Welcome to Woodstock
No we're not talking about the historic music festival or the little bird that bedevils Snoopy in the Peanuts strip. This is Woodstock, Vermont. A seemingly more wealthy community in the central part of the state. We went to sleep expecting rain in the morning which it did. After a late breakfast, the sun began poking through so we headed out for a loop that would take us north over a ridge to West Hartford and then back through Pomfret. Leaving Woodstock we quickly ended up on a packed dirt road. Turns out that nearly a third of the roads in Vermont are like this. Seems to be a clay-like material that has some pot holes but is very ride-able for road bikes. Our Garmin seemed to seek these roads out including a few that led to dead ends. After the rain, more of the trees were semi leaf-less but still there was much color around. The climbs were stair-stepped with some steep sections but nothing like the Lincoln Gap ride of Monday. We had lunch in a local General Store and little traffic throughout the day. There's a video posted (hopefully) that captures the panorama at the top of the Pomfret climb. As usual, photos don't capture these well.
