Bent Creek -> Trace Ridge
Super fun ride today with Erinna. We started at the Campground Connector trail at Bent Creek then rode up to the Blue Ridge Parkway on FS 479. 479 was painful and it was tough mentally to get a groove going. Later than expected we made it to the top and hopped on the parkway. It was an absolutely beautiful day. We sure are blessed being able to live here. The view was outstanding:
We headed up the Parkway to Trace Ridge. Down Trace to the site of the PMBAR Trace checkpoint
then onward to the super fast ultra fun classic pisgah descent... The reason I put the CP there... Trace Ridge
After Trace it was the long climb back up to the Parkway, through the Bent Creek Gap tunnel, back down 479(YeeHaw!), and left onto Cardiac, Lower Sidehill. Short yet steep climb then the next killer descent back into Bent Creek. A left and a right later we arrived at the car and ran into Tara, aka M-U-M, aka Lwac, for short heading out an a 'water-bottle' ride
Thanks to Tara and Rick for manning the SORBA sponsored Davidson River CP!
Great ride today. One of those rare weekday moring type. Excellent.
15.5 miles ~ 4100 feet of climbing ~ 2.5 hours
