Skipped out on local rides for a while to do about 110 miles over 3 days in the Catskills/Hudson Valley area. Did 44 miles on Monday starting with the Catskills scenic trail leaving Bloomburg and heading through Grand Gorge. Actually had to stop at Grand Gorge since it was hot/humid enough to not want to ride the road and in the sun for any great length. Although I know further along 30 towards Roxbury the trail has been done where it continues from in Grand Gorge has not been and the ties all sit above the surface which was muddy and unmowed as far as I could see so we dropped into Grand Gorge for drinks and headed back.

Day 2 we did Ahsokan reservoir which is a 24.5 mile round trip, this has some really nice scenery and was good smooth, well maintained gravel. They really need to expand this.

Day 3 was the Walkill Valley rail trail; since we stayed in Kingston the night before we started there rather then at the other end was alltrails recommended and I'm so glad we did. 21.2 miles each way but the last 3 miles isn't worth the trip, turns into a very narrow, tire width trail with large rocks, and nothing but cows at the end. Although the humidity was awful, near Kingston the trail runs through some old caves from limestone quarrying and the temp in spots was down to 55 degrees, ended up camping out at one of these for a good 10 minutes as I was feeling the 36 miles to that point with the heat and humidity. Really nice trail overall and we'll bring the kids here in the fall when its cooler and get in a 35 mile ride with them.