# 5th anniversary of Canada Day Gravel rides coming up

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**Category:** Gravel\
**Created:** [27 June 2022 16:39 UTC](https://forum.waterloocyclingclub.ca/t/5th-anniversary-of-canada-day-gravel-rides-coming-up/2735 "2022-06-27T16:39:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![KevRidesGravel](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.waterloocyclingclub.ca/kevridesgravel/32/7497_2.png) [@KevRidesGravel](https://forum.waterloocyclingclub.ca/u/KevRidesGravel)\
**Post date:** [27 June 2022 16:39 UTC](https://forum.waterloocyclingclub.ca/t/5th-anniversary-of-canada-day-gravel-rides-coming-up/2735/1 "2022-06-27T16:39:29Z")

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I’ve posted the ride notice for Canada Day. I’m watching the weather (mostly wind) to see where we go. Current forecast is calling for W to SW wind, so we’ll see. Maybe Woodstock could be an interesting option.

[http://forum.waterloocyclingclub.ca/t/canada-day-gravel-155-km/2734?u=kevrideseverything](http://forum.waterloocyclingclub.ca/t/canada-day-gravel-155-km/2734)

I’m amazed to see it’s been 5 years since we started doing this:

**2017** , the Founder’s Edition, 150 km. Here we are at Woolwich Reservoir Dam. We headed mostly north and east, including Bellwood lake, Fergus, and Alma.

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**2018** , The Lessons Learned Edition. It was blazing hot that day, we started by riding through the hydrocut, then we had a mix up while waiting for the Wilmot Rec Centre splash pad to open. I think @CANGERMANN was the only one to do the full route. Now I tend to keep the “trail” sectors short, so we keep our average speed from plummeting.

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**2019** , Southbound and Mosquito Alley. That year we got to head south and explore some gravel and trails south of the 403. And we discovered what I lovingly call “mosquito alley”. Township road 2 west of Princeton pretty much turns into an ATV track, with wet marshy ground on either side. Not a good place to drop a chain and have it caught in your chain catcher, some of us discovered…

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**2020** , 153 km, heading north again, including a creek crossing, and we got all the way to Grand Valley, Arthur, and the edge of Luther Marsh.

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**2021** , the Social Distancing Edition. We also managed quite a few No Winter Maintenance roads up around Alma.

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_ **Who’s in for 155 km this Friday!** _

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**Author:** ![MarkW](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.waterloocyclingclub.ca/markw/32/382_2.png) [@MarkW](https://forum.waterloocyclingclub.ca/u/MarkW)\
**Post date:** [27 June 2022 23:17 UTC](https://forum.waterloocyclingclub.ca/t/5th-anniversary-of-canada-day-gravel-rides-coming-up/2735/2 "2022-06-27T23:17:59Z")

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Nice recap of the years. This kind of thing has been going on a good while in the club. I remember showing up to a Canada Day gravel ride @bill organized back in 2015. I showed up not knowing the plan, which was of course to bike as many km as the country is old. I had one water bottle and no snacks. Thankfully Bill and Doug agreed to stop in Conestogo Lake Conservation Area and we hit up a food truck for some fries and other snacks. It was a great ride and I look forward to this years edition.