Phoo
Observer
I'll start by noting how fortunate I am to have such gullible friends. These adventures always starts as a thinly veiled invitation to suffer.
Sure guys! I'm insisting you follow me into the wilderness for a pleasant weekend of enlightenment through austerity.
Something like that. For a while, it was ultra-endurance racing, then onto ski mountaineering. Now begins the age off road bicycle touring (or so I've declared).
But this time it'll be different. Cuz there'll be beer. Y'all like beer! Right? It's gonna be great. Trust me.
As most of my usual crew is fairly novice at this, I picked something easy-ish and not too committing. Borrowed from bikpacking.com, the Green Mountain Gravel Growler (link) is a 250 mile loop through some back roads and trails of Vermont, passing by about a dozen iconic New England breweries.
Day 1:
Launching from Burlington, VT. Fresh, clean and full of hope.
The asphalt soon ends,
and the fun begins.
The lunch stop was at Prohibition Pig, about halfway through a long, 70 mile day.
The trails going into and out of Little River State Park were a little on the chunky side, so unfortunately, the camera went back into the bag for a while.
Sure guys! I'm insisting you follow me into the wilderness for a pleasant weekend of enlightenment through austerity.
Something like that. For a while, it was ultra-endurance racing, then onto ski mountaineering. Now begins the age off road bicycle touring (or so I've declared).
But this time it'll be different. Cuz there'll be beer. Y'all like beer! Right? It's gonna be great. Trust me.
As most of my usual crew is fairly novice at this, I picked something easy-ish and not too committing. Borrowed from bikpacking.com, the Green Mountain Gravel Growler (link) is a 250 mile loop through some back roads and trails of Vermont, passing by about a dozen iconic New England breweries.
Day 1:
Launching from Burlington, VT. Fresh, clean and full of hope.
The asphalt soon ends,
and the fun begins.
The lunch stop was at Prohibition Pig, about halfway through a long, 70 mile day.
The trails going into and out of Little River State Park were a little on the chunky side, so unfortunately, the camera went back into the bag for a while.