Troop 9
Bike Trip, Court of Honor and Campout
Kaufmanhaus
May 26-28 2006

The bike trip will be on several sections of the American Tobacco Trail. American Tobacco Trail is a 22+ mile rails-to-trails project located in the Triangle Region of North Carolina. The route crosses through the City of Durham; Durham, Chatham, and Wake counties; the planning jurisdictions of the Towns of Cary and Apex; and passes through the Lake Jordan project land of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. As proposed, a 22+ mile multi-use trail will traverse urban, suburban, and rural landscapes in route from downtown Durham, at the site of the Durham Bulls Athletic park, to New Hill Road in western Wake County. The trail route is at AmericanTobaccoTrail.html and a map is at ATT.jpg. The trail is not yet complete. There is no all day through route, mostly due to bridges that need to be built over the interstate and several creeks in Chatham County. We will be biking the Wake County and Durham County sections of the trail, since those are through sections. The Chatham county out and back sections will be ridden if time permits.

There is a "food fee" of $12 per scout.  The Risks will arrange or purchase certain meals.  Fee should be paid upon arrival at camp.
 
Schedule
 
Friday....  come as early as you wish on Friday afternoon.  Eat before you leave, but bring your own pre-made foil pack dinner to cook over a campfire in the camping area.  Dinner time would be late, probably 7:00 or 8:00 PM.  Plan on NO COOKING UTENSILS.  Eat out of the foil pack, so NO CLEAN-UP REQUIRED.
 
Saturday Morning....  Get up early (6:00 AM) and start bike trip.  Breakfast will be paid for out of the "food fee".  The Risks will have coffee and juice for everybody.  Bikes and boys will be ferried to the beginning of a trail segment. At least two adults will bike along on the trail segment. A vehicle with water will meet the bikers at each road crossing where there is access so that broken down bikes can be pulled off the trail and tired boys can ride. The ferry vehicles will meet the group at the end of trail segment to transport all to the next segment and repeat.
 
Saturday Noon ....  Cold cut lunch (Salami & Cheese on tortilla bread) purchased by the Risks out of the "food fee"
 
Saturday Evening...  Pot luck Dinner before the court of honor.  Parents should bring enough food to feed themselves and a couple extra.  That way there will be plenty of food if some parents do not come.  Drinks provided out of "food fee"
 
Sunday Morning...  Cook Breakfast over a fire.  Bacon and Eggs & bread, will be provided out of the "food fee".   Boys will cook their own eggs on cast iron skillets provided.  Bacon for all will be cooked by me.  Make a bacon & egg sandwich and eat it on a paper towel (provided).  For Clean-Up, skillets will be thrown into the fire and the egg and grease will burn off..... NO WASHING.
 
Sunday Noon....  Lunch at home.
 
NOTES:  Except for Friday night foil pack, and Saturday night Pot Luck...  all food and drink is purchased from the $12 food fee charged to each scout.  This fee is designed to also provide for the camping & biking adults at no additional cost.  Drinks will all be "bulk" quantity gator-ade or some other mixed powered drink, coffee, tea, or water.  If anyone feels the need for soda, they need to bring it themselves.  everyone should bring their own cup or water bottle to refill for drinks.  We will not be providing throw away paper or plastic cups.  Coffee mugs will be available.
 
Tents.....
 
We can set up the new canopy (with walls) and anybody who wishes can bring a sleeping bag and a ground cloth, and sleep inside.  For those who want either privacy or peace & quiet (or both), bring a personal or troop tent.
 
Cooking & eating...
 
It will not be necessary to bring stoves or fuel, as we will be cooking over campfires. Plates and utensils are not required unless you prefer the Sunday morning breakfast on a plate instead of making a sandwich.  -- DO bring a water bottle or cup to have with you for drinks, both at camp and on the bike trip.

Directions to Kaufmanhaus

Here are the latest directions:
  • From Chapel Hill, Go South on 15-501. 
  • Cross the Haw River and go 1.4 miles to Russell Chapel Road.  It's a major road going to the right.  If you come to a traffic light, you have gone a half mile too far.
  • Turn right onto Russell Chapel Road and go 1.1 miles to 'Saralyn Rd' and turn right.  It's a gravel road with a normal small green street sign.  There is a small trailer park on Russell Chapel Road, just before you get to Saralyn.
  • Go to the end of Saralyn Road (about a mile) and Turn right onto Quartz Hill Road. 
  • Continue about 100 feet to the fork in the road at the Russian Sign, and turn left. 
  • Shortly, at the bottom of the hill, you will see a small cluster of mailboxes, and a road to the right.  That's our driveway.  As you turn, look to the right for a small sign with "146" on it.  The Driveway is about a half mile long.  About midway, you will pass a new road going left up the hill.  Don't take the new road, but continue on to our place.  As you come up the hill, the red guest cottage is on the right and our house a little further on the left.

Directions for Bike Trip

All access points are accessed from US 64, NC 751, New Hill-Olive Chapel Road or Fayetteville Road. To get to NC 751/New Hill-Olive Chapel Road from Kaufmanhaus:

Trail Access Points