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THE RUS LAICH MEMORIAL ADVENTURE TOUR
RUN BOOK
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Memoriam
To Dea!
or California
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Hockey is my favorite because I'mfrom Michigan. I used to figure-
skate and root for the Red Wings.
Jana Kramer
There are always words for loss. Always ways to say sorry for
the sellout. No sense of irony in the marketing of purity. Boring is
so insipid. The things that inspire me have no sense of industry -
no shoguns of the slogan declaring cool. We are in it for the
profit, not the money.
The R.L.M. Adventure Tour covers four nights and two days of
riding through and across the mountains valleys and gaps of Ver-
monts Green Mountains. The tour begins June nineteenth at sun-
down at the Mad River Motor Company in Granville, VT. This will
be home base for the duration. Set up camp and leave it. We ride
the twentieth and twenty first and depart after breakfast the morn-
ing of the twenty second. Meals, Beverages, and Gas are your
concern. Food will be available all weekend through Truck of theDead catering. Details on the cost will be forth coming. The Gran-
ville General Store is 1.2 miles north of the MRMC and open eve-
nings until 10pm. Camping is provided free of charge though
please note, this is private property provided to you gratis.
Treat our home with the respect it deserves.
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2014 Mad River Motor Company
As a condition of your voluntary participation in the RLM Adventure
Tour, you hereby release and discharge the Organizers from any and
all claims, demands, damages, or liabilities arising from injury to your
persons or property. You are responsible for you and what you do, so
think and act responsibly.
THE 20TH ANNUAL RUS LAICH MEMORIAL GREEN MOUNTAIN ADVENTURE TOUR
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DAY ONE: JUNE 19TH
Arrival:
Find your way to the Mad River Motor Company compound in Granville Vermont.
Fire flies at 7pm though well be expecting you throughout the afternoon. Arrive
earlier and you may just find yourself at the push end of a broom. Help is alwaysappreciated, just not always voluntary. Plan accordingly. Pick whichever field
suits your speed and set camp.
Commissary provided by Truck of the Dead Catering Services.
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Because in the end, you wont remem-ber the time you spent working in theoffice or mowing your lawn. Climb
that goddamn mountain.
J.K.
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DAY TWO
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DAY TWO: JUNE 20TH
The journey south begins at the Bethel Mountain Rd. The Rochester
Gap - which the Mountain Rd. passes through - offers stunning pano-
ramic views of Vermonts Green Mountain majesty. From there, we
follow the Connecticut River down Vt Rt 14 and 12. The turn onto
131 in Ascutney takes us West across the state. We return to Route
100 south in Ludlow and follow it to Londonderry where we meet Vt.
Route 11w. 11 becomes 30 east of Manchester. Route 30 up the
western edge of the state is the highlight of the Adventure Tours first
day. The Stone Valley Byway - from Manchester to Middlebury - with
its idyllic pastures, its mountain lakes and classical village centers,
is quintessential New England
The final leg - from Middlebury to Granville across Vt. Rt. 125 and
the Middlebury Gap - is the most technical of the day. Only 17 miles
up and over the Green Mountains spine, it never the less offers the
opportunity at a wide variety of riding. From the loping straight
aways of the Breadloaf campus to the tight radius turns of the Ripton
rapids, Route 125 is the right kind of end to a spectacular first day of
riding.
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We are shaped and fashioned bywhat we love.
JWG
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All truly wise thoughts have been thoughtalready thousands of times; but to makethem truly ours, we must think them overagain honestly, until they take root in ourpersonal experience.
JWG
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Daring ideas are likechessmen moved forward.They may be beaten, butthey may start a winninggame.
JWG
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No one is willing to be-lieve that adults too, likechildren, wander aboutthis earth in a daze and,like children, do not knowwhere they come from or
where they are going
JWG
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The greatest thing in thisworld is not so muchwhere we stand as in whatdirection we are moving.
JWG
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One never goes so far aswhen one doesn't know
where one is going.
JWG
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People of uncommon abili-ties generally fall into eccen-tricities when their sphere oflife is not adequate to theirabilities.
JWG
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To give dignity to what has beenscorned, to make the degraded de-sirable, that calls for art or for char-acter.
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When a human awakens to agreat dream and throws thefull force of his soul over it, allthe universe conspires in yourfavor.
JWG
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Suffer or triumph, be thehammer or the anvil.
JWG
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Here the old man saidwith a smile: 'Love doesnot rule, but it trains, andthat is more
JWG
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What dazzles, for the Mo-ment spends its spirit:
What's genuine, shall Poster-ity inherit.
JWG
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Imagination is the voice of daring.If there is anything Godlike about
God it is that. He dared to imagineeverything...
HM
On the second day of riding, The Adventure
Tour turns toward familiar, though not less daunt-
ing, ground. The final leg across the Appala-
chian Gap will be the most technical of the
weekend so make sure to be careful and ride
your own ride.
Heading north up Vt. Route 100, we begin the
day in the Granville Gulf. Sixteen miles of single
lane switch backs that follow the Mad River
north, the Gulf offers spirited riding terrain when
the pavement allows.
North of Waitsfield, we stay on 100 towardStowe. Classical Vermont is around every cor-
ner here. From the Ben & Jerrys factory to the
breweries of Heady Topper and Lawsons Fin-
est, the epicurean delights the Green Mountains
have to offer will be secondary to the miles of
undulant bends this section of 100 serves.
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In Stowe, we turn from 100n to Route 108n. The route through Smug-
glers Notch is decidedly different. Please be prepared for blind hair-
pin turns, single lane roads and large rock impediments. It is best to
have a keen awareness of the riders around you while passing
through the Notch
Route 108n leads to VT15w which we follow into Jericho. In Jericho,
we bushwack a bit, cutting around Burlingtons traffic to Route 116
toward Bristol. A stop at Bristol Falls off the Lincoln Rd. is a weather
related detour. If the sun shines, we stop here and swim before our
way back across the Ap Gap.
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Ah, life is a gate, a way, a path to Paradise anyway, why not live for fun and joy and love or somesort of girl by a fireside, why not go to your desire and LAUGH.
JK
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Day Four: June 22nd
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What is that feeling when youre drivingaway from people and they recede on theplain till you see their specks dispersing? its the too-huge world vaulting us, and itsgood-bye. But we lean forward to the nextcrazy venture beneath the skies.
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Au revoir
You dont have to go... You just cant stay here...
Mad River Motor Company 4267 Vermont Route 100
Granville, VT 05740(802) 767-3939
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Sometimes the evenings joys bite harder than is expected
and the scream-barfs stay straight through to morning. Some-
times, there are no old medicine man remedies to cure what ails.
For those of you suffering a bout of Adventure Tour Flu, these
routes offer a condensed riding distance with obvious intersec-
tions with the main pack marked. The riding is neither as challeng-
ing nor scenic. The time the pack will take to intersect is a crap
shoot though estimations are included. These, of course, do not
include timing for the main packs gas stops
THE ALTERNATE ROUTES
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Day Two Alternate Route
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From Farm to Gas Station: 1 hour20 minutes
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Day Three Alternate Route
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Farm to Bristol Falls (SwimmingHole): 45 minutes
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Day Three Alternate Route