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Please pre-register for this event so we have an idea what to plan for. Go to http://www.nysoc.com/ click on 'sign up now' for the October 13th event, then click on 'sign-up' More info on the old Ellenville Hill Climb here: http://com4.runboard.com/bamecmessageboard.f1.t28004
After our last stop on the Hill Climb road, we will proceed to New Paltz NY via
some very narrow and twisty roads for lunch at the Gilded Otter Restaurant and
brewery: http://www.gildedotter.com/home.htm
Total drive time: approximately 2 hours 15 minutes.
Total miles: 69
Total number of micro-brews available at the Gilded Otter: 8
As always, non-VSCNA members and their families are welcome.You don't even need a Saab! Please remember you never need an invitation to attend a VSCNA event, so bring along some friends and enjoy the drive.
We will divide into two groups, one "slower and scenic" and one faster.... Please bring FRS radios if you have them! Arrive with a full tank of gas.
The route will take us through an incredible array of roads and terrain. Here is a brief description of the route:
Through historic Stone Ridge and past many Revolutionary War era homes. Over the
Mohonk ridge near New Paltz, past the best rock climbing and repelling areas in
the Northeast. Down the Shawangunk ridge on Tow Path road, literally driving
through the ultra creepy and still functioning Eastern NY Correctional Facility,
a castle-like, turn of the century maximum-security prison.
http://www.correctionhistory.org/easternny100/opener.html Back up the ridge on
the now defunct and infamous Ellenville Hill Climb road, then across the
mountaintop on Gully road, through Historic Cragsmoor and down the ridiculously
narrow and steep Vista Maria. Then just a whole slew of narrow twisty back roads
to New Paltz.
Be there or be square.
Best regards,
Bruce Turk
