Mountain bikers love singletrack. Sometimes it seems as though narrow, twisty trails are all we ever talk or think about… that and bikes.

I love the stuff myself, but a little extra width won’t put me off a nice piece of trail. I first got into mountain biking by riding along the power lines and associated [...]

I couldn’t bring myself to the gym again last evening despite the rain, so I brought my kayak to the brook, instead.
 
Here’s what I found, more or less in chronological order:
 
One large splash, something between bullfrog and beaver.
Vapor off the warm water, despite the humidity of the cool evening air.
 
Two muskrat, maybe three. 
 
One blue [...]

So, my boy Evan broke his first bone last weekend.
I’m so proud.
Really, I am.
 
 
We’d been skateboarding, practicing slalom runs in a large, local parking lot with a gentle slope and a fresh coat of asphalt (I’ll not say which one, I hope to keep using it). After he traded the faster slalom deck for his street board, I [...]

I checked out two new (to me) mountain bike trail systems recently, one very well known and one a little less so. Guess which one I liked best?
I’m a predictable snob… other things being equal, I’ll always favor the obscure. Both were far enough from home that I drove to get there.
 
The FOMBA trails around little [...]

I knew that such a tool as “map my ride” must exist somewhere, and I just now found it while poking around on the excellent Souhegan Cycleworks website (I like how they rate local hills!).
My cycle computer seems to have crapped out (fresh batteries didn’t fix it), so I have no way of knowing how [...]

I’ve always liked hiking alone, but the social aspects of group hiking recently have been brought to my attention (thanks, Cathy!). In short, group hikes might be a good way to meet single women (or your gender of choice), especially the active, outdoorsy type.
 
It’s not the first time a woman has told me to take a hike, and I’m [...]

I like trains just fine, but I like bicycles even better, and the Nashua River Rail Trail (paved) and the Mason Rail Trail (unpaved) are two of my favorite places to ride a bicycle. Maybe someday they will be connected, but don’t count on it.
The two trails do connect, in the sense that both of [...]

I may be lazy, but not so lazy as it looks… I had a couple of posts since the last, but they vanished promptly after publications, the victim of some sort of computer screw up. One was about National Trails day… it’s coming up this Saturday. The other was about some local mountain bike races last [...]