Mountain Biking / Exploring The Bicentennial Trail (Amherst NH)

Today I decided to go out mountain biking on a fairly short trail known as the Bicentennial Trail near my house. The first thing I noticed was that there were many small leaves on the trees, especially on the beech trees, and also leaves now growing on many small bushes and shrubs. A lot of the trail was up hill, and a bit hard to ride on, especially on the cheap mountain bike I was riding today, so I ended having to walk the bike for parts of it, but that gave me more time to enjoy and look at the scenery. I ended up stopping at a rather large cliff to explore around. I walked to the bottom of the cliff, and noticed that the side of it had a rather large cave that seemed to be used as shelter for some of the wildlife, based on the porcupine droppings I noticed inside of it. I then continued biking, and had to bike through a granite boulder field, that was most likely deposited there during the last ice age. I continued riding, and as the elevation changed, I found myself in rather flat land, rather than the rocky rough land I was on before. Though perhaps this land was plowed in the past when it was a farm, as I noticed an old stone foundation, many stone walls, and even the remnants of an old car. Unfortunately though, some of this land has been logged in recent years, and part of the woods are rather depressing with debris from logging and torn up stumps and logs everywhere. Unfortunately, the town allows logging on this land with a permit, so there is always a risk of machinery coming in and causing havoc in portions of land along the trail. Luckily though, so far, only small portions of this land has been logged, though I really hope no more logging occurs in the future. Though not very far from my house, I definitely enjoyed getting out and biking around on this trail, as it has many beautiful views this time of year.

The rather large granite cliff on the trail. It's hard to tell how big it is from this photo, but if you click on it, you can see my bike sitting on top of it.

The remnants of an old rusty car that is being reclaimed by nature.

Some granite that was likely deposited during the last ice age

Some rather young pine trees growing in what was once farmland.