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CADILLAC — As temperatures cool and leaves flip coloration, Cadillac’s biking membership is making a change, too.

Throughout summer time months, the membership meets on Tuesday evenings for a experience on the roads.

However over the previous couple of weeks, they’ve been assembly out on the Cadillac Pathway as an alternative, the place they’ll deal with mountain biking for the subsequent couple of months. Later, when snow falls, these with fat-tire bikes will nonetheless be hitting the paths.

It’s one of many blessings of residing on this a part of Northern Michigan.

“We’ve all 4 seasons and loads of trails,‘ mentioned Scott Dunham, who’s a part of the committee that maintains the Cadillac Pathway.

Mya Dunham, Scott’s spouse, mentioned she looks like the realm’s trails are rising. Particularly, the Pathway is getting used extra typically, now that the trailhead has been improved.

It’s attracting cyclists, walkers and hikers.

“You see households strolling up that path and also you didn’t see {that a} yr or two in the past,‘ Mya mentioned.

“It’s turn out to be extra of a optimistic space,‘ Scott mentioned.

“Earlier than, there wasn’t excellent lighting right here … you simply didn’t know who is absolutely hanging out right here,‘ Mya mentioned.

Although racing has principally been canceled, the Dunhams say they’d an excellent season biking through the COVID-19 pandemic. Scott mentioned he rode his bike extra as a result of he labored much less (he’s the transportation director for McBain faculties).

The Bear Claw Epic Mountain Bike Race, which is held yearly the fourth weekend of September, was canceled this yr on account of COVID-19, in keeping with Michele Andrews, a board member of the Northern Michigan Mountain Bike Affiliation, which maintains the Pathway and leads the trouble to enhance the pathway, together with the deliberate addition of 11 miles of single-track path financed by a potential DNR grant and donations from native teams.

Kris Sutton, one other member of the biking membership who’s on the committee to enhance the Pathway, mentioned that along with the health advantages and adrenaline rush that biking provides her, she additionally feels a way of possession for locations just like the Pathway.

On the Pathway and through the membership’s rides, there’s one thing for everyone; quick and sluggish teams and straightforward and tougher routes, Sutton mentioned.

Test the Cadillac Biking Membership Fb group for particulars on upcoming rides.

Do you know this week is Trails Week in Michigan? Via Sunday, you may win a “badge‘ each time you paddle for 2 miles; horseback experience, stroll, run or hike for 5 miles; or bike for 10 miles. The badges put you right into a drawing for outside gear and Michigan-branded prizes. The DNR and the Michigan Trails and Greenways Alliance have set a aim of 100,000 miles collectively. As of Wednesday night time, individuals have executed 26,110.719. To get your miles counted, register and log your path miles at https://runsignup.com/Race/MI/Lansing/MichiganTrailsWeekChallenge.