Today’s miles: 17 Total miles: 65.4 Camped: Boulder about a mile before Sassafras peak What a day. Slept well, heard the popping of the campfire a few sites over for awhile. Woke up to the popping of the same campfire. People love campfires. The day started with “heartbreak ridge”. The guy I passed going the […]
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Today’s miles: 16.1 Total miles: 48.4 Camped: Designated campsite on Southside of Toxaway Creek Most challenging day on the trail so far. I am pooped! Last night, I bear-ly sleeped. I was camped all alone and was so preoccupied by being attacked by a bear that I was really thrown for a loop when I
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Today’s miles: 15.9 Total miles: 32.3 Camped: Designated campsite just after side trail to Lower Whitewater Falls Woke up to freezing weather. I was toasty in my sleeping bag and did not want to get out. I slept pretty well and did not hear or see any animals whatsoever. I took a long time getting
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Today’s miles: 16.4 Total miles: 16.4 Camped: Burrell’s Ford Campground Didn’t sleep very well last night, due most likely to some nerves. Jim and Charlie (Jim’s faithful and adorable dog) picked me up as planned at 7am at Table Rock. We had a nice ride and good conversation. Jim and Charlie have hiked most of
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I’m in South Carolina! Had a long drive to Asheville, NC and stayed with a friend of a friend (thanks Will and Ashley!). The south welcomed me with mountains upon mountains and billboards advertising moonshine. I drove down to Table Rock State Park this morning. I stopped at a diner on the way and was
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Daily Miles: 88 Total Miles: 3191 Avg: 9.9 Max: 34.4 Time on the bike: 08:56:31 This was the longest day on the bike by over an hour. The riding was pretty difficult today, as it was all uphill for about 50 miles, with a few minor downhills in between, mostly at the end of the
Daily Miles: 105 Total Miles: 3102 Avg: 13.9 Max: 34 Time on the bike: 07:34:35 I woke up to a flat and sad rear tire. It was quite clear this problem wasn’t going to go away on its own. I woke up in the middle of the night thinking about it and had a hard
Daily Miles: 58.16 Total Miles: 2996 Avg: 12.8 Max: 30.9 Time on the bike: 04:30:41 I slept well and was riding by 7:00. The sun was right behind me and my shadow was cast long over the pavement in front of me. The wind seemed to be at my back and this was a good
Daily Miles: 53 Total Miles: 2876 Avg: 11.3 Max: 20.3 Time on the bike: 04:40:05 I woke up to a dark sky and rain that looked like something out of a movie where there is an outside burial, and everyone is standing out there in rain coats and umbrellas, sobbing and crying and getting all
Daily Miles: 56 Total Miles: 2777 Avg: 9.5 Max: 33.2 Time on the bike: 05:48:53 Today was hard. I was either climbing at 5 mph or zooming down the other side at 30. I was either sweating profusely trying to get to the top of the hill or freezing my butt off in the decent.