Late Summer VT Bikepacking: Part 1 (Saint Johnsbury to Greensboro)

This year, we decided to move our typical fall foliage bike tour up to late summer, to better enjoy some perfect weather, swimming holes, and sun. Because New Hampshire's bicycle infrastructure is woefully inferior to Vermont's (more on that later in this series), we decided to start in the nearest Vermont population center: Saint Johnsbury, a 20 minute drive from the Littleton Lambda Latitudinarian Headquarters. Some local friends volunteered to drop us off there in exchange for a delicious breakfast at The Buttery. But we secretly got the better end of the deal, since they loaned us a highly valuable USB-C cable that we conveniently forgot to bring with us. Tricksy shirefolk. Anyway, our first day was a whopper: over 50 miles of biking on 90% dirt roads, over a solid mile of climbing, a couple of potential swimming holes, one delicious pizza stop, and a campsite destination with a reputation for stellar starviewing, cute animals, and crispy mornings. What more could we want? The day…