Parcel 5 Mountain Biking

I’ve been biking around Hanover a lot these days – it’s a great and quick way to get around, and it’s especially fun since it’s been just so nice out lately.  Sometime recently I decided I should take this to the next level and went for a short mountain bike ride.  I used to bike a lot when I was much younger, but for any number of reasons I haven’t biked much in the past few years.  Well, the first time I recently went, it was a blast.  I knew that the place I was biking around, the Parcel 5 trail in Norwich, had some more trails running around and through it, but it was late in the day the first time I was biking through there, so I didn’t have a chance to explore at that time.  Upon coming back for another bike ride, I found some really neat spots.  Here’s a bit of what I found:

Part of the trail right before the high point.

Quite the sea of ferns.

A beautiful trail.

And a great bench to take a break at.  It was a bit buggy though.

And a gorgeous meadow with a narrow single track running through it.  Beautiful.

Man, this mountain biking thing is fun!  Now I see why all the skiers are big mountain bikers.  Now, I’m just curious as to why it’s been so long since I’ve done this.