[CraigCreekRider]

Any of you interested in some pain and suffering with a view, the Terrapin Mountain Predicament 2, a part of the Virginia Endurance Series is this Sunday at 9 AM. This is one of my favorite ride areas and is classic big mountain riding for the East Coast.

Virginia Endurance Series

14, 25, and 41 mile rides are scheduled. The shorter 2 will be at a slow pace. I would expect the 41 mile ride to be at a fast pace. The videos on the above link are pretty accurate depictions of the territory. I would consider these advanced rides technically and you need to be in pretty good physical condition (depending on the route it starts with a 1600 or 2500 foot climb right out of the gate). If you are not feeling it you can turn around and ride downhill to the parking area in the first 8 or 10 miles.

The most up to date info is on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/#!/events/533425290022016/

I am leading the 25 mile ride that is described below as the Arcadia Up and Over:

Arcadia Up-n-over Mountain Bike Trail in Roanoke, Virginia || SINGLETRACKS.COM

It is beautiful and physically demanding old school National Forest mountain biking, no flow trails here.

 

[BikerJen]

Sorry Steve, if I weren't running the 10k on Mill Mtn Saturday, I'd be more inclined to try this one... rain check?

 

[CraigCreekRider]

Sorry Steve, if I weren't running the 10k on Mill Mtn Saturday, I'd be more inclined to try this one... rain check?

Sure Jen, as long as I can I will ride this a couple times a year.

 

[tradera]

Sunday was truly amazing. Thanks to you guys who planned and lead these awesome rides, by the way, scenery trumps the lack of flow trails by far..

 

[CraigCreekRider]

True dat Tradera.

 

[Honeybadger]

CCR, Gonna have to get up with ya on one of these rides! Wishing I could have made it, but didn't get out to ride until later that afternoon.

 

[CraigCreekRider]

CCR, Gonna have to get up with ya on one of these rides! Wishing I could have made it, but didn't get out to ride until later that afternoon.

Yea man I was hoping you would make this one. With your ride speed you could have done the 40 miler.

Good times and hard riding.

 

[Doedrums]

Brutal and beautiful. Sounds like a party.

 

[CraigCreekRider]

brutal and beautiful. Sounds like a party.

 

[Honeybadger]

I'm gonna try and make one of these leg busting rides soon for sure!

Yea man I was hoping you would make this one. With your ride speed you could have done the 40 miler.

Good times and hard riding.

 

[kapusta]

Awesome ride!!

I did the 25miler with CCR (thanks for leading, CCR). Turned out to be just a tad shorter (around 22-23 miles) with a 1/2 mile detour introduced by me being in the lead and missing a very obvious sign. You would think that going straight at a 4 way intersection would be hard to mess up..........

I was impressed at the size of the group that was doing the 42 miler. No way I had another 20 miles of that in me.

 

[CraigCreekRider]

Awesome ride!!

I did the 25miler with CCR (thanks for leading, CCR). Turned out to be just a tad shorter (around 22-23 miles) with a 1/2 mile detour introduced by me being in the lead and missing a very obvious sign. You would think that going straight at a 4 way intersection would be hard to mess up..........

I was impressed at the size of the group that was doing the 42 miler. No way I had another 20 miles of that in me.

When we got back if somebody had said we had 15-20 miles more to go I would have died.

It was the sign at the intersection that was confusing. It said to Cornelius Creek trail which was where we were going. I had only been on that trail once and had forgotten about that intersection, but will know to stay straight next time.

Good times and a great adventure ride!

 

[CraigCreekRider]

Caught on the fly photo by NMan of the ride organizer showing us how its done. From all reports this was on an incredibly technical stretch of Terrapin Mountain Trail.

 

[Doedrums]

Ouch! Looks like a gut buster. Takes some nerve to ride through a pile of rocks like that.

 

[csmo]

Hi All,

I am thinking of doing part of this this coming weekend. Any sense of what the trails are like now that things have grown in? Are they passable? Thanks!

 

[CraigCreekRider]

Hi All,

I am thinking of doing part of this this coming weekend. Any sense of what the trails are like now that things have grown in? Are they passable? Thanks!

I would think most of it is fine. If you are going over the Terrapin Mountain side that stretch of the double track horse trail between Sunset Fields and Terrapin mountain gets terribly grown over. It was higher than my head last year and very hard to roll. What is your planned route?

 

[csmo]

Thanks! I don't know the exact route yet. I was planning on taking the map here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/o31tx8aoekka1a7/VES_Terrapin_Mnt_Perdicament_14.pdf and the also brining my National Geo map(s) and seeing how far I get. But I'm open to suggestions and would love inside intel and/or company.

EDITED to include correct link

I would think most of it is fine. If you are going over the Terrapin Mountain side that stretch of the double track horse trail between Sunset Fields and Terrapin mountain gets terribly grown over. It was higher than my head last year and very hard to roll. What is your planned route?