Monday works for me
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Monday works for me
We have roughly until noon Monday to hit the summit. Earlier is better for us but not mandatory.
Monday morning works for us.
The Auto Road opens at 9:00am. It takes roughly 30-45 minutes bottom to top, usually a few minutes longer for the descend - so figure a couple hours to get up, do your thing and get down. I have no problem leaving my house at 7:00 to be at the base by 9:00. Hell, I leave earlier for work. But I don't know if we want to be rushing up straight away in the morning. It may take a couple hours for the clouds to clear/fog to rise, etc., which may or may not affect views from the summit. They also have the authority to delay motorcycle traffic if it's too fogged in/cloudy, windy, or whatever.
Case in point: It's currently 53 degrees at the summit with a 35MPH winds and less than 1/16 of a mile visibility.
It SEEMS like a 10:00am meet at the base would work with the timelines I'm seeing. Am I reading everything correctly?
Your my insider knowledge, so I'm good with whatever you suggest.
Works for us too.
What wind speeds do they shut it to motorcycles?
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Originally Posted by 01xj
I'm no expert by any stretch. But I do have a habit of hitting it at least once a year on bike, sometimes twice.Quote:
Originally Posted by boosten lebaron
I'm not entirely sure what the criteria is for allowing passage. Overall visibility along the Auto Road seems to be the #1 concern. They're obviously more stringent with motorcycles. But I can tell you they've let us up in some pretty shitty weather. Yet another time we were denied because it was windy with rain and very little visibility although it was in the lower 80's and beautiful at the base.
Okay, who's in? 10:00am, meet at the base. There's a dirt parking area BEFORE you go through the gate/toll that usually has A LOT more space. Well, at least there was last year. Let's meet there. If anyone has to use restrooms, we can stop at the base gift shop after we get through the gate/toll right quick, then shoot up the hill. Try to cut & paste or whatever to keep the list clean...
Stoneman (Jay)
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Originally Posted by boosten lebaron
Do you know what the route is for your backroad trip north? Depending on your route, I may try to catch up at some point Sunday. Are you talking hitting like, Route 202 into NH or some shit? Follow that into Concord, then grab Route 3? Once north of Concord, Route 3 isn't all that bad although it can be a bit of a pain from Franklin to Meredith. Or are you thinking like, REAL backroads?Quote:
Originally Posted by boosten lebaron
Stoneman (Jay)Quote:
Originally Posted by Stoneman
01XJ (Adam & Melanie)
Gps is our guide with no highways box checked. We can take whatever route is presented to us since we don't need to worry so much about getting to the autoroad now.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stoneman
We are leaving from Clinton Mass and basically heading north right up to Lincoln. It's a lot of routes but 13 to 77 to 202 to 103 to 127 to 3a then finally 3. We could hit 3 earlier and head around the lakes. Idk. Give us a rough plan and I can try to link up. Our plan is still to leave around noon which would put us in the Concord area around 130 or the laconia area around 230 if we want to move closer to you.
Monday morning 10am meetup at base of the autoroad:
Stoneman (Jay)
01XJ (Adam & Melanie). Single bike.
Boosten (Eric) and Lisa. Two bikes.
I could probably be in concord for 1:30 on Sunday as well.
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Originally Posted by boosten lebaron
Eh, shit. I just realized I'll probably be knee deep in painting the garage all weekend. But feel free to stop by with your paintbrushes, rollers & roller extensions. Obviously your ladders won't fit on the bikes, but I have a couple we can use that'll hopefully reach. We'll supply the paint!Quote:
Originally Posted by 01xj
The garage will still be there the next week. Paint it later.
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Originally Posted by boosten lebaron
I wish, but no can do. Pics & drone stuff at the beginning of the week. This is almost quite literally the last piece of the puzzle. I'ma TRY to get as much done as I can these next few days. In a perfect world I'd have it wrapped up by Saturday. But...oh look, shiny squirrel!!!
