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This weekend we went to a little event by http://www.onthemarkarchery.com/. For both of us, this was the first venture into archery. While the arrows did actually have pointy tips, the only casualty of the day was one of the arrows, who tragically lost some feathers :)

On Sunday we join what seemed to be a big crowd of people walking up Mt Lafayette/Lincoln. Sore legs and a slight sunburn were the result. As an interesting side note, we a got a hint about a the quick weather changes in the whites. Going between winter gloves and sweaty t-shirt in the matter of hours.

Originally we wanted to go hike again this weekend, but the weather made that a bad idea. So we decided to go and check out a mtb park a couple of people had recommended to us. So here’s a little video of our first time at the Highland Mountain MTB Park.

393 mile(632km) trip to Mtl For this months’ traveling we decided to escape the chaos that usually unfolds around the 4th of July celebrations in the US (note, they’re celebrating independence day, i.e. #brexit1776). However, keeping true to our approach of not planning things too thoroughly, we of course failed to realize that our chosen escape area hosted its own set of chaos:

Canada150 day and the Montreal Jazz Festival.

On Saturday we made our way up to Montreal via the lovely VT-100 Scenic byway, stopping in Burlington and crossing into QC in Noyan/Alburgh.
(rainy and cloudy on the way up)

This weekend we decided to feed the mosquitos on and around South and North Kinsman a little bit. Beautiful woods and cascading brooks like this:

Almost made us forget the really humid and hot weather we had to wade through on our way up.

Venturing into off road territory was a little bit of an adventure for me. Battling the elements with 200 miles of riding in heavy rain, only to be followed by a couple of days in hot sun and dusty trails. Both physically and mentally challenging days make for a good sleep, even in a small tent.

[Nerdy intro, skip if you want: 1.8in (4.67cm) That’s the distance between the knobs on my new off road tires (scorpion rally II). At least on the front wheel. In the rear it’s slightly more. Incidentally this is leads to a whistle of a bout 440hz around 45 mph (~72 km/h). Since the rear wheel is slightly different, you end up with a dissonant whistle of slightly different frequencies when riding. So while I am making my way up to DirtDaze at Lake Luzerne, my bike is trying to summon Shadowfax (Gandalf uses a whistle like that to get his attention).]

On Sunday we finally took the plunge into the Charles. Well, not quite literally, as apparently the water quality is not quite something to rave about: http://www.crwa.org/field-science/water-quality-notification-data We made our way upwind from the Kendall kayak station to the one in Allston/Brighton (http://paddleboston.com/)

No turtles this time around though, maybe the water was too bad.