Summer

As I have strayed away from posting this year, I guess I hava lotta catching up to do.

In June, we had a few notable events at Wompy: Railbed clearing to connect key trails--a quick easy project with the great crew that we had, which included The infamous tandem-riding Schows

with their newborn(weeks-old) Ellie in a frontal sling, helping with sawing and lopping limbs...

SEMass NEMBA and FoW hosted the First Ever P

an Mass Challenge Kids Ride Mountain Bike Loops! A drizzly day with a huge turnout, I was very impressed with the organization of the PMC in general. Parking, registration, marshalling, vendors, lots of good free food for the volunteers, including Hingham's own Red-Eye Roasters with made-to-order french press coffee! We put together two loops for younger and older kids, and the best thing was that they all learned something along the way, and they were all ridin' and smilin'!

Another couple of Trail Care Days(TCD) resulted in at least 3 more bridges being slip-proofed with wire mesh...

I actually held an 'every friday morning' ride at Blue Hills for about 6 weeks straight,until the kids were done with school for summer. One morning there were 6 of us!

Early July, we went on vacation and stayed up in Laconia, which is of course the motorcycling capital of the east, but not the most bike-friendly place around. Off-roading in that area is limited to a few dirt roads and housing-construction sites. At least within minutes riding from the condo at Weirs beach. I did find a cool park within a 6-mile road ride on the hottest day of the century which left me close to heatstroke by the time I got there to enjoy it. Most notable of that week (besides water-body hopping from the pools to various lakes and rivers) was the ride with Matt and Kevin from CNH NEMBA at Franklin Falls Dam. Swoopy cape-style riding with hardly a rock or root, and a Sidewinder-style ravine ride to top it off!