A group of Northampton High School students and staff cycles up Audubon Road in Leeds on Thursday morning. From left are sophomores Ben O’Connor, Alex Sirois, Ari Daube-Valois, Desmond Carnevale-Hexdall, Jack Mattison, David Wheat (obscured), physics teacher Matt Heaney, sophomore Ava Medaugh and math teacher Beth Adams. Not pictured are NHS math teacher Brant Jones and ESP Jason Lukasiewicz.
A group of Northampton High School students and staff cycles up Audubon Road in Leeds on Thursday morning. From left are sophomores Ben O’Connor, Alex Sirois, Ari Daube-Valois, Desmond Carnevale-Hexdall, Jack Mattison, David Wheat (obscured), physics teacher Matt Heaney, sophomore Ava Medaugh and math teacher Beth Adams. Not pictured are NHS math teacher Brant Jones and ESP Jason Lukasiewicz. Credit: —STAFF PHOTO/KEVIN GUTTING

NORTHAMPTON – A group of seven Northampton High School students and four staff embarked on a four-day bike/camping tour of Western Massachusetts on Thursday, June 9, 2022. According to NHS math teacher and event organizer Brant Jones, the approximately 120-mile tour through four counties was devised as an introduction to self-contained bike touring for the students.

Kevin Gutting can be reached at kgutting@gazettenet.com.