Jane and I participated in the second annual FANY ride, July 21-27, 2002. FANY stands for many things such as "Festival Across New York" or "Five hundred miles Across New York," or whatever you'd like! In any case, it's pronounced "fanny," as in what gets sore after 500 miles on a bicycle!

Jane and I drove to Niagara Falls on Saturday, July 20, and set up camp and registered. Jane drove our van with our camping gear while I rode across the state with the other riders. We returned from Albany, NY, at the end of the ride on Saturday, July 27.

Jane and I both agreed it was even better than last year's ride! We got to see some of our old friends from last year - about 15/50 riders were repeaters, and we made some new friends. The scenery was spectacular, especially around Speculator!

This table gives a summary of the tour. The mileages are what I read from my odometer at the end of each day. These might be more or less than the official mileages because I got lost, went on a side tour, took a shortcut, or whatever. The total climb is what my eTrek Summit GPS receiver told me at the end of the day.

Each evening, I uploaed the track log from the GPS into my laptop. I plot the track log on USGS top maps - when the track crosses the boundary of a map, there are two maps - I'm too lazy to fit them together!. And I plot the altitude and total climb versus distance for each day. To compute the total climb, I add up all the upward increments greater than 3 feet (the altitude data is somewhat noisy). This simple minded algorithm usually gives close to what the GPS gives, but who knows if its algorithm is any better? In any case, the distance from the track log and the climb from the track log are listed on the plots. I believe the distance is quite accurate - it appears my odometer reading was too low by about 1%.

Clicking on the thumbnails for the tracks or profiles will give the full size track or profile.

The links in the table are to each day's photo album. A single photo album for all eight days is here, but it may take a while to download as it contains 230 thumbnails. (The links from the full size photos go back to the daily albums, not the master album.)

I'm sure I've made many errors and there are many names I never learned or didn't write down before I forgot. So, if you have a correction, or know some names (especially if you see yourself in a photo), please email me at groth@pupgg.princeton.edu. Thanks!

If I learn of other photo albums of the ride, I'll post links here.