Beautiful Shenandoah Valley Bicycle Ride

What a great sunrise on the way back in town from the Thursday am bicycle ride! Hugo was drilling it today!

Gotta get out and ride whenever you can, the spring classics are coming SOON!

Have you heard of the Rough Roubaix?...
you will soon!

Trail Improvement Project in the GW - Moving Forward! - Thanks USFS, SVBC, SMT, IMBA and Ironwood Outdoors

The North River Ranger District of the George Washington National Forest has partnered with Ironwood Outdoors to rehabilitate a portion of the Wild Oak National Recreation Trail, Bear Draft Trail and Shaffer Hollow Trail. District Ranger Elwood Burge is leveraging limited trail maintance funding that will end up quadrupling its value before the project is done. By the time the project is completed the Shenandoah Valley Bicycle Coalition, Shenandoah Mountain Touring, the International Mountain Bicycling Association and other trail volunteer groups will contribute volunteer hours and provide financial assistance helping Ironwood Outdoors more the project forward.


The trail project is in Augusta County on Lookout Mountain which over looks the North River watershed in the George Washington National Forest. Stabilizing the soil on these mountain trails will improve water quality and provide a better recreational experience for all the non motorized trail visitors which consists of equestrians, bicyclists, hikers and trail runners. National Forest Trail Specialist Christian Canary said, "we are really excited to give the bicyclists' this opportunity to improve these system trails that they enjoy so much. Everyone will benefit from this collaboration"

Shaffer Hollow Trail and portions of the Wild Oak Trail are used in the upcoming Shenandoah Mountain 100 Backcountry Bicycle Event held on Sunday September 4th. The annual event is held the Sunday of Labor Day weekend. 2011 will mark the 13 edition of the event. The event is operated under a special event permit with the George Washington National Forest. The event brings over 2000 visitors to the Forest each year contributing over $500,000 annually to the local economy while leveraging hundreds of volunteer trail improvement hours associated with the event.

Shenandoah Mountain Touring, LLC

http://www.mountaintouring.com/

Two Virginia Mountain Bike Trail Videos with Jeremiah Bishop, Cory Rimmer and Andy Johnston

The Big Schloss Sector- its soooooo good!




The Shenandoah Mountain Sector- Thin amazing appalachian singletrack!

Shenandoah Valley spring storms make great route choices!

amazing sky today

I wanted to go huge over Shenandoah Mountain from town
Rough Run is such a sweet route
and then back over again via Rt. 33
I had the gear bagged and sealed - jacket and gloves
but I had to turn and dodge north
the storms were looking a bit powerful
met up with Jack and John while at the crux
got in some nice additional miles with them
we kept nice and dry for the rest of the ride
while surfing the tailwind back to town


north west looks ok

west looks sketchy

beautiful, but sketchy

nice little pockets of mountain goodness

wet roads dry me

wet me and raining good

feels great!

the Rough Run area looks rough

pedal forward into a new plan

north east is looking safe

Jack and John were looking for dry roads too

beautiful views towards Massanutten

Jack carves the dreamy roads

John is happy he didn't cancel his ride

the contrast is amazing!