Great Brook Farm State Park mountain bike & road rides - September 27, 2017

 RIDE REPORTS

 

Wednesday, 27 September 2017, Great Brook Farm State Park mountain bike rides & road ride

MTB Ride Leaders:  Tony & Margie Lee

Road Ride Leader:  Clyde Kessel

32 miles (road), 10:00 am start from Great Brook Farm State Park, Carlisle, MA

 

MTB Riders (13):   Margie, Tony, Bob, Larry, Aliza Edwards, Francie Sparks, Gene Ho, Joe Marcangelo, Julie Dodd, Patrick Ward, Rick Carlson, Tom Amiro, and first-timer Lorena Duquette.

Road Riders (23):  Clyde, Andrea Clardy, Barry Kaditz, Dan Krechmer, Dave Balaban, David Kobes, Jack Donohue, Jim Cant, Kathy Horvath, Kaz Zelny, Meng Wu, Neil Martin, Peter Shaw, Ray Komow, Richard Fortier, Rick Billings, Robyn Maislin, Rochelle Holman, Roy Westerberg, Selig Saltzman, Steve Bader, Veronica Vedensky, and Wing Chow.

Thirteen mountain bikers showed up and rode together on the Lantern Trail.  They then split into two groups, with Tony leading five in the advanced intermediate group and Margie, ably assisted by Bob Cheney and Larry Kornetsky, leading eight in the beginner/intermediate group.

 

Both groups crossed Concord Road and started riding in the Acorn section of the park.  We rode beautiful trails along cornfields, through forests, past cranberry bogs, over hill and dale, not to mention Otter Slide Creek.  After returning to “the other side,” some called it a day, while others continued exploring trails.

 

The weather was perfect and a few of us ate picnic lunches under the canopy. Great Brook is a great location for this mountain biking outing.  We basically ride the perimeter of the park and, when people have had enough or have a mechanical problem, getting back to the ride start (parking lot) is relatively easy.

 

Thanks to Bob Cheney and Larry Kornetsky for leading a group. And thanks to everyone for having great attitudes.

 

Report by Margie & Tony Lee.    

Road Ride on a hot and sunny day . . . . .   First of all, Ray and Roy - thanks to Ray for sweeping and kudos to Roy who designed the original route.  I adapted the route and renamed it “2PI/3 Phase Shift.”  Roy was the only one to figure out what the title means. 

We had two wildlife sightings worthy of note:  a milk snake, alive, in the roadway (I hope no one behind me ran it over), and a gentleman putting a ten pound Hen of the Woods into the back of his pickup. 

As far as I know, there were no mishaps.  However, Neil missed the rest stop and was temporarily lost, but someone reached him by phone and he was able to rejoin the group. 

Report by Clyde Kessel.