John Sessoms wrote: >From: David J Brooks >> On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 9:24 PM, Mark Roberts <m...@robertstech.com> wrote: >> >>> > Bring your bike to GFM: A ride through the Blue Ridge Mountains with >>> > Frank Theriault will make the Himalayas seem easy! >> >> They got abit testy when Frank rode his bike in the park and made him >> stop. Out side its ok. > >They have a couple of annual rides. There's one called the "Bridge to >Bridge Challenge" that finishes at the top.
Bridge-to-Bridge is a 100-mile (century) ride that goes from Lenoir, NC to the top of Grandfather Mountain, the final two miles or so being the famous switchback road from the front gate of the park to the top parking lot at Linville Peak. There's 9275 feet of total climb for the entire course. Amazingly, there are two other century rides in the same area, the Blue Ridge Brutal 100 and the Blood, Sweat and Gears Century (purportedly the toughest - 13,000 feet of climb). I've done the BS&G twice and it's truly grueling: Snake Mountain is a 5-mile stretch of climb mostly at 9% grade but finishing with a 1/4 mile section at 18%. >But the road to the summit is usually automobile only for safety reasons. Mostly insurance/liability reasons from what I've been told but it keeps bikes off the road, whatever the reason. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
