Hello All, we have a really fun ride planned for Saturday March 29. So much fun that someone wrote back that she'd rather hang herself. Yes this ride does look to be more fun than I've had in a long time. But then April is almost here and for those of you who intend to do the really fun rides, the 3 State 3 Mountain Century is just a month away and the Mountains of Misery Century is just over a month and a half away. You can't start getting used to so much fun soon enough.
As always there will be plenty of regrouping stops and store stops and I'll happily ride with the slowest riders, especially up Sauratown and Hanging Rock. Though I won't walk as that would be faster and get the fun over too quickly.
This is the old route #27 for those of you who've done Bill's rides in the past, modified to show the starting point in Colfax. Which in the spirit of fun adds a few rolling miles to the route. Before we roll out I will ask the group if we'd like to modify the route, I'm going to propose that we go straight up to Walnut Cove and straight up from there to the left turn on Mountain, instead of going right on Pine Hall Rd. towards Dillard. That will shorten the ride to a little under 90 miles - I know, not quite as much fun - but gives us several more regrouping/store stop opportunities on the way up. I've never passed thru Dillard and a store be open, though there's always the first time. We'll do whatever the group wants to do but I'm going to make that suggestion.
As of Friday morning Mother Nature is smiling on us, or maybe she's laughing at us, and it appears the weather will be fine. Slightly cool but dry. Here's the weather policy for tomorrow. Since most of you will have to leave your homes by 8:30 to get to Colfax in time, if it's raining at 8:30 then the ride is off. If that happens I'll put a post in this forum about a ride to start later, mid day or early afternoon, to maybe head up to Hanging Rock. But I'm not going to plan that now since it looks like the weather will be fine.
Hope to see all of you there,
Mike