I am thinking of dropping my bicycle off somewhere near Harpers Ferry, driving to PenMar, hiking the AT back to the bike, and riding the bike back to the car in PenMar. I have a couple questions:
1. Do you have suggestions on a safe place to leave my bicycle in or near HF?
2. How bad is the 340 bridge to get across with a bicycle? It is not clear on google maps if there is room to walk outside the jersey wall. If the bridge is not walk-able outside the jersey wall, how bad is traffic at non rush hour times during the week. Having toured coast to coast a couple times, I am not very squeamish about traffic, but do still have some limits
I could use the foot bridge the AT uses if necessary. It looks like a bit of effort to get back to the road from there. I have done a lot of long distance bicycle touring and will be packing very light so managing the load should be a non issue. I'd prefer the road route rather than take a longer route using a section of the C&O towpath. Otherwise the foot bridge would probably be a slam dunk.