For Brittni Gorman of Glen, it was quite a long week or so alone in the woods with her loaded mountain bike.
She rode through the sun’s warmth and rain’s chill on Vermont’s gravel roads, single track, paved roads, ATV trails and rail trails as autumn flashed its pastel landscape.
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