LeConte

11 cyclist/friends go for a hike together in The Great Smoky Mountains National Park:

Newfound gap> Appalachian Trail > Boulevard > Jump Off> Boulevard > Myrtle Point > Boulevard > Cliff Tops >LeConte Lodge > Alum Cave > Beer

14ish miles of rouged Appalachian/elevation hiking. It took about 7 hours and hurt worse than the 115 miles on the bike last weekend.

Thomas has some fantastic pictures of the day over at Harvest the Ride.

I took a few pictures:









I have to give credit to Mike Ford who came along after having finished riding the entire Blue Ridge Parkway in the previous 7 days. Had I just fished that kind of ride, I probably would take at least one day off.

Ron Paul on oil/Iraq

Picture Catch-up

Its been a busy month and I've fallen behind on the updates.
We've been on some trips latly, camping and family biking in Virinia:




We went to Florida and played on the beach:

We did some sailing and various boating:

We went to Tara's grandfather's 80th birthday party. I can only hope to be living life to the fullest at that age the way he is.





Noah and I have done some fishing latly, we have been moderatly successfull.

Noah is growing so fast he is already wearing my sandles and helment

Of course theirs been a little riding going on.

I road the Cherohala Challenge yesterday, 115 miles with +10,000' of climbing. 7:18 total time with a 6:45 ride time, 46.5mph peak!!!

Lots of fun packed days latly

Education

A couple of videos that have been powerful for me lately. I'm not sure I believe it all but its interesting.





If you have the time and attention to read a couple of hours this site Peak Oil is a very good and well documented read. Whatever the "truth" is i do believe we are on the brink of a radical change in civilization as we have known it to be and your not going to find out about it through mainstream news until its already happened.

Greenway Beer Bike

I scored a sweet new bar bike off Ebay last week. I got it together last night, should prove to give lots of commuting and bar hopping fun.


Love the head tube badge:

May Ride Log

Kind of a slow month on the bike.

1st Greenway Fix 2:00
3rd PMBAR 9:15
6th Neighborhood Ride :30
7th Haw Ridge 2:00
9th Commute to Work 1:30
10th Cyclocross adventure 4:30
12th Commute to work 2:00
14th Rode to a Bar :30
16th Commute to work 3:30
17th Road Ride 3:00
18th Raccoon Mountain 3:30
19th Commute to work 2:00
21st Haw Ridge 2:00
24th Iron Mountain Trail @:30
25th VA Creeper 2:00
29th Rode to store in Fl :30

39:15 in May with a week of vacation and sinus infection in the mix.