Tour of New England - S3 - Middlebury, VT 4 3/4 gap ride and some slick sticky steep dirt putting BK to shame...

3rd day riding. Plans were big initially. Passing the #1 Middlebury Gap and continuing along the valley and to #2 Lincoln Gap. Checking out the Covered bridge to start the 2nd climb... noting a sign "closed" -- but let's see what we find.

 

After a easy ride up a little slick dirt section to the bottom of the famous final mile of the steep Lincoln Gap road climb, well -- that's what we found -- dead end. Revising route plans and returning from a part gap climb... heading over Roxbury Gap as #2 -- this gap features some dirt climbing and descending, this time a little soggy wet to add some fun -- continuing North, lunch, returning back to 100 via Cox Brook -- a beauty of climb and road, just turning into soggy sticky dirt for a couple of miles again, then heading back on 100 towards Warren to find the final Gap #4 for the day taking Appalachian gap to Bristol -- coffee stop before rolling back "home".

 compare to June 2008, Robin and Py on Roxbury Gap.