Columbia County Gravel via Mt Riga & Mt Everett

MCC - Tuesday Edition

Pacheco Canyon Gravel Climb to the Santa Fe Ski Area (with Kathy)

3-in-1: Santa Fe Trail + Torquise Trail + SF Half Century Route (w/ Kathy)

Riding the Enchanted Circle with Kathy

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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Columbia County Gravel via Mt Riga & Mt Everett

MCC - Tuesday Edition

Pacheco Canyon Gravel Climb to the Santa Fe Ski Area (with Kathy)

3-in-1: Santa Fe Trail + Torquise Trail + SF Half Century Route (w/ Kathy)

Riding the Enchanted Circle with Kathy

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