Mont-Saint-Martin

I ticked off another of my season goals today: ride up Mont-Saint-Martin from the Rue Bach/Rafour intersection to the town limit sign in under 30 minutes... it was only a little under than but I am happy. Once at the top, I rode the little loop once, and then further up the fire trail for a while. It is very steep and with a lot of leaves but lovely. I descended to the town and took a few pictures, and as I was taking the last one an old woman walked up to me to see what I was doing, and we started talking about how "magnifique" it all looked at this time of day. She told me that there was snow in the trees in town yesterday, and told me to be careful descending, as apparently several cyclists have run into cars this year. I never descend very quickly on Mont-Saint-Martin because it's so damn steep, but I took it especially slowly today.