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. 

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