{"id":1413,"date":"2011-09-11T22:26:44","date_gmt":"2011-09-12T02:26:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/?p=1413"},"modified":"2011-09-11T22:26:44","modified_gmt":"2011-09-12T02:26:44","slug":"lake-in-the-woods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/2011\/09\/11\/lake-in-the-woods\/","title":{"rendered":"Lake in the Woods"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Sunday of Labor Day weekend, I got another ride in, trying to avoid getting rained on.\u00a0 This time I went in a general easterly direction (as well as north).\u00a0 I went through towns I’ve ridden through in the past, but on some roads I hadn’t been on at all before.<\/p>\n

The ride started by heading east into Belchertown, by way of Bay Rd.\u00a0 When Bay neared its end, I cut over to US 202, and headed north up into Pelham.\u00a0 Both of those roads have some hill climbing, although nothing like the big hills I did the previous day.<\/p>\n

A little ways into Pelham, I left 202 on a road that sort of forked off on the left (called Shutesbury Rd. 2 on the map), and headed north on that into the town of Shutesbury.\u00a0 It’s a nice route to bike, as it doesn’t have all the ups and downs that 202 does to the north of Pelham.\u00a0 I stuck with that road until it ended at the main east-west road through Shutesbury (which is known there as Leverett Rd.).\u00a0 A quick block east of that was the town center, where they have this pillar showing the direction and distance to a few other places:<\/p>\n

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Here’s Shutesbury’s town hall:<\/p>\n

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which seems like it has some solar power:<\/p>\n

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At least, I assume those are solar panels – I didn’t go back there to check it out.<\/p>\n

I headed north from this point, on Wendell Rd. (so named because it heads toward the town of Wendell).\u00a0 This road ended up taking me downhill a bunch.\u00a0 I kept expecting to have to do a bunch more climbing, but it just kept going down, with minimal uphill bits.\u00a0 Eventually, I spotted a place that I had heard about, and seen signs for, but not been to in person.\u00a0 That is, Lake Wyola:<\/p>\n

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I only saw the lake from its west side, where it is rimmed by private homes (so I couldn’t get too close).\u00a0 The picture above really doesn’t do justice to how pretty a spot this is, with trees all around and that hill on the other side.\u00a0 I bet the houses that are right on the lake must cost a pretty penny.<\/p>\n

If one continues around to the north side of the lake, there is a state park, so I probably could have gotten closer to the water there, but I had intended to head back west at this point, and so I did.\u00a0 The road I used took me into the north part of the town of Leverett, and before too long I was at the Leverett Village Co-op, which I had visited by bike last year<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I took a rest there for a bit, had a snack, and then headed a bit further west, before turning south and passing through Leverett center.\u00a0 I also passed by the Peace Pagoda<\/a>, or at least, its sign and driveway.\u00a0 Nothing else can be seen from the road, so I didn’t take any pictures.\u00a0 I’ve heard that it is a pretty place, so maybe I’ll visit at some point (I believe it’s open to the public, though it may only be for special events).<\/p>\n

From there I headed into north Amherst, through the UMass campus, and back home.\u00a0 I was out for a bit less than 4 hours of riding, and covered 43 miles.\u00a0 My total for 2 days of riding was 100 miles, though of course that’s not the same as riding 100 in one day. I’m getting there, though.<\/p>\n

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