Tuesday, September 1, 2009

IBM Plant Site and Bike Trail

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Well, I was playing and messed the blog up, sorry, I was on a ride to take some pics of the old IBM site and my bike trail. Started at the corner of Monterey where Walmart shopping center is, needed something there, and then headed across the road...


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This is across the street, where you turn off Monterey left to go over to 101, and the Walmart shopping center is on the South East corner of the intersection.


Turned a bit left for another shot... I crossed the tracks here and went up Cottle to the main gate and turned left on Pok.


This is just inside the gate looking west along Cottle..


Turning left a bit, that is Bldg 010 I believe over yonder...


This is a turn around and looking east, if there was any part of 025 left, I missed it...


As you go in on Pok. the road bends left to go to Boulder, over to Endicott and right along the tracks.... Headed out the back to 099...


This is just a bit right of the park sigh, and that's 010.


This is where Boulder met End. and went along the tracks south.



This is where the road runs between 100 on the left and down the street a bit on the right...


005 ... I was shooting over a closed gate, this was the end of the road, so to speak... GBG


And I was right! 100


The souther I go, here is security / fire dept... 009


And something new being built...


A better pic, I had no clue what it was to be...


A little turn to the right and shot...


This is behind the new construction, with 050 in the back ground.


This is the back edge of the plant and the farm begins.


The orchard...


The road south headed to 099.


'member how the road went around 099? Well, it got chomped and it now goes straight along the tracks.


Like this.... And that's that for IBM...

Not on to my bike trail! I always wanted to take some pics of the terrible trail I HAVE to ride on, and here I was zooming thru with a camera and I said to self, HOLD ON THAR!!!



This is the trail with Coleman on my back and Almaden about a block to the right, looking out over Almaden Lake. Quite nice and they have some BIG 'UN'S in there! I've seen some monsters! I've seen some 28" and 10" round Black Bass, dame big things, that folks have caught, that is in the perk pond I'll show in a bit...


There's a little island in the middle that the birds like.


This is to the right, you can see Mt Umunhum in the back ground with the flat top where the old radar building sits. They're trying to open it up and make it a park, and I will try to be the first up there!


I'm now on the north side of Coleman, under an overpass and this is the backside of the lake. It is currently 5' higher than in the winter months, why they do this I have not a clue, but the damn damn is coming up...


The fisher folks like this place, even tho they have quicksilver warnings all over the place, lawyer signs, I call 'um...


If you look close, you can see the damn damn the water is just at the edge, and the panels that are in place are over 5' high...


They're propped up with logs, come December, they'll let the lake go down and take them down, and put them back up around April. Go figure....


This is the perk pond I was talking about. I saw one guy bash a huge fish head on the side of that cement pump house / control gate thingamajig... That's highway 85 just west of 87 interchange.


The pond goes over around the land mass.


Look at that water! Crystal Clear!



This the other side of that land mass, if you look, there's a turtle swimming...


And another turtle on that edge piece floating on the water... I don't know why, but they line the perk ponds with these things, like a bunch of grass in netting, I don't have a clue as to why, and most of them wind up in the water eventually...


This is under 85 and next to Windfield and Thornwood


I saw a herd of ducks...


Turn out the lights! All good things must end some time, end of the path, now...


I have about a mile on this horrendously busy street! Actually, I'm standing over the wooden fence marking the end of Chynoweth, GBG It's a very nice path and I'm on virtually every day. On the south side of the lake, it goes out and I have different ride options that throw in some nice hills...