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Home PageDay 3, Hartsburg to New Franklin -- June 26, 2002
Breakfast with the Pancake Man started day three of the Katy Trail Ride. Flipping his pancakes around 6 a.m. started a morning full of excitement and laughter. He flipped pancakes over the griddles to land on the cyclists' plates. Breakfast consisted of his delicious recipe of buttermilk pancakes, grapes, melon, strawberries and fruit dip, cereal, sausage, coffee, juice and milk. The cyclists left Hartsburg with a healthy meal to prepare them for the 35-mile ride to New Franklin.
SAG stops Wednesday included Easley, Hindman Junction and Davisdale. There was an optional ride into Columbia on the MKT Trail. Approximately 20 riders chose to ride into downtown to eat lunch.
Popular highlights of the day were the Pancake Man, Pierced Rock, Hindman Junction and the Perche Creek Bridge. Some riders took a quick side trip to see the Champion Bur Oak. Seven cyclists joined hands around the tree that is about 300 years old and almost 30 feet in circumference. In Huntsdale, there is a new Katy Trail business that is being built and cyclists rode by it on another part of the scenic view of the Katy. Cyclists stopping at Rocheport enjoyed a rest and snack at the Trailside Café. New Franklin was their final destination where they camped at the Katy Roundhouse campground.
Wednesday's feature riders were Joel and Peggy Schroeder from Boliver. This was Peggy’s first ride ever and Joel’s 19th long ride tour. Joel has been on all of the MS 150s and this year they trained for 800 miles on a tandem bicycle for the Katy Trail Ride. “This year’s ride has been wonderful. It is well organized and that is why I’ll be back,” says Peggy.
John James from the Katy Round house welcomed over 300 cyclists onto his campground and some stayed for dinner and beverages at the Roundhouse. The Boonville Chamber of Commerce provided vouchers worth $7 to use at the Roundhouse and participating restaurants around Boonville. Some sample entrees at the Roundhouse was fillet mignon, ribeye steak, smoked center-cut pork chop and marinated grilled chicken breast. Cyclists had the opportunity to shuttle to Boonville to Riverside Café, Main Street Café, or the Stein House for dinner and shopping in downtown Boonville.
Wednesday's passport questions were:
1. What kind of festival is held every October in Hartsburg? answer
2. On which date did the Lewis and Clark expedition camp in the vicinity of mile marker 173, about a mile past what is now Huntsdale?answer
3a. When you reach Lewis and Clark Cave (shortly after mile marker 174), stand in front of the entrance. An endangered animal uses the cave in summer as a “bachelor colony.” Which animal?answer
3b. Look up and to the left of the cave entrance. On the bluff face, look for a pictograph (rock drawing) several hundred years old. Draw the shape of the pictograph. answer
4. Early Missouri River travelers described pictographs drawn on the bluff near Rocheport that included the representation of a spirit. What is the name of that spirit, the line of bluffs along the Missouri River between Huntsdale and Rocheport and (with a slight variation) the name of the creek leading up to Rocheport? answer
Winners of the passport questions were awarded at the riders’ meeting lead by Larry Larson. A special thanks went to John James for letting the cyclists stay at the Katy Roundhouse campground.
More tomorrow on Following Lewis and Clark – Katy Trail Ride 2002!!!
