Ride Leaders: Fred Newton & Roy Westerberg
~34 & ~28 mile options, 10:00 am start from Forbush field, Bolton, MA
Riders - 34 mi (20): Fred, Bernie Flynn, Bob Wolf, Butch Pemstein, Dom Jorge, Elizabeth Wicks, Francie Sparks, Frank Hubbard, Gardner Gray, Gene Ho, Jack Donohue, Kaz Zelny, Ken Hablow, Kim Wach, Larry Kernan, Mary Kernan, Richard Vignoni, Rick Carlson, Russ Keene, and first-timer Steve Carlson.
Riders - 28 mi (10): Roy, Elissa Brown, Ilkka Suvanto, James Hsia, Patrick Ward, Richard Fortier, Robyn Maislin, Selig Saltzman, Susan Sabin, and Tom Allen.
It was a beautiful day for a ride, with a cloudless sky and a temperature of 52 at the start, rising to 55 for most of the ride and spiking to 61 towards the end. The group was in good spirits and the pace was comfortable and conducive to visiting all the way to the dam, where Jack took the attached photos (Thanks, Jack!). It was interesting that quite a number of riders had never been to the dam and were delighted to see it. Even Ken Hablow confessed that he had never been on some of those roads, which I found astounding.
We then left the dam and encountered some more challenging hills like Mile Hill Road, followed by a beautiful long downhill on Linden into Berlin, and then up Highland to Bolton. We continued up Harvard Road, at the top of which the long route turned down Golden Run to access more hills. The short route went straight to Harvard. I thought there would be some long riders who would have had their fill of hills at that point and would prefer to follow the short route, but it was a group of hard core riders, so on we went - down Golden Run and up Brown Road, Stow Road, and, passing through Harvard, up Prospect Hill. Everyone seemed to agree that this ride had a lot of hill climbing, but it was a beautiful day with a fine view from the top of Prospect Hill. Some of the group lunched at Bolton Orchards.
Thanks to Jack for sweeping.
Report by Fred Newton.
Ten riders set out on the shorter ride. Initially, we were intermingled with the riders doing the long ride, but by the time we left the stop at the Berlin Town Buildings complex, we were separated out. We only needed arrows a few times. All of us were favorably impressed by the excellent scenery along the route, especially on a beautiful sunny day, but there were a few grumbles about the amount of hill climbing. Six of us enjoyed lunch at Bolton Orchards afterwards. There were no problems, mechanical or otherwise. Thanks to Pat Ward for sweeping and to all who served as arrows.
Report by Roy Westerberg.
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