End of October

 72 today! Road bike to Kill Kare state park. Nice near summer weather this week. Still a few leaves in the trees but mostly on the ground at this point.

Bike ride stats for this season: 57 rides, 149 hours, 1988 miles. 

Mansfield

 Sunny and about 50. Perfect Fall weather.

Rock garden-> Frost -> top -> Adams Apple -> Wampahufus 

Missisquoi Valley rail trail starting in St Albans:

Missisquoi National Wildlife refuge

 There are four trail areas at the Missisquoi refuge. I went to three. The first was the Black Creek and Maquam Creek trails. This is a loop mostly along the river. Nice trail and like all these trails it would probably be a good place to go in the Spring. The jeep trail goes along the Missisquoi river. This is a longer trail that also goes through some interesting woods and marsh. Finally I went on the loop at the visitors center. Short loop, 1 mile, lots of board walks. Saw various ducks during the day and small birds. Stopped by Alburgh Dunes State park in way back.

The next day at Niquette Bay State park:

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