, glad I was able to be helpful! That's the thing, you can do something 100 times and on the 101st find out something new. We can poke around and slowly discover all these new routes ourselves, or we can learn them from someone who has already discovered them. That's why I think today's mapping tools are so fantastic: from simply following individual athletes, to the Strava heat map and fly-bys, there's a lot you can learn if you know where and what to look for. Which brings me to this morning's ride: a dirt loop through Lincoln and Concord on parts of the BCT, accessible via the Minuteman NP and made possible by this curious connector I spotted on the Heat Map:
So I went to check it out.
Lovely long shadows on the Minuteman
A somewhat rare occurrence
Those signs are waaay bigger than they seem
Why, yes, there IS a tunnel under RT2 here!
It brings you to the Hapgood Wright forest, which is quite lovely. "This is some nice riding over here," I thought - and as soon as that, the path turned into a rooty washboard. So the BCT goes.
A less rare occurrence around these parts.
17 miles overall, but I forget just how much slower and how much harder single/double track riding can get.
Bonus: an unexpected surprise from looking at the Strava fly-by, looks like I passed within a few miles of
Ghazmh who went on a nice 34mi ride this am
Here's the full loop:
