great weather, three great rides

Today I was faced with a very difficult decision; where to ride, my choices were earl's trails, bachelor street, mount tom and wendell...god life is rough.
I decided to do a pretty epic day of riding, and not force myself to choose. After class I headed to bachelor street for my first ride of the day, and had a great ride save for a flat tire (I can't wait to get the edge wheels set up tubeless) and some bugs. After bachelor street I went over to earl's trails for another hour of ride time. While at earl's trails my brakes were really getting annoying, so after checking them out I saw that the pads were worn all the way to the metal, that explains the noise! When I finished my ride at earl's trails I gave Mickey a call to find out how long my brake pads should be lasting, and to order up some new ones. After talking with Mickey, I headed over to Spooky bikes to drop off my bike, change some stickers, and to pick up Carl's bike so I could ride that and get a feeling for how it rides compared to my bike. While I was there I recruited Jake to ride with the Bob Crew in Wendell.
After I left Mickey's I went home to clean up the bike for Wendell later. From the driveway testing I noticed that the 6061 darkside was a lot like the mustang, quick, short, and very snappy. Dad and I headed up to Wendell at 6 to meet the crew at 6:20 at the ranger's station. When we got to the parking lot there were quite a few people there getting ready to ride including Jake, Stef, Shizna, Jason, Jamal, Mitch, Malley, and others. After I got my riding stuff on, Bob drove in and got everybody gathered up and told us the plan.
When we left the parking lot dad and I took most of the group out to the pond loop to start our ride, then to maple leaf, bob is fat, and then the main event....Mormon hollow. Mormon hollow since it was completed last year has been almost unbearable to ride, and very punishing. Somehow over the winter the trail transformed into one of the most fun trails in western mass! When we reached the bottom of Mormon hollow Jake, Jason, and I waited for the rest of the group and decided that we were going to climb Hannah Swarton, and then do Moose tracks, and the M&M for the second half of our ride.
We got back to the parking lot just as it was getting dark, what a great first wendell ride of the season!!!