Nov 11, 2024
I needed something at the Hardware Store and since I only got a file mile ride in earlier today I took the Surly out on an errand. There was fresh popcorn, too, so that made it all the better.
My route took me from Rutland City, into Rutland Town, then into Pittsford, then back to Rutland Town, then through Mendon, back to Rutland Town, and finally back to Rutland (City).
You can see Pico Mountain
Pico Mountain from Rt 4, looks like an ancient pluton but it's not.
Pico Mountain (Pico Peak) in Vermont formed as part of the ancient Green Mountains through massive tectonic plate collisions, mountain-building episodes, and glacial carving. Precambrian Core: The deep rock foundation of Pico Mountain contains ancient metamorphic rocks from the supercontinent Rodinia, dating back about 1.3 billion years. Long ago, the area lay beneath a shallow tropical ocean where thick layers of sand and mud accumulated. Taconic Orogeny: Around 450 million years ago, colliding tectonic plates squeezed and heated these ocean sediments, pushing up early mountain chains. Acadian Orogeny: A second major collision between 375 and 335 million years ago added more heat and pressure, intensely folding and metamorphosing the rock into the schist and gneiss found today.Glacial Sculpting. During the Pleistocene epoch over the last two million years, the Laurentide Ice Sheet covered the region. Moving ice and melting water carved the steep slopes, rounded the summit, and left behind deposits of glacial till and soil.
Before turning onto Rt 4 is when the real fun began.
I found Wheelerville Road, a 13 mile dirt road climb to Brewers Corners
and the source of Rutland's water supply.
Fun rollers after making the turn at Brewers Corners
There's a nice view of what may be the back side of Bird Mountain and the Taconic Range from Notch Road.
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