OK folks, the routes are set! Oh geeze, this is going to be a great 2 days of riding!!
Day 1 - NH Whites:
The route hasn't changed much from my original plans.
We'll start out from the Fireside Inn,
kickstands up on Saturday at 9AM !! (so, if you are coming in Friday night, be sure to get down for their great breakfast early ) heading north up Rte 10 through Hanover, NH and through the campus of Dartmouth University. It's kind'a pretty early on a summer weekend. Then, after a little dirt road shortcut, we'll cut across Rte 25A to Rte 118 through the western mountains to Lincoln. We'll go across the Kankamagus Pass and then up through Bear Notch to Carter Notch. Lunch is planned at Fabyan's Station in Bretton Woods.
From there we'll ride up along Rt 302 to Twin Mountain, there jump on Rte 3 south, down through Franconia Notch State Park and all the way back down to Lincoln. There we'll take Rte 175 south along the Pemigewasset river to Plymouth. From Plymouth, we head west on Rt 25 to Rumney, and there hook up with the lower section of Rte 118 on down to Canaan. Rte 4 west for a while and then a short sprint on the Interstate I89 back to the Fireside Inn.
Stats:
200 miles, 5:29 estimated riding time (plus stops)
Day 2 - VT Greens:
This looks to be a great day planned out by snikr.
After a hearty breakfast, we'll (again)
head out at 9AM. We'll take a short run up I89 to Rte 4 west (nice sweepers) to Woodstock, get on Rte 106 to Downers, Rte 131 to Ludlow, and jump on Rt 100 down to Londonderry (VT). Then ride Rt 11 over to Manchester (VT). We'll stop there and stock up on sammiches and drinks at Zoey's Deli for eating later, so try to leave a little room in one of your cases. From there we'll go Rt 30 to Rte 315, to Rt 153 in Rupert. There we'll take a SSS (super secret snikr) road back to rte 30. Along the way well be stopping at the Lake St Catherine State Park and having those sammiches in the picnic area overlooking the lake. After lunch we head up Rt 30 to Rt 73 over into Brandon.
At that point we'll stop and make a decision as to who wants to take the long way home, and who wants to take the "shortcut", shown in pink in the above picture. If some folks that have longer rides home want to take the shortcut we can potentially break into two groups. We'll play it by ear...
The longer way goes up rt 7 to Middlebury to Rte 116, which hooks up with the Vermont mini-dragon, Rt 17, over the App Gap. This comes out to Rt 100 south to Rochester. The short cut runs straight across Rt 73 from Bradon to Rochester. Both routes continue to Rt 12 over Bethel mountain to Rt 14 all the way back to West Lebanon NH and the hotel.
Stats:
Long route 250 miles, estimated 6:22 riding time (plus stops)
Short route 200 miles, estimated 5:13 riding time (plus stops)
GPS Files:
All three GPS routes (NH Whites, VT Greens (Long) and (Short)) are in both of these files, just pick the format that you can use. (Right click, save as, etc., etc):
2009 NH Whites & Greens.gdb (in Garmin DataBase Ver 3 format)
2009 NH Whites & Greens.gpx (in GPS eXchange format)
If anyone wants me to save and post these files in some other format for their particular GPS, just let me know.
Everybody be sure to bring lots of rain gear (so we won't need it) and cameras (because you
will need them)
I'm really looking forward to this ride. Can't wait!! :yahoo:
