After finishing Clark Road, it’s a right turn onto Brown’s Gap Rd for about 3 miles of pavement before the next
secteur of gravel, Fox Mountain Rd. This is the first real climb of the day, about 2 miles or so worth and is supposed to be the second hardest one of the day. The sensations, as the racers say, are good today and other than the rough gravel doesn’t take much out of me. This is a pic at the summit.
The gravel was brutal today. Best time around here is probably January, when rain and snow have washed most of the rough stuff away. Spring is when they put the new gravel down, and almost all of my gravel riding today was on fresh, rough stuff. Probably the roughest continuos gravel riding I’ve done; kind of thinking bar end shifters would have been nice. This is a rest stop I took at a place where you can see they put fresh gravel down. This was not the worst out there though!
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