Found a trail on the hillside above north Troy, NY

Found a trail on the hillside above north Troy, NY It was the oddest moment.

I happened upon it on a Saturday ride with no one to accompany me . . .

http://www.mapmyride.com/ride/united-states/ny/niskayuna/736128381945358764

and a map to look at :

What is this route?

I had never heard about it.

I took a standard route east to cross the Hudson near Peebles Island, then up into town, north a bit to 112 th or so, then east across some neighborhoods, then up the hill to find a trail or a pedestrian way. Is this cyclable? We'll see.

I bump along to find that there is a real trail, then a chance to go back down near a park. So I rejoin the city streets, turn north, back to 112 or 114, to make it back across the bridges to the western side of the flowing waters.

I return home.

Beautiful Saturday afternoon ride

'Round about 10:30 am I left for a quick one out to Shaker Bay.

http://www.mapmyride.com/add_route_to_blog.php?r=639126868617564418

Air is cool and the sunny day turned a bit ominous just as I got started. Clouds started gathering, but only along the river as far as I could tell. No rain, or threat, but dark, blue, angry grey clouds were dripping into view.

Roads have been worked on, so the ride is smooth and fast. Wind was at my back going out or east.

I took the River Rd. out and tried to follow the Mohawk-Hudson trail in but there were too many pedestrians, so had to leave the trail at the train station and follow the road back up hill near Lock 7 Rd. then on into Edison Woods development. No one could be seen; spooky place on the Labor Day holiday weekend. School starts on Wednesday, so everyone will be out of town until that evening beforehand.

Made it back in well under an hour.

Odometer: 400 km at season's beginning; today: 5280 km, so over 3,000 miles since we started riding in 2010.