GrNY SGS: Cold Spring (all the trails and all the climbs)

Berkshires Bliss - once I escaped the school of hard Knox (Expedition)!

GrNY SGS#4: Pawling, NY

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Our goal was to ride all the dirt roads in Westchester County that could be connected without too much pavement in between.  We wanted this to be a gravel ride after all.  

** We almost succeeded, but apparently we missed the northernmost loop!  **  I was wondering why we came up about 4 miles short.  I figured there was an overlap in some section of the route (i.e. hidden extra mileage that wasn't real).  Sadly, that's not the case.  I guess we'll need to try it again, ha ha!

Here's the full route, including the northern part we somehow missed: 


Here's my original ride report:
Great ride with great company on a day that seemed too nice to possibly be this late in October! Thanks for joining me on this silly mission!  And sorry about that mechanical Steve D🇺🇸 !

A bit of background:
- We did an "All the Dirt Roads in Westchester" ride in 2021.  We probably covered ~95% of the reasonably connectable dirt roads in the county in about 100 miles and 10,000 ft climbing.  It was a crazy, spaghetti-like route!
- This updated route condenses the footprint of the ride to make it more dirt-heavy (>50% gravel) at the expense of losing a few dirt road segments.  You should still expect a bit of routing insanity! (loops, out-and-backs, etc).  Caveats: Short dead end streets, isolated road sections, and some small pieces of longer roads were skipped to make the route a little less crazy and to keep the proportion of dirt very high. 

Skipped dirt road segments include:
- Boway/Woodway and Boutonville/Dingee roads: Requires a pretty big pavement-heavy loop for minimal increase in dirt road coverage.
- Black Spring/Black Brook: Tiny segments of dirt that add too much pavement.
- Millertown Rd: Only a tiny segment is still dirt, since half of it has been paved.
- Byram Lake/Oregon Rd: Too isolated. Requires too much paved riding to get there and back.
- Various small pieces of longer dirt roads: In other words, you'll visit most of a given dirt road on this route, but might skip a small segment to make the route connect more readily with other dirt roads.

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GrNY: Almost all the dirt roads in Westchester (crap - we missed a section!)

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GrNY SGS: Cold Spring (all the trails and all the climbs)

Berkshires Bliss - once I escaped the school of hard Knox (Expedition)!

GrNY SGS#4: Pawling, NY

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