We rode to the Essenhaus in the afternoon. When we got to the section that was closed for sealing just north of the U.S. 20 tunnel, we managed to get to by on the grass. June had a Snickerdoodle cookie, and I had something with blueberries. When we got back to Abshire, there was a group of Amish (about 12 that looked like two families with kids who were eight to teens in age) unloading their bikes from a huge trailer. As we were putting our bikes in our van, June asked them where they were going, and they said to Shipshewana. Then I asked one of the adults if they knew that the trail was closed in Middlebury, and they said they did not. By that time their driver who had pulled their trailer had left Abshire, so they would have to get to Shipshewana on the Pumpkinvine. Somewhere I had seen a map of the detour, so I explained where to go when they reached the detour, but it was hard to explain in the abstract. What was frustrating is that I had to tell them that there were no signs on the Ridge Run Trail indicating where the detour went. They seemed particularly confused about how to get back on the Pumpkinvine on the east side of Shipshewana using the new trail. I thought you’d like to know that closing the trail without more signs and publicity is a problem for casual users.