On vacation in 2005, we stayed at Smugglers Inn. I pedaled my Trek Navigator over the Notch and then down into Stowe, and then another day down to the trail along the Lamoille River. Beautiful in the Summer. I rode the bike as well on the snowshoe paths, but man was that tough work! Nice pictures!
On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 1:03 PM, Michael Hechmer <mhech...@gmail.com> wrote: > One of my long time rides takes me up to Smugglers Notch. I've done this > 45 mile ride from my home pretty much once a year for the past thirty years > and one of my life goals is to do it for my 70th birthday, 15 months from > now. The climb has 1800 feet of climbing in a 9 mile stretch, but 1000 > feet of that comes in the last 3 miles of steady 7-10%, and most of the > rest in the first mile. I'm about 25% slower now than I was at the turn of > the millennium and this time I had to walk up the 75-100 meters of 20%+ > grade, but I made it, and am feeling pretty good about that, even though it > seems clear I will need to loose 20 lbs if I want to ride up non stop a > year from now.. Ms Saluki is quite comfortable going back down at 45 mph. > > https://www.icloud.com/photostream/#A2Grq0zwGOWHQK > > It's hard to see altitude! > > Michael > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
