Ever gone back to an old familiar place and found it had changed over time? Some of it was the same, but there was something new going on, too. That’s the feeling I had when I visited Bartlett’s Thorne Pond Conservation area on Tuesday. I recognized old trails but found new ones that made riding there more interesting.

My curiosity about Thorne Pond was tweaked by two events — a conversation with Sun and Ski’s Dave Chandler and news of a race being held there on June 26 as part of the Red Jersey Cyclery’s Summer Race Series. Dave told me he had been riding there lately and liked Jeremiah Beach’s new single-track trails. When I heard Jeremiah had used these trails for the “Howler” mountain bike race last fall and would be using them again for one of his summer race series, I figured I needed to check them out.

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