registration site in Scarborough. at the trailhead parking lot west of Black Point Road. From here the Eastern Trail goes north to South Portland, and south across the marsh and beyond.

Quite a crowd gathered on this somewhat-rainy morning.  Actually, two trips departed from the trailhead parking lot west of Black Point Road. The 3-mile Scarborough Marsh walk was led on the Off-Road ET by ETA volunteers.  ETA Trustee Bob Bowker led a group on a mile on-road bicycle ride to Bug Light in South Portland

Bob Bowker's group arrives at their most beautiful half-way and turn around point of their ride, at the Bug Light on Casco Bay in South Portland. This is the northern terminus of the Eastern Trail, at the end of the wonderful South Portland Greenbelt section of the trail.

ETA Trustee Bruce Wakefield making sure that Portland Press Herald reporter Deirdre Fleming has all the information she needs about the Eastern Trail and its volunteers. Deirdre and Gregory Rec spent a day cycling the 77-mile on-road Eastern Trail (click here to read their great article) and then joined the festivities on Trail-A-Thon day in Old Orchard Beach

A group of very happy cyclists riding in Old Orchard Beach on the Eastern Trail.  They are very much enjoying the off-road beauty of the trail as it follows the old Eastern Trail rail line.  A just a small part of their joy is riding on a section of the Eastern Trail corridor that is in fact owned by the Eastern Trail.  It's the start of a great trail that together we can and will build!!

(From left) Alan Leathers, Barbara Sykes (Fallansby-Francoeur) and Brigitte Kablitz at the Kennedy School in  Biddeford prior to their Trail-A-Thon ride along the On Road Eastern Trail  down to Kennebunk. At the Kennebunk Creamery, by coincidence, the group  met some other cycling friends and paused for a break to drink some hot  chocolate and snacks before proceeding towards the coast in increasingly  heavy rain. The idea was to ride along Route 9 for the return trip to  Biddeford, but due to the rain, the group decided to take a short cut along  back roads back to their vehicles at the Kennedy School. In spite of the  rain, it was a good ride, as evidenced by the several impromptu stops to  talk and socialize.

(From left) ETA Outings Chair Ethan Davis, Barbara  Sykes, and Brigitte Kablitz at the Kennedy School. That's Ethan's  velomobile in the foreground (for more info on velomobiles, visit his  website at www.velomobiles.net)

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