Colliers, WV to Cadiz, Ohio 41 miles, 3200 feet of ascent We are hunkered down in a hotel room in Cadiz, Ohio, after a pretty brutal day. It started well enough. We rose at 6, packed up, and had coffee with our Warm Showers hosts before heading south along the east bank of the Ohio. The ideal crossing would have been a few minutes away in Steubenville, but the Market Street Bridge was closed in 2023, I believe, apparently unsafe for even pedestrians and cyclists. So we had to continue south to cross at Wellsburg. After crossing, we had a bit of a climb from there to New Alexandria, them things got bad. We had a steep scary descent to Mingo Junction Gould's Road, along McIntyre Creek. There we started looking for Dawson Road. GPS told us to make a turn on a particular road, but it was signed "No Outlet". While we discussed what to do a woman can by and asked what we were looking for. I said Dawson Road and she laughed a little. "It's just a few houses ...
