Next Week - Heart Pond - East Pepperell - TBD

Dear AdventuRiders,

I am going to New York City this weekend to ride in the Five Boro Bicycle Tour. Just me, Eddie,  and 32,000 of our closest bicycling friends.

So, here is an abbreviated announcement of next weeks rides.

Monday, May 2nd - Heart Pond

The weather for Monday isn't looking so good (again) at this point, but we'll hope for the best.

We have two choices of rides on Monday, the morning ride will be an easy cruise along the Bruce Freeman Rail Trail and a trip through Great Brook Farm State Park. The afternoon ride will be a bit more challenging as we visit the scenic backroads of Carlisle.

We will meet at the Heart Pond parking lot in South Chelmsford. Here is a starting point map.

• The morning Recreation Ride will feature the new ($1,000,000 per mile) Bruce Freeman Rail Trail. We will also cruise over to Great Brook Farm State Park and ride past the cranberry bogs.

• The route is a little less than 14 miles long, a little over 200 feet vertical (easy), and there are only two noticeable hill on it. There is a short bit of old dirt road in GBFSP, but a road bike will work fine. Here is a route map.

We will have a picnic lunch at Heart Pond beach. We can get subs at Kate's Corner store or BYOL.

• The afternoon Recreation Ride will also visit Great Brook Farm State Park on our way to the scenic backroads of Carlisle.

• The route is a little over 14 miles long with almost 300 feet vertical (average). It is all on road. Here is a route map.

Here is the schedule:

• At 9:30 AM - The morning Recreation Ride will leave.
• At 11:30 AM - We will have a picnic lunch.
• At 12:30 PM - The afternoon Recreation Ride will leave.
• At 2:30 PM - We will be back.

Wednesday, May 4th - East Pepperell

This is a "new" ride that starts at East Pepperell Center, goes UP to Hollis Center, then DOWN to Nashua. Lunch / drinking will be at Martha's Exchange on Main Street. Then we will ride through Mine Falls Park on our way back to the Nashua River Rail Trail and back to Pepperell.

The route is a little over 27 miles with about 500 feet vertical (easy). Here is a route map.

Here is the schedule:

• At 9:30 AM - The Exploration Ride will leave.
• At 12:30 PM ish - We will have lunch.
• At 2:30 PM - We will be back.

Friday, May 6th - TBD

Hope to see you there,

Bill and Carole