As I said yesterday, I think the Salsa Vaya is my kind of bike. Today, I headed off for some reconn on a small area in the north of Amherst that I'd recently been told hides some short but lovely trails. Indeed they do -- flat, smooth, well-maintained, and scenic. The pleasure the Vaya allowed was riding up there on the road, then nosing off into the woods until I ran out of trail, then turning on to a gravel road and sniffing around for another trail, and so on. I've never seen a bike more perfectly suited to this kind of advenutre.
Scenes from a Tuesday morning well spent:
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Memorial stone in Mill River Recreation Area |
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Mill River riffle |
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More Mill River trail |
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Presumably the site of the old mill |
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I even covered a snippet of the famed Robert Frost Trail (Puffer's Pond on left) |
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I think the Vaya wanted a souvenir of this lovely jaunt |
4 comments:
I would want a souvenir, too, if I had just experiences such a lovely ride!
You would, you will, and you shall have one!
Great ride & writing, as always. I especially enjoyed the verse on the memorial stone. I think I'll have to commit that one to memory.
Thanks, pal!
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