Wednesday Warriors

Scott has announced the route for this year’s ride in Damascus. Here’s the dirt:

Trail Description: This year we will try a new trail on the south side of the Virginia Creeper trail above Taylor’s Valley.(blue rectangle blaze) This trail will bypass about 4 miles of the Virginia Creeper Trail between Taylor’s Valley and Creek Junction (the two high straight trestles). The Taylor’s Valley Trail starts at the far end of Taylor’s Valley as a gravel double track on the right where the paved road ends and the Creeper goes back in the woods. After about a mile, it is gated and turns to a grassy double track with some open meadows. About a mile from the end, it becomes a single track for the descent to the creek

Once at Creek Junction, we will ride up the road to US58, tun left, and ride a few miles to FS90. Before the top, we will take a left onto Bushwacker Trail (yellow diamond blaze), which will eventually connect to the Iron Mountain Trail.

Stay on the Iron Mountain trail down Mauck (sp?) Hollow into Damascus.

Be sure to pack a lunch and bring plenty of water.

Meeting Place: 6:30 Dublin, McDonalds parking lot. Here we will consolidate rides to Damascus.

The Plan:

• 7:00 Leave Dublin on I-81 south for Damascus (Take SR 91 south at exit 29)
• 8:30 Arrive at Damascus. Meet at the Caboose Park on the west end of town. (turn right at stop sign)
• 9:00 Begin ride up Creeper.
• 3:00 Arrive back at Damascus (estimated)

It’s coming up this weekend, and is sure to be fun - come out and race, or just get out on the course, pretend to race, and just enjoy a great ride, food, and fun! Here’s the description from Ben Brown:

Just a heads up The Rowdy Dawg Mountain Bike Race is coming up on October 26th. The volunteers have done work on the trails in the last year so they should be well groomed and fast for this year’s race.

We have a caterer lined up, real food will be provided after, the weather should be perfect for a day in the woods. Get on the phone and call up your racer buddies, challenge their manhood, place some bets - get folks fired up! Even have custom Rowdy Dawg socks to give to the first 70 racers to sign up on BikeReg.

If you want to volunteer just reply an email to me and we’ll set you up - or come out last minute and sign up at the tent.

Heres a link to the race information and updated course descriptions:
http://www.montva.com/departments/parks/rowdy/index.php

Hope to see you there!

You can see all of Heidi’s pictures from last Wednesday HERE. Sorry for the slow response, Heidi!

Thanks to Renee’s witty suggestion, you can now send an email to Glenn to get on the weekly mailing list. Just click the “Subscribe to ride announcements” link over there in the right margin.

- Jon

Here are some pics from the Creeper / Iron Mountain ride, courtesy of Kent.