Posted: Oct 10, 2011 10:57 AM  (Msg. 1 of 7)

We had a perfect weekend up here weather wise so I took a couple rides one to NY on Sat and one in VT on Sun.
The NY ride included a ride to my favorite road in the NE, Tracy Road. I hadn't been there since the floods from Ireene. It wasn't too bad with just a couple of spots where they had washouts.
I then headed up to the high peaks area in the Adirondaks. There were a ton of cars parked along the route that were hiking. This is one of the most beautiful areas anywhere as far as I'm concered. I stopped to take a couple pics.



From there I went down into Keene where the floods were real bad but it was pretty much back to normal. I then traveled over to Elizebethtown to another of my favorite roads that had also got a lot of flood damage but it was open and fully repaired. It's called the Lincoln Pond road.


Sunday's ride was with the Combat Vets Motorcycle Assc.
We all met along the way up to northern VT where we stopped for a breakfast brunch. This is our usual place for meetings.
After breakfast we made our way through the mountains of VT  on some roads that I had never been on (there aren't many in VT) and these were some great roads with lots of nice twisty's. The sky was blue and it was a beautiful ride. We made our way down to the VT veterans cemetary where we placed some flowers on a brother's grave that just got his grave marker.
I split up from them there and headed back through the mountain passes towards home.
I stopped along the way to take a couple more pics
This one shows the power of water and what it can do to guardrails. Note how small this stream was before the flood and how it rolled the guardrails into a ball.

That whole section of road was washed out completely.
When I got to the top where you can look back at NH and see the White Mountains.

Cresting the top a picture of the Green Mountains.


From there it was a ride through one more mountain pass that many here have been on during the Braveheart in Lake George or the RK rally this year.

Posted: Oct 11, 2011 03:32 PM  (Msg. 3 of 7)

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Sat I went across at Crown Point NY to ny22 and 9n to CR 54 to CR 7 to to CR 8 to NY 9 north
to 73 to  9n back toward E town to Lincoln pond road. It is one circle.

I'll get back to you on Sundays route.

Posted: Oct 11, 2011 06:07 PM  (Msg. 5 of 7)

BTW - is the CP bridge open yet or did you have to take the ferry?

I will google your rt and check it out.  We did a similiar rt this summer.  Cept we went up NY74 @ Ticonderoga (coming down 22 from Plattsburgh) picked up NY 9 all the way thru New Russia and then ETown.  Great countryside and love those small towns, picked up I87 @ Keeseville back to PB.  We stayed on main roads cuz we don't know the area well enough.  But do have some riding friends in Peru and I bet he knows all those back roads.  He went HS in Peru and wored as a state cop until an injury washed him out!  He rides an M109!

Oh man - you really know those CRs   I have seen them on Google and have wished that I knew where they go.  I see you came in the back way to E-town.  I also see that Tracy Road you mentioned (CR6).  You say that is a nice road?  I hope to be back up there next summer and will try to schedule a ride on it.

Thanks for the info - it makes me want to come back again!

HD=MC ... a no brainer

Posted: Oct 13, 2011 06:08 AM  (Msg. 7 of 7)

It's amazing the difference a week can make. When I left for Georgia, the Northeast was experiencing its first real cold snap of the season ... Even snow in some locations (ask me how I know this ) ... The return trip north a week later was truly a colorful event. The foliage from Tennessee to the Canadian border was a true patchwork of the autumn color spectrum. Good pictures taken there Hunter  
Edited by Emu on Oct 13, 2011 at 06:10 AM