Best Biking Photos 2020

 Our adventures took us far this year, with biking trips in Louisiana, South Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, and our home state of North Carolina. Below are some of the best pictures we took on these trips, 35 images winnowed down from close to 2000 photos we took this year. I moved some biking pictures of aquatic critters like gators and spoonbills to the upcoming best of kayaking post since they seemed to fit that theme better. (There will also be a best of hiking post.) According to our tracking software, Cheryl and I spent 577 hours biking, hiking, or kayaking this year. There's a grand universe out there, and we look forward to exploring even more of it! 

Watch where you're peddling on the Greenbrier Rail Trail!

The All American Trail is a dry, sandy trail except where it isn't. 

This baby racoon did its best to be invisible on the New River Trail. 

Watch the tide charts if you plan to bike on Pinckney Island. 

Tide charts are kind of important on Fripp Island as well!

We love a good vanishing point on a rail trail, and the Tammany Trace doesn't disappoint. 

Trails rumble through the sky on Lynchburg greenways. 

Wear a mask! 

Pastoral peace on the New River Trail. 

To date, the Tammany Trace is the only rail trail we've ridden with its own drawbridge. 

A busy bee on the High Bridge Trail. 

A snake wishing it were somewhere else on the High Bridge Trail. 

Also the High Bridge Trail, a little flower next to a trail head. 

Cheryl takes her maiden ride through a new tunnel on the White Oak Greenway. 

Technically, we didn't bike in Clifton Forge, Va, but it's obvious that someone there likes bikes. 

The Greenbrier Trail is a great place to ride through railroad history. 

The moon rising in Marlington, WV, over the Greenbrier Trail. 

I think we found this turtle on a late night ride on the American Tobacco Trail.

A post-rain ride on the White Oak Greenway. 

Shadows on the American Tobacco Trail. 

A monster fungus on the America Tobacco Trail. It was the size of a small pizza. 

Bridge over the New River. 

A good place for lunch off the Virginia Creeper Trail in Damascus. 

Pitcher plants put on quite a show in Lewis Ocean Bay Heritage Preserve. Bring bug spray! 

Also, Lewis Ocean Bay Heritage Preserve has a very loose interpretation of the word "road." 

Fall color on the American Tobacco Trail.

Aww, love, at Huntington Beach State Park. 

Partial submersion is a very common trail condition for the Danville Riverwalk. 

Butterflies congregating next to the Greenbrier Trail. 

You won't get confused about which direction you're headed when you bike the Neuse River Trail.

A bee looks like a spaceship returning to its station in Anderson Point Park on the Neuse River Trail. 

Racing my own shadow on the American Tobacco Trail. 

Pitcher plants have some colorful competition at Lewis Ocean Bay. 

A festive tree on the American Tobacco Trail.

Light through a leaf at Pinckney Island. I think? Maybe Hunting Beach? Or Beaufort? South Carolina, definitely.