Day ten, the green mountains of vermont.

The plan for day ten was to start off with a one hour ferry ride across Lake Champlain, a circuit to Lake Placid and Saranac Lake in NY state, before heading south and back into Vermont to Rutland. The weather forecast for that area and in fact Vermont, looked ominous for rain coming in early afternoon, and heavy rain at that. We came up with a Plan B, thinking a 400 km ride with heavy afternoon rain would be unpleasant for our aging bones. We opted to skip to the following days ride which was really just below Montpelier anyway.

We headed down the VT100 to Waitsfield then took the 17 west to go over Appalachian Gap, in the Green Mountains National Forest. This is absolutely the finest set of nice tight Twisties we have ridden to date, would do it again in a heartbeat. Perfect for the adventure bikes, would not be so flash on a Harley as you would be scrapping chrome on every corner. Down off Appalachian Gap, we turned toward Lincoln at Bristol then over Lincoln Gap to Warren.( The gravel pic is on Lincoln Gap road)

Right on the 100 south to a coffee stop at Hancock (that last pic is a photo down the Main Street of Hancock, taken from the old Hancock Hotel where we had coffee) before climbing over Middlebury Gap to Ripton. Due to horrendous amounts of road works on the Western edge of the Green Mountains and in particular on the 7 south, we took the advice of some locals, turned south on Upper Plains Road, snuck around Route 53, the Lake Dunmore road, which was just gorgeous.

Again to avoid a shitload of roadworks in the Brandon area, we took the long way to Rutland by going up the 73 over Brandon Gap to Rochester, south on the 100 then took the 4 over Sherburne Pass toward Rutland.

Murphy’s law, by this time its only 12.30 but the heavens opened from the west, we had seen it coming for a while, donned the wet weather gear and it pissed down cats and dogs as we rode over the Sherburne Pass into Rutland.

All in all, a great days ride, the best Twisties yet, I would rate the Green Mountains of Vermont waaay ahead of the White Mountains of New Hampshire in terms of Twisties for the adventure bike riders.. The White Mountains in NH, gentler curves would suit the Harley bagger boys more so than the Mountains here in Vermont.

Moving right along, now in terms of posted pics, my trip book map was not quite right for today and the REVER app had an operator error as usual with me re- booting the phone, so our route today is both the map pics below joined together. I would have to highly recommend this trip to any rider anywhere near Vermont in his or her travels, maybe ignor this post if you ride a Harley bagger or simply ride it slow and careful. This is a great part of the US for motorcycling as we have found over the past few days.