:lol:
But I like where your heads at! :hellyeah:
Anyone camping this weekend/early next week up in the area will be greeted by incredible weather. Temps in the mid to upper 80's, very low humidity during the days. Any showers for the foreseeable future will be scattered and unorganized and short lived.
We are seeing weather problems the further north we go after the summit. Monday starts looking real iffy later in the day and Tuesday looks down right bad once we cross Quebec. We may head up to the nebdr\tqt border crossing and ride on that for a bit then head someplace dryer for Tuesday\wednesday.
Yeah, the boundary seems to be setting up north of the border. Quebec City area will likely see some decent rain the beginning of the week, while places closer to the NH border like Sherbrooke for instance probably won't see all that much.Quote:
Originally Posted by boosten lebaron
Monday at 10:00 in the lot before the little bridge works for me.
I’m in NH .
Sea Ya at the base of the Auto Riad for a 10:00 O’clock ascent .
Word. We are just in North Conway now. Our gps really screwed us on the way up and rerouted us clear across the state on its own.
I'm out fellas. I was notified picture day is TOMORROW. Fuck me too, it looks like it's going to be phenomenal!
Pictures of what?
Unfortunately we have been called in to work today .
Wont be making the ascent.
Well...
I'll be there at 10
Sorry to hear that, brother. I kinda hoping you'd be my proxy on this one!Quote:
Originally Posted by Stoneman
5 of us made it! At the summit now. Little cold, little windy but a stunning day.
Nice trip up with 4 first timers.
Pretty much the perfect day.
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It looked like an ideal day for the trip. Unfortunately we spent 3 hours of prime riding time moving shit from one room to another, then back, then rinse & repeat throughout the house & yard. The drone stuff was pretty cool though.
I'm still determined to make the trip up before we disappear from New England!
my favorite view!Quote:
Originally Posted by SteveM
We waited for the sign to clear :D
Thanks everyone for meeting up.
It was exceptionally good weather up top. Nice to meet both of you!Quote:
Originally Posted by 01xj
Nice to meet you as well. We hung out for another hour at the top and then grabbed lunch in north Conway.Quote:
Originally Posted by SteveM
Eric how you guys doing on your trip?
Poorly lol. We got absolutely blasted by weather once we got into Canada. We did a day or so of the trans Quebec trail with was basically nice gravel roads that went on for hundreds of miles so not crazy intense. Then the weather hit us tornado warnings, shelter in place orders, driving rain so bad I had no hope of seeing out my visor. Every hotel we crossed was booked up but we got lucky when we stopped at a restaurant in the middle of no where to hide from the lightning storms and they had a spare room they let us use for the night. It was nicer than camping out and getting soaked.
After that the weather started to clear so we jumped at the chance to get out of Dodge and headed west fast to avoid another incoming storm. The US border guard was being a bitch and wouldn't let us back into the states so that burned up a good chunk of the day trying to get back in so we just raced to back home rather than press our luck anymore. I think we covered about 1100 miles in total. No accidents or mech problems. Just lousy weather.
What was the issue at the border crossing?Quote:
Originally Posted by boosten lebaron
We headed for a hotel when those storms came in too. Found a super weird place in sunapee with no employees or staff that I could find. They just texted me a door code and it opened so we crashed there. Parked by an adandoned boat in a seedy parking lot but the bike was there when I woke up.
What was the border crossing issue?
Border crossing was a few things. First it was my bike was possibly stolen because the license plate reader couldn't read my plate because my top box was covering the angle the camera looked at. So I had to prove it wasn't stolen by giving him my reg, my insurance info, my inspection sticker print out and pics of my vin. Turns out he could have just manually punched in my plate and saved me all the trouble. He did the same exact thing to Lisa. He was giving her all sorts of a hard time. Kept having her get on and off the bike like it was a sport. There was a bit of fuss about us not having a booked hotel room waiting near by. I told him we were heading directly home and he didn't believe us because it was too far away and we should have a hotel booked. It was just a mess. Once another agent came everything was sorted.
which crossing ?Quote:
Originally Posted by boosten lebaron