Today was as good as it gets!!! Fantastic riding over ridge after ridge after ridge of the Alleghenies all day. Pretty little farms and villages, quiet roads with trees for shade, fog in the valleys in the morning. Some roads were just tunnels through the trees.
As everywhere in the east, impressive court houses in little county seats.
I counted 9 ridges that we climbed over for a total of about 10,400 feet of climbing. Kinda like doing hill repeats on Flagstaff - 9 times.
Some of the folks were pretty tired, but if you didn't hammer every climb it was a very pleasant day - exceptional riding.
Warm, but not as humid as it has been.
4 foot rattlesnake crossing the road. Pretty cool. He even rattled for me.
Couldn't find much interesting about Harrisonburg except that Janet Reno called it "the methamphetamine capitol of the East."
We are now in our last state.
Went through Seneca Rocks. Jean and I were there to climb in the 70's when the village consisted of one old general store that still had a phone that you cranked to get an operator, and give a phone number verbally. The town has tripled in size: 3 buildings now. The old store is gussied up and painted. There's a newer "family" restaurant. And, across the street is a climbing guide operation with a huge outdoor climbing wall (for training, I presume) and a yuppie coffee shop!
7.9 hours, 171 km (106 mile), 99 pulse av., 13.5 mph av,
10400 feet climbing.
That final photo is stunning. Way to make it through the big elevation gain days! Enjoy the next few rides.
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