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Skelly's Excellent Adventure

Town
Enfield, NH
Map
Description

Start/Finish at Carpenter's Cup Coffee next to the Rail Trail in Enfield, NH

Enfield, Grafton, Danbury, Canaan dirt with some (excellent) adventure class VI sections.

DHMC Great Hollow Sunset RT

Location
Town
Lebanon, NH
Map
Description

Short and sweet! Leaving from the hospital main parking lot, we’ll cruise down to Route 120 and head up Greensboro Road.  Right at the stop sign onto Great Hollow (Old Etna Road) then Labombard to Heater Road.  Left at the end onto Bank Street Extension, then we head up the bottom of Hardy Hill to a right turn onto Sunset Rock Road. A very short stint on Route 4 leads us to the entrance of the Northern Rail Trail at Mill Road.  We’ll take the rail trail back into downtown Lebanon, exiting by the CCBA.

Ames - Bradley Hill

Location
Town
Norwich
Map
Description

Up Bragg Hill and Beaver Meadow to Downer and the trail to Aldrich Farm.  Cross to Brook to Ames and the Class 4 descent to Carpenter.  Into South Strafford, Mine to New Boston.  Ladeau to the Bradley Hill trail, then Bradley Hill road to the Union Village road and home.

Moose - Goose -3 Mile from Costello 2

Town
Etna, NH
Map
Description

Up Ruddsboro and dirt King, down Laramie.  Cross to Jenkins and Sunset Rock.  Jog up 4 and get on the rail trail.  Around Mascoma lake to Enfield, then Maple to Goss to Tunis to Wolfeboro. Goose Pond to Baker Hill, then Thompson to 3 Mile to Old dana and Ruddsboro home.

Oak Hill - Dogford - Greensboro - Rip

Location
Town
Hanover
Map
Description

Starting at Oak Hill, up Reservoir to Grasse to Trescott.  Down Partridge to Etna Road and up to Hanover Center to upper Dogford Road.  Dogford down, back to Etna Road to Greensboro.  Right onto Rt 120/Lebanon Street then right at East Wheelock, up to Rip Road and back to the start.

Small amount of gravel on Reservoir and Partridge. Regroups at end of Partridge and end of Dogford, then again at Greensboro/Rt 120.

UPDATE SMGR 8/29 Central VT, reverse, avoid CCC closure

Location
Town
Bridgewater VT
Map
Description

Start/Finish at Bridgewater Park
Long climb up Curtis Hollow Rd and down Long Hill Class IV, 
Reading spring water stop at mile 10
Class IV jughandle off Nelson Rd at mile 18
Class IV singletrack jaunt around Echo/Amherst Lakes mile 23-28
Class IV catamount trail connector mile 31-33
Detour south of closed CCC includes some class IV on Round Top Road around mile 40
Chloe's market in Plymouth mile 43
Final climb and then beautiful gravel descent of Hale Hollow to finish.