Riding the North County

Starting at 8:30 on Saturday, Dan Pfaff and I rode the Bolton's 115K Permanent. The route is Central Springfield to Fair Grove to Bolton's General Store (north of Willard and east of Walnut Grove on Hwy BB) and back. The segment between Fair Grove and Bolton's is on the Trans-America Bicycle route. We don't ride this permanent as much as we should. There are plenty of hills that would help keep us in shape. Highways CC and BB that run east-west across the county pretty much follow the hill contours with few cuts and fills. The most common sign is "IMPASSABLE DURING HIGH WATER". Fortunately, we did not have any high water.  There are also usually a number of dogs along the route, but most seemed to have been hunkered down trying to stay warm on Saturday. The only dog that gave us any trouble was on a downhill, so we were able to zip past him. The weather was nice. It was sunny most of the day with a slight wind out of the north to northeast. The high was in the low fifties.

Dan heading north out of Springfield

Bank of Fair Grove

Bolton's

Little Sac River

Impassable During High Water

Low-water crossing

Historic Wommack Mill in Fair Grove