I can’t believe how nice the weather has been this week! It might be almost Thanksgiving, but it’s been a very nice weekend for riding. We went up the mountain for a couple hours on Saturday with A. I rode 2 up with DH, and we did some car timing riding from the lookout to the iron gates back and forth a few times. That’s the best section on the SC side of 28, and it’s a great little area to practice switchbacks. I’ll have to scan the maps we’ve drawn up that show more details, but for now here’s a couple crappy versions I have on here. One is of our entire 28 ride where as the other is a more zoomed in hybrid map of the switchbacks.

I really can’t wait to get my little 250. It’s going to be a great little mountain toy, and I’ll probably be taking it up to Deal’s Gap next summer. We rode this section again yesterday, and it was a nice ride. The temps were in the low 70s, so we weren’t bundled up in a bunch of extra gear to deal with. A, T, and M all went with us, and it was nice riding with them. DH hasn’t been able to ride with T all summer, and M hasn’t ridden with DH since the wreck, so the 3 of them took off for a longer cruise around the upstate after we finished up on the mountain.

I would love to hit 107 (the NC side) today, but we’re in serious need of a new front tire. It looks like I’ll be ordering one tomorrow when I get paid if I want to ride any next weekend. Of course we’ll ride all winter, but it’s just so nice not having to pile on all of our bulky winter gear right now. This time last year I was decked out in my thermal suit.