Lunchtime ride on the Minuteman out to Depot Park, Bedford. The temperature rose eight degrees in the course of the ride, to 48, nearly thirty degrees warmer than the coldest of last night's ride. Another thaw is in progress, and last night's rutted ice sheet is today's puddle. The water is rising in Tophet Swamp.
With all that heat transfer comes wind, in gusts that snapped flags, sounded in treetops, and got in my face. Once again I was impressed with the sheer number of fallen trees that have accumulated in the woody margins of the Trail due to the storms of the last few years, a sort of visual integral of the material effects at a very local scale of energetic changes at a very large scale.
The Minuteman is clear from Arlington Center to Depot Park.
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