iman29
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If you can get on the McDade trail highly recommend it. Me and 4 others just did this ride for the first time Sunday we had never been on there. It’s mostly hard packed shale gravel and some cool sections of woods with with a LOT of leaf cover.The 140 route is cued up for Thursday. Looks to be the best weather day this weekend to make this happen. I'll be starting at 6 and going until it's done. Planned stops in PJ and East Stroudsburg for food and resupply. I will have the equivalent of 4 bottles with me on the bike and those stops will be 4-5 hours apart so I should be good. Going over the bike tonight to clean it and get it ready. Going with the gravel bike with 40c tires on it. I'll have a big water bottle on the fork and a big seat bag to take all of my clothing layers with me. Temps look to be from 35-65 ish. I need to be prepared for all of that.
Oh and at the moment I plan on gravel in PA. That’s the plan until I get there at least.
We did this going clockwise across the Paulinskill and into PA and then back along McDade. We made a logistical error and didn’t have enough water from our lunch stop mile 37 until we finally got back into NJ after climbing from dingmans bridge around mile 63. That was rough but it was also like 65F at that point so a little warm.
It east stroudsburg we stopped at this awesome bakery on Broad street they have everything you need to refuel. We should have grabbed extra water and drinks after this stop.
This bacon egg and cheese was the bomb.
Route looks epic good luck.