I got the same type of e-mail and phone calls again last week. “Let’s do a long ride on Saturday. I have a route planned out.” It was again on for a Saturday morning departure of 7:15am (just enough light to start riding) and making sure I had at least 4 hours. The same crew as usually was ready to ride. At least this time the ride was in my back yard so I didn’t have to get up at 5:30am. The ride route was through Bent Creek into Mills River and back. Pretty straight forward….unless you ride with this group. Through Bent Creek and into Mills River with no problems. Once in Mills River Jason and DW got an idea to take a trial back to the Parkway. Keep in mind no one has done this route and we have just climb to the Parkway and have decent to the river on the other side. This could be a lot of climbing. We all decided what the heck lets go for it. I’m not going to bore you with the details but let’s just say this. At the end near the Parkway the trail got steep enough that we all had to do about a 40 minute hike a bike. Once we got to the top we realized we where by Mt. Pisgah which is a lot higher up on the Parkway then we thought we were going. The decent down was really cold and no one was dressed for this type of adventure. Needless to say….five hours and forty five minutes later I rolled up to the house freezing. Once again another great adventure with guys. I wonder where next week will take us.
Climbing up to the Parkway from Bent Creek to enter into Mills River area
Good winter single track
Calling the wives and letting them know they are running about 2 hours late.
2 comments:
Looks like a fun really cold ride. Were you all on ss?
Two of us were until someone broke their shifter. Then there were three of us on single speeds. There is another adventure in the works for this Saturday.
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