Asheville re-cap

Asheville is a neat small city (town) in North Carolina. A lot of care free people live there. The place has seven bike shops. Liberty bikes is the place we rented the house for the weekend. It's the only private property inside Bent Creek experimental forest, you actually have to open the forest gate to get to the house. Talk about the gate, we stopped at the bike shop to pick up the keys and drove to the house and I made Ray take the wrong turn at the Blue Ridge parkway and we drove about five miles before we could find a spot to turn around. The gate had a 4 number combination that you needed to line up to open it. None of us could open it. Lucky us there was a guy there pulling a trailer with back hoe and had a forest service key and opened the gate for us. We just left it open for the rest of the weekend. Two days later I decided to take a look at the papers that were inside the envelope with the keys and guess what, they had changed the combination to the lock. The e-mail they sent me had a different combination. Good thing I read it because the forest service guy locked the gate. The place has everything you need for a great vacation, and with no man made lights shinning the stars looked beautiful.
Friday we went to Pisgah to ride and was I in pain the whole ride, we rode for 3 hours and I could not get in any type of rithym. 30 minutes into the ride I was already thinking about going back. It was a suffer fest for me. Bruce Ray and Randy rode great, specially Bruce with his single speed, that guy can ride. Try riding a single speed off road and you'll know what I mean.
Saturday was a better day I was able to stay with the group felt great and the climbing was excellent. Bruce two join us for the Saturday ride. Just in case you are wondering, there's two Bruces. Dupont forest is a great place to ride, lots of waterfalls and great trails. The highlight of my weekend was walking under the waterfall. To get there we rode up on the dry side of the waterfall on this huge piece of granite rock. The second highlight was the last mile, mile and a half, just single track weaving in and out of the woods on a trail that had no roots or rocks on it. 5 of us separated by no more that 2-5 feet flying down the mountain and getting horizontal on the berms wohoooo, what a ride I would have gone back up the mountain to do it again.
Sunday we got up early and went for 1 1/2 hour ride and it was cold, low 30's to start but we had another great ride. Overall we put in a solid 8 hours for the weekend. We are already planning to go back in the fall. Kenny rode the gravel roads and the Blue Ridge parkway since he can't ride off road for a while until his clavicle heals. He had a great time also, Henry kept him company most of the time although I know he would have prefer to hit the trails too. Next fall my good friend, next fall.
Here's acouple more short videos.