Day eight, the white mountains of new hampshire

Great days riding today, first up we had about 120 kms to ride west out of Maine to get to the White Mountains circuit, a rather depressed area of Maine to be fair, the wee town of Mexico, Maine……..tragic place really.

Arriving at the start of the Evans Notch road, we entered White Mountain National Forest on a narrow road to the summit, fully enclosed with trees, neat riding, over Evans notch and down the other side for a coffee stop before heading west through Conway. We turned east onto the Kancamagus Highway, highly rated in these parts by the motorcycling fraternity. It was a nice climb with gentle sweepers, let’s just say if he locals talk this up as great motorcycling country, we are soooooo lucky in NZ with our great motorcycling COUNTRY. To be fair, there were more motorcycles on the Kancamagus than cars.

Lunch in a rest area at the top and down the other side of the Kancamagus we headed north now on the Franconia notch parkway, we assume at some stage on this road we past Franconia notch, maybe where the crowded visitor center was? Nice road though. Next we swung east and south and rode through Crawford Notch State Park, slowed down by a couple of armchair Harley’s nannering along a bit slow on a no passing area. Dickheads!!!!

A wee break and then headed north over Pinkham notch on Route 16, before being relieved of $26 US to ride up Mt Washington auto road. This was an 8 mile climb up a narrow mountain road to a tourist trap shop thingie at the top. Sits at about 6500 feet. Worth the ride but thieving bastardios.

back down off Mt Washington and into Gorham to our accommodation ……….not up to the standard of the Comfort the night before.

360 kms of very nice riding today, none the less.