Lincoln Gap road from above
— — the road bends twice before the trees take it back.
Not only on a wall.
“From above the pass, Lincoln Gap Road appears as a thin grey line cutting through a forest of spruce and sugar maple, dropping fast off the spine of the Greens. The western descent loses more than a thousand feet in under two miles, with hairpins that read clearly from the ridge. In early October the corridor of trees holding the road runs orange against the deeper conifer green to either side. — from the studio
Lincoln Gap road from above, on ceramic.
Each tile is finished by hand in our Knoxville studio. Artwork is slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, and rests beneath a thin glossy finish. The colour lives in the surface, not on top of it.
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The place, in three passes.
Lincoln Gap Road is the paved town road that crosses the main spine of the Green Mountains at 2,424 feet, linking the village of Lincoln on the west with Warren on the east in central Vermont. The road is bordered on both sides by the Green Mountain National Forest. Seen from above, the road traces a steep S through the gap between Mount Abraham to the north and Mount Grant to the south. It is one of only a handful of paved roads anywhere in Vermont to cross the Long Trail at grade.
From the ridgeline the road reads as a thin line cut through northern hardwood and red spruce, dropping more than a thousand feet in under two miles on the Lincoln side. The hairpins are visible against the canopy from any high point along the Long Trail. The west slope catches afternoon light first; the east slope, falling toward the Mad River valley, holds shadow longer into the morning. On still days woodsmoke from Lincoln village reads faintly along the western pitch.
The road closes from roughly late October to mid-May, when snow and the steep grades make ordinary winter passage unsafe. The town does not plow the upper section. Foliage along the road usually peaks the last week of September into the first week of October, and the corridor of hardwoods directly framing the pavement turns orange and red against the surrounding spruce. Cyclists time their climbs to the shoulder weeks on either side of the closure for the clearest air.