on dec. 21, 2015, stephen and i decided to ride from sun-up to sun-down, about 9hrs in length, on the shortest day of the year. no distance goal, no real plan, just a photocopied page from the maine gazetteer, and a desire to explore. oh yeah, and the knowledge that there was a wind farm somewhere out here. we found it, along with mud, moose tracks, mud, a lot of dump trucks, more mud, and some of the most interesting riding we'd ever done. read on..