Took off with Wil to meet up with some usual suspects at Little River State Park. Dirt road, trail, pavement, mud road, some single track. A true S24O as I returned to the car 22 hours after I left.
Down Governor Chittenden Rd. and across Johnnie Brook:
Things got muddy along the Winooski:
Met up with Greg in Waterbury and climbed to Little River State Park:
The reservoir and some more climbing on snow and ice:
Camp:
Tested out the new 0dF down sleeping bag – my feet were steaming when I woke up in the morning. I am close to having a gear range to go from 60s summer nights to low teens, zero degree winter nights. Temps got into the 30s overnight. The lean to blocked the wind and everyone was cozy:
Rolling out in the morning – we split up, and made our way to home / second breakfast and some nice riding:
Nice! I love all of the “road less traveled” riding options in our state.
Indeed!