Roan Mountain

This week is the fall trip to North Carolina for mountain riding in the Roan Mountain area. The weather thus far was beautiful on Wednesday and Thursday, rain on Friday, and today is a bit chilly, but definitely rideable. We rode yesterday in the rain as well, though some are questioning whether they should have.

Got a few great pictures that I will post later on Picasa, but overall it has been a great trip. A few newbies on the trip, which is always good. They seem to go through a wave of feeling great and feeling awful as they get their mountain legs.

Yesterday we found an excellent new road. I surprised everyone with a climb that was previously undone, but that Michael Davis (of the former Bicycle Inn) had told me about when we were down here in 2006. The road is Coxes Creek and climbs over 1,000 vertical feet in a mile and a half. It was a serious workout trying to get to the top, but everyone survived and everyone made it without walking.