We decided to bike the Mountain Division Trail yesterday because it was such a beautiful day.

I had a stomach bug that I couldn't seem to shake most of the weekend but was feeling better yesterday so biking the trail sounded like a good way to salvage the last day of the holiday weekend.

We set out on the trail from the Standish trailhead with plans to see if we could bike the entire length of the trail (which was posted on the kiosk as 4.7 miles from Standish to Windham).

The shady spots of the trail were great and the sunny parts required a couple of water breaks.

We had never biked (nor hiked or skiied) the full length of the trail so had not realized how many road crossings it had. There were four in total with all but one very quite roads.

This crossing had a lot more fast-moving traffic than the others.

After passing over the Presumpscot River, we got to thinking about our canoe and if we'd paddled down to this part of the river before. We all agreed that we hadn't .... yet.

On our way back to the Standish trailhead we ran in to some horses. We see a lot of horses in the Otter Ponds area when we're on this trail and the kids love it.

By the time we came to our favorite hill to cross country ski down, L. had to walk her bike up part of the way. The bike ride was about 10 miles round trip so everyone was entitled to be a little tired by the time we got to the last 1/2 mile.

We brought along our GPS unit to make a track of the trail since we're really enjoying everytrails.com (they really liked this trek of Namibia with the animals in it). But the GPS lost reception for about 1/2 mile so there's a portion of the trail missing on our map. We have plans to fix it this week but according to the readings on our GPS, we covered a little over 10 miles roundtrip. That was a record setting afternoon for mileage we've done on our bikes in a single day. The kids suggested we stick to our 4-mile roundtrips to the ice cream store near our house this week to recooperate.