Sometimes you get a too-silly idea in your head and then have to go do it just to make that reality:
That said, in the realm of things more actually relevant, after once again bypassing the Millwood piece between 100 and the parking lot via the grocery store lot, this time I took a look back down the trail and it seems like they've hopefully fixed that marshy spot which started developing large persistent puddles. Or at least I hoped they fixed it - it had rained enough even overnight that there were puddles in other places on the trail there usually are not, and I think I saw water on the margins, but the new paving there looks dry.
North end of it is not barricaded but south is fenced off, so a number of southbound bike commuters sitting in road traffic at the lights, I hope they take the fence down soon as bypassing that stretch is frustrating.
Also encountered some milled surface as if prepped for paving, trying to remember where, trying to remember if it was on the NCT between Millwood and the bridge, or now that I think about it my memory is more of by the lumber yard between Mahopac and the Carmel crossing... one thing tends to blend into another...
Been trying to figure out a better way to do a century on this than last summer's up and back that put the bumpy parts of the SCT after dark. Yesterday starting thinking of riding up, retracing to Millwood and then going north again since the Putnam County portion isn't bad after dark, but that doubles the extended climbs from the bridge to Yorktown and Yorktown to Baldwin. So I guess another option would be to ride up to the Kitchawan bridge, return to the city line, then ride north for real.