Getting those climbing legs!

Those of us who showed up for a flat Sunday ride decided against being miserable in the very windy flats and instead to be miserable in the steep canyons! Here you can see our little group attacking the climb to Jamestown (hee hee, they didn't know I was taking pictures!).
Jamestown did not provide enough epicness so we went on to Super James. A few folks turned around at the top due to time constraints, but some of us wanted more punishment!
If you zoom in here, I'm pretty sure you can see Rachel saying "hills suck!" and Kristen swearing there are no more after this last climb... wait, there's another one?!?
And we learned that Kristen has some real skills on those downhill sections!

Todays ride

Here are some pictures of my ride today from Northampton to Goshen, MA. 40 miles.

I think this is a Maple tree and they are getting the sap to make maple syrup. There are a lot of 'sugar shacks' around where they process the sap and sell the syrup. I passed a couple and all this black smoke was coming out of the chimmneys. Vermont is pretty close and it seems all the maple syrup is from Vermont in the stores. I have gone through about 4 bottles in the past 2 months. Good stuff.

Here is a house that was really old. They like to put dates on everything around here. Bridges and houses and stuff. This house was from 1788 - I know, it really wasnt the house number :) 220 years old! I bet its haunted.

And here is a self portrait while riding. Nice day.

Haley