Greetings from the Allegheny Mountains. I am glad I got here a few days before our bike tour. There is a lot to explore near Ohiopyle State Park. One day I walked down to the little tourist community of Ohiopyle. The town is small with a visitor's center, a general store, bakery and sandwich shops, a motel and B&B, and a few white-water outfitters. The walk down is on a steep, gravel trail from the campground to the GAP trail. But then it is a short flat walk on the rail trail across two bridges that cross a river with rapids. I stood on the bridge a while and watched a guy in a small kayak playing in the rapids. He’d shoot between two big rocks then turn and paddle his way back up that shoot and choose another place to get through the rapids. It was fun to watch. One of the bridges I crossed while on the trail I remembered reading about in The Great Allegheny Passage Companion. The railroad built it with the idea another track would be crossing there too, so the pilla