I couldn’t restrain myself; when I saw the road yesterday I just had to climb Mt. Greylock on my bike. It was so worth it. I regret to say that this is only the second time I’ve ascended the roughly 2500 ft. from the reservoir to the summit, but that’s because I got into cycling a little late and the road has been under construction for three years. The views were excellent and I even got a glimpse at my distant beloved white mountains. Check out some low quality pictures.

Here is a long overdue portion of the blog, a MotionBased link:
http://trail.motionbased.com/trail/invitation/dashboard.mb?episodePk.pkValue=8340981

the reservoir

beautiful houses near the entrance to MtG State Park

the hopper valley

the summit from fitch overlook

adams

they say that Mt. Greylock is 9ft short of being considered an “official” mountain by USGS. i think the tower makes up for that though. it still is the highest point in massachusetts

they also say you used to be able to see Boston from here until there was just too much smog. you actually can see the white mtns though, if you look the right way

the famous Mt. Greylock tower. I once climbed up to the light room, when i was in about 6th grade, and i was the highest person on land in massachusetts!

Thanks for viewing!

Ian

Tags: Distance, mt greylock

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