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Indian Head Rail Trail

• Rails-to-Trails Conservancy's  "National Trail of the Month" July 2011

Henson Creek Trail

• Download a map of the Henson Creek Trail (389KB pdf file)
• Pictures from an afternoon on the trail
• Dutch "mushroom" signs on the trail

Patuxent River Rural Legacy Ride
Saturday, June 15, 2013

13, 27, 45 and 62 miles from the Merkle Wildlife Sanctuary (16 miles southeast of the Washington Beltway.) This is the Oxon Hill Bicycle and Trail Club's annual ride to showcase Prince George’s County’s Patuxent River Rural Legacy Area, where farms, wetlands, and woods are being protected from development with Maryland’s Rural Legacy Program. Rest stops at the Jug Bay Natural Area in Patuxent River Park, at a beach-park where Magruder’s Ferry once crossed the Patuxent, and at Eagle Harbor in a shady yard overlooking the Patuxent. The 13-mile route includes the Critical Driving Area Tour with four miles of scenic, unpaved road. Early-bird registration is $15 until April 30, $20 from May 1 to June 7, and $30 on the day of the ride. Your registration fee includes marked routes, SAG support, map and cue sheet, food and drinks at rest stops and an after-ride picnic.

Southern Maryland Century - the Indian Head 100
Sunday, September 8, 2013

Ride 16, 29, 43, 60 and 100 miles from the ViIlage Green in the Town of Indian Head (20 miles south of the Washington Beltway). Enjoy riding on shaded roads with little traffic as you pedal to rest stops at the Mattawoman Creek Art Center in Smallwood State Park, a bluff overlooking the Potomac at Riverside, Saint Ignatius Church at Chapel Point, and the Thomas Stone Historic House. Your registration fee includes cue sheets and marked routes, rest stops with food and drink, SAG support, and an after-ride picnic. Early-bird registration through July 31 is $20; $30 from August 1 to September 6; $40 on the day of the ride). Optional t-shirt is $15. More information and registration at www.ohbike.org/century.

Membership and Event Website

Visit the club's membership and event pages at http://ohbike.memberlodge.org.

• Your Membership Profile
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• Ride Reports
• Club Newsletters
  
• Ride Submission Form

Ride More in 2013
 Log Your Miles

Log your miles in 2013 and watch the miles add up, whether 100 miles on a century, 30 miles on a club ride, 10 miles on a trail, or 1 mile to the store. Some people pencil their miles into a paper log, some enter them into a computer spreadsheet, and others track their miles at a website such as mycyclinglog.com.

• Download a 2013 one-page logsheet
  
• Download an Excel spreadsheet with automatic summation of weekly and year to date mileage

You can also can track your mileage online at such Web sites as mycyclinglog.com, garminconnect.com or endomondo.com.

Endomondo.com was the site used by the League of American Bicyclists' 2012 National Bike Challenge. You can manually enter your ride data into Endomondo, download it from a Garmin, or have it automatically entered during your ride with the Endomondo app for iPhones and Android smartphones.

Join the 2013 OHBIKE Challenge at http://www.endomondo.com/challenges/7752718 and let’s see how many miles club members can log during 2013.

 A New Order of Oxon Hill Bike Club Jersey Has Arrived!
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Pay with Check or Money Order Price: $ 60.00 + $5.00 (Shipping) = $ 65.00 total Make check payable to Oxon Hill Bicycle & Trail Club (or OHBTC) Mail with order form to Oxon Hill Bicycle and Trail Club P.O. 81 Oxon Hill, MD 20750-0081

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Members of the Oxon Hill Bicycle and Trail Club (OHBTC) can join the ohbike Yahoo group at http://yahoogroups.com/group/ohbike. The ohbike Yahoo group is for club-related communication between members of OHBTC. Membership in this Yahoo group is open only to members of OHBTC. When you apply to join, please include your name in the "Comments to List Owner."  As a member the ohbike Yahoo group, you can send e-mail to the list at ohbike@yahoogroups.com. 

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