IJAH Presents: Green Mountain Gravel Growler
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 ต.ค. 2024
- Brian and Jon head to Vermont for their first bike packing adventure, tackling the Green Mountain Gravel Growler route they came across on BikePacking.com. Initially expecting to complete the ride in four days, with three nights of camping, see how long it takes Brian and Jon to ride all 250+ miles and climb all 20,000+ feet, while climbing up to the highest paved road in Vermont on 40-pound bikes and enjoying great food, foam and foliage.
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Awesome Hammer. Day 2 very impressive. Loved seeing this for my plan...
Glad you enjoyed it! Look forward to doing this trip again and again.
This was a great watch, thanks for posting it!
thanks for watching! hoping for a few more bike packing trips in 2022!
we did a 5 day bikepacking loop and hit some sections of the VGG. Vermont really spoils you for any future routes!
gravel heaven!!
Great video guys. Thinking about doing a similar trip with my buddy this summer. Looked like so much fun!!! 🤘
We can’t wait to go back this summer! 🤘💜
hi, where in winooski is the parking lot where you left your car? is it public parking? thank you
public parking lot at the corner of Roosevelt Highway and Hercules Dr.
44°30'39.8"N 73°10'48.3"W
I'm absolutely loving this video on this rainy Oct 30th day I'm from Western Massachusetts and ride single track and gravel on my diverge pro all over the place and watching you guys is a reflection of what I do on a daily but don't feel like doing it today in the rain so this is a great substitute thanks for the great video
thanks for watching!!
Great video!! Vermont is beautiful!
thanks for watching! We can't wait to ride up that way again!
Great video! We did this route twice, once in each direction. Great breweries on this ride!
Thanks for watching!
Those rocky hill needs a fat bike with platforms. 😅 Loved this video guys. Saw some very familiar roads in which I ride. 👍
thanks for watching! new 2022 version coming soon! what a great area to ride in.
Great video!
Very good video. From Cape Town, South Africa.
thanks for watching!
Awesome vid! I was researching this ride the other day, i wanted to try it on my fatbike but might after seeing this i might want something a little faster rolling. Back to the drawing board...
thanks for watching! hoping to be back up on these trails sometime in 2022
You guys rock. Impressive in 3 days and rain! We did an abridged version from Stowe and circling back through Elmore. Hillstead Farm Brewery is a must.
Thanks, can't wait to do another trip like that sometime soon!
If you don't put chips in your sandwich I don't know what the hell you doing 😂
its a pro move
- That Lincoln Gap climb was no joke. Nice job guys.
- 250.5 miles/ 22,129 feet of climbing
- You guys did it 3, days. I’d probably do it a week 😂
- thanks for sharing
that climb was brutal! thanks for watching
Pb 7 j and chips on white bread baby!!!
Love your videos. I'm primarily a roadie who's gotten into gravel and bike packing to start with a used aluminum Canyon Grail with front suspension, but it's weight, 27 lbs, is killing me. I'm considering each of your bikes here as an upgrade, or rather the Lauf Seigla vice TrueGrit. Hoping to have one gravel bike that I can both occasionally race and bike pack with. Warbird's not as light as the Seigla, but has more fittings for bikepacking gear, but also lacks the Seigla's front suspenseion. I'd love your thoughts on these two bikes, and any other gravel bikes to consider, as an all-arounder gravel/bike-packing bike? Thanks!
Hey thanks for watching and commenting. Not uncommon for a gravel bike on a packing trip to weigh close to 40 pounds. I try not to think about the weight too much on rides like that and love my Salsa Warbird.
hot enough to melt steel!
its true
Nice
I will be doing the cross New Hampshire, cross Vermont trail westbound in a week. I was thinking about going off course at Montpelier and either taking the north end of this loop or the south end and going back to Montpelier. I don’t have time to do all of it so you can you tell me which half of the loop was your favorite. Thanks
We suggest the north end. Up by Craftsbury and Greensboro is absolutely gorgeous and probably some of the best views on the full loop. Enjoy!!
Well Done! I'm new to bike packing and basically taking my backpacking stuff and strapping it on my bike. I assume you used an app to follow the trail? If so which one? Also was the trail well marked? THX in advance.
We downloaded the GPX track from Bikepacking.com and followed along on our head units. Brian has a Wahoo and Jon uses a Hammerhead
Full route details here: bikepacking.com/routes/green-mountain-gravel-growler/
The route is not fully marked, although some trails are marked in places.
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Now we have one more excuse to head back to Vermont!
Where are your spots to pitch your tents?
we spoke with a local establishment that let us camp out back for night one, and found a public park for night two.
Sick video man, love to see it. Production was top notch! Would I be insane to try this route on 26-28mm tires lol? Probably panaracer gravel king sk's..really want to ride it but only have a road bike currently. Thinking I could re route to avoid class 4 roads and some single track..would love to hear your thoughts
Thanks for the comment. Glad you enjoyed the video, and thanks for watching.
I do think 26-28s would be pushing it a bit, unless you really avoided all of the more technical stuff. Not impossible, but might turn it into more of a ride on tarmac, rather than mostly gravel. At least the bike would be slightly lighter with those skinnier tires! ha. Let us know if you have any more questions, and good luck with your adventure.
- Jon
@@ItsJustAHill I appreciate your input, thanks man!
Nice trip/vid. What size tires were you on?
Thanks for watching. I was running 37 Riddlers and Brian had a set of 40 Maxis Ramblers. - Jon
Which GoPros and bike mounts were you guys using?
We used a GoPro9 Black, GoPro8, along with some iPhone footage. Non-branded mounts were purchased online and attached to our handlebars.
This was one of the mounts: www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0789LSSL1/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Sweet! Thanks for the reply. Where did you guys end up parking? Was it free/cheap? A couple buddies and I are riding it next month and working out our last details now
@@Tbagscandalous We parked at a park and ride in Colchester, VT, just north of Burlington.
(623 Roosevelt Hwy, Colchester, VT 05446)
@@ItsJustAHill exactly what we’re looking for, thanks!
@@Tbagscandalous Good luck, have fun, and let us know how it goes! We are going to do it again a bit later this year.