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Thanks Darren for organizing this and giving me the chance to ride with VFTT. This ride was very meaningful for me this year. I just can't get over how powerful it is to be part of this and to ride with a great group of people who all share this road of sadness and pain, yet because of...

The Ride for Research is a moving experience: so emotionally charged. Looking at the web site, one sees many teams, mostly with names and mostly named after kids. Heart wrenching. Many teams ride with team shirts with kid's names and pictures on them, hundreds of kids wearing cotton tee shirts...

There have been several bear sightings in my town including one seen on my front porch, but I missed it. This about the last place I would ever expect to see one: it is 8 miles from the coast. My big fear is hitting one, or her cub, at night when riding on the bike...

Thanks everyone, between the weather forecast and traffic, I decided not to go.

How bad will be Rte 93 be on Sunday? I have never experienced it but have heard about it. We have a bike ride planned on Sunday and will be going by there at about 6-7-8 AM. I suspect that the return, somewhere around sunset, will be a nightmare, and am thinking about Rte 91. BTW...

Hi, The hikes listed above are all good, The North South Trail is just over the RI border also. Loops are possible in Burlingame and Carolina State management areas. http://outdoors.htmlplanet.com/nst/nstmap1.htm If you are interested in beach walking, there are...

Interesting. One of my cycling goals this year is to ride around the border of the state of Connecticut, My first leg, on Easter, I went from the RI/CT border (where I live) to Newtown,CT, and this summer I hope to ride a route that roughly goes along the state border. As for lists here is...

Darren: I'll be there, thanks for coordinating this. Barrys: Sorry you can't make it; I will miss riding with you guys this year. Chris, MichaelJ and SJ: Welcome to the team. It is a rewarding ride. Michael, I did the 50 on a mountain bike with knobbies, no problem. To everyone else who...

Year's Best" Meteor Shower Peaks Tonight" Brian Handwerk for National Geographic News Updated December 13, 2004 Attention skywatchers: Grab a lawn chair and bundle up, because what experts believe will be this year's best meteor shower peaks tonight. In the hours around midnight the Geminids...

What summits within the VFFT viewing area can be summited by bicycle? There is Washington, Greylock, Wachuestt, any others? How about Mansfield(VT), Bear Mt (NY) or Cadillac (ME)?

Tramper Al, Congratulations from here also. The only way I knew how to get a patch was to get one after doing all the section hikes on the annual N/S Trail trek/school bus thing. You get the patch at the end of the last section...

Hello, Here is a rough map of the area, same map you can get at kiosk. http://home.comcast.net/~otomola/map2000.html For a better, more detailed map, this map is tops: but it cost $$$ http://www.nynjtc.org/images/book-map/map-tac.gif This ain't just a...

Red Sox Parade RED SOX PARADE By some chance of fate or divine intervention, I had a conference (I never, never go to conferences) in Boston this weekend and otherwise I never would have ever gone there on a such a day to such an event. The Hotel where the conference took place was two blocks...

At some point in the last ten years, I came up with the notion of taking a trip up Greylock if the Red Sox ever won it all. Don't ask me why, perhaps spurred by such chatter on the highpointer's forum. I happened to have a school reunion in Lenox, MA, a few miles south, this afternoon-the day...

I have both hiked and biked this old RR bed; it goes both ways. As with anything, there are rude, selfish people in any activity; so, I say this: it ain't the mode, it's the person.

On July 3rd, a group of local cyclists is planning a bicycle trip from RI's low point(sea level) to the state's highpoint, Jerimoth Hill, which will have an open summit that day. 69 miles round trip. If anyone is interested vist the Narragansett Bay Wheelmen's website, NBWCLUB.ORG and push the...

There aren't too many peaks to bag in RI. Arcadia management area off of Rte 165 offers some nice hikes, an eight loop north off of 165 at Beach Pond is very pleasant. Mt Tom is wooded and you can easily miss it. An area south of 165 on the Mt Tom Trail has some open ledges with nice views...