Deposit
July 4, 2021
6 days / 372 miles / Surly Ogre
This was the first multi-day tour on my Surly Ogre which I had set up for road riding with 700x47c tires. Unfortunately, it rained for most of the trip and at one point on day 3 I was stuck on the side of the road by the Cannonsville Reservoir waiting for a storm to pass. On the 4th night while camping in the Texas Schoolhouse State Forest it was so wet that I woke to slugs covering the outside of my tent and even found a few inside my sandal that I had left next to the tent when I slipped them on to go take a pee in the middle of the night. That’s when I learned to bring my sandals inside the tent every night.
The route was very hilly down near the Catskills and the roads kept winding around as they followed the valleys along the reservoirs. Thus, the mileage per day was shorter than usual with the average only being 62 miles/day while I typically like to average at least 70 miles/day. Between the rain, hills, and winding roads it never felt like I was covering much ground each day.
Some useful links:
DEC Info Locator - An interactive map for NY State Land
DEC Forest Info - Overview of NY State Forests
Day 1 - Gansevoort to Summit (83.8 miles), camping in Burnt-Rossman Hills State Forest
Day 2 - Summit to Andes (68.4 miles), camping in Delaware Wild Forest
Day 3 - Andes to Deposit (44.4 miles), night at the Deposit Motel
Day 4 - Deposit to Mt Vision (55.8 miles), camping in Texas Schoolhouse State Forest
Day 5 - Mt Vision to Fultonville (55.1 miles), camping in Charleston State Forest
Day 6 - Fultonville to Gansevoort (64.5 miles)
