Food eaten trailside is some of the most delicious around. For all I know, this sorbet normally tastes like citric acid-infused cardboard. But after a few hours of riding on a day like this, it may as well be ambrosia.

In contrast to last July, the Coppertone Farmington River is as low as I’ve ever seen it.

Not even the normally timid wildlife can be bothered to stir at my presence.

Stay cool.