Late Summer VT Bikepacking: Part 4 (Montpelier to Littleton)

Our final day of the bike trip took us across two states, and ended with mild disappointment. In retrospect, we'll call the Late Summer VT Bikepacking a success, but the Later Summer NH Rail Trail Riding an abject failure. Our final day of riding began around 7, despite our early bedtime. We rose to a crisp 50ish degree bone-dry dew-free morning, just the right amount of morning sun streaming through the trees and plants uphill of us. a crisp vermont morning We packed up the tent, brushed our teeth, split a cereal bar, and headed out towards the East Calais general store for breakfast -- just 20 miles of pointy dirt road and class IV road riding away. But we're not complaining: the views were breathtaking, the traffic was as light as could be, the sky was a perfect deep alpine blue, and the sun was out. views even better at the top of the hill zoom out Once we crested the hill, we journeyed through a number of valleys up on the plateau, weaving through thick, dense forests, the…