Bogged down by biking? Not here

As if on cue, two loons glided across the surface of the northern New Hampshire bog pond in the spruce-fir forested conservation land. They hadn’t been waiting for us, a couple of gravel road spinning cyclists, but it sure looked that way. The pair skimmed along East Inlet in Pittsburg just a few miles shy of the closed United States-Canadian border, as we watched by a dam in silence.

Small 92-acre East Inlet and nearby 88-acre Scott Bog are part of the 25,000 acre Connecticut Lakes National Area owned and managed by New Hampshire Fish and Game under a conservation easement held by The Nature Conservancy.