Category: Surly Karate Monkey
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Dirty Burton Loop
Board’s gone. Used to be a board here to cross the stream. Has been there for years. It was a strip of tree that was rounded on the bottom (live) and the top was cut flat, like it was an off-cut from a sawmill. It laid across this spot, seems like, forever, curved side down.…
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Outdoor Cycle KM042923.95
There is a section of the Lincoln Trail on the south-side in Fredericton by the airport that I call The Forest of Fredrenberg after the famous Forest of Arenberg sector in the single-day classic, Paris-Roubaix. Also known as the Trench of Arenberg, it is a legendary section of ‘road’ in cycling. “Officially, the 2,300 meters of…
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Hitched
“When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.” –John Muir
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Visit
I have been coming to this spot on this river for over 15 years, sometimes as regular as once a week. Several years ago the property changed hands and the new owner put up signs and a gate to keep people out. I tried to respect this, telling myself if I had a large tract…
