Bostock Road

Bostock Road is a fun ride in either direction.  I start out heading East from the corner of Brunel Drive on Upper Boiceville Road and then, depending on how the legs are feeling and on whether I want a long moderate workout or a shorter savage workout, I either (a) follow Upper Boiceville out to Route 28 and then on a nice slightly downhill stretch that last several miles and is a good workout along past the Puie View Bakery until I eventually turn left on Bostock Road before the hill up into Shokan starts, or (b) I turn left on Bostock Road and pedal, mostly standing, and mostly darting back and forth as if I were going up one of the Alps to the summit and then coast down Bostock -- a nice whiz! -- to Route 28 and then pedal back along route 28, a reasonably easy uphill.   Mostly I incline towards (b) -- it starts easy, therer's a long easy pedal on 28, and then the uphill on the "back" side of Bostock, though sometimes taxing, is a very good workout.  And then coming down the the steeps after the summit, there's a really gorgeous view of the Catskills behind and east of Samuels.  I think that's Wittenberg, but .... hard to tell.  Of course, you can get the same view on route (a) if you stop and look back as you approach the summit.  This takes me about 45 minutes in either direction, and it's one of my favorite rides.  But I wouldn't call it easy.