Jon Stillman

Here’s the drone view of the start on Sunday: https://youtu.be/A-oZPjB1RH8 Enjoy!  

Hi everyone, First off, some good news. I just checked the weather forecast for tomorrow, and the threat of a possible thunderstorm has been removed. Overall, both weather.com and accuweather.com are predicting a better day than they had been. Here’s what accuweather.com has to say: “Clouds and breaks of sun, a brief shower or two …

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Find it here. It contains a number of things that you need to know about the ride, as well as some guidance that may help you be better prepared for the day. If you go through it and still have questions, please post your questions as posts on the ride guide page on the website …

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As many of you come into our area from a distance and may be spending today (Saturday) in the region as well, please consider visiting and patronizing our sponsors (http://www.farmersdaughtergravelgrinder.com/sponsors/). They each make significant contributions to the success of our event each year, and to making it a unique event. And for those of you who …

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It’s been tough over the past few days to determine what the weather is going to look like on Sunday, and there are still some discrepancies among the forecasting models. Columbia County is on the northern edge of a rainy system that’s been stuck in the NY Metro area and the Hudson Valley, and it’s …

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With apologies for not updating this  for 2018 sooner, I hope that it may still be of help to some of you. The only changes were to include some information about camping. We’ve had a few inquiries recently about places to stay in the area of the Farmer’s Daughter event, so I thought I’d post …

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Here’s a link to the official 2018 FDGG course map. We publish this shortly before the event so that you can look it over, download the gpx file, etc. You are also welcome to pre-ride any of the road sections. However, the off-road sections are normally closed to public use by bicycle. Most are on …

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We just received a pre-production mock-up of our 2018 caps. Everyone registered will receive a 2018 cap, an ale glass, and a Trek water bottle (donated by Steiner’s Ski and Bike). And we’ll show you a great time, too, with a beautiful course, great aid stations including the now famous Bountiful Bread stop, a full …

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We have just received the mockup for this year’s ale glasses and thought we’d share it with you. We’ve chosen a different glass design for this year. As always, it’s the perfect size for your free post-ride pint of Farmer’s Daughter rye IPA from Chatham Brewing. Hope you all like it!