Wednesday, July 5, 2017

Skyline Drive and Blue Ridge Parkway by bicycle - June 2017




The plan for this trip was to ride bicycles from Front Royal, Virginia down past Asheville, North Carolina in eight days. The route followed Skyline Drive down to the Blue Ridge Parkway. We stayed in campgrounds, Airbnb houses and a few hotels.


The dates and places were:

DateFromToMiles
6/23Front RoyalBig Meadows51
6/24Big MeadowsReeds Gap67.7
6/25Reeds GapPeaks of Otter71.9
6/26Peaks of OtterTuggle Gap79.7
6/27Tuggle GapLaurel Springs82.7
6/28Laurel SpringsLittle Switzerland86
6/29Little SwitzerlandPisgah Inn74.6
6/30Pisgah InnEnd60.4

There was a total of 12 people on the ride:

1 Phil Ayliff 7 Dick Loudis
2 Cindy Ayliff 8 Terre Simpson
3 Bart Rhoades 9 Saul Pilchen
4 Mike Evanoff 10 Barbara Ahrens
5 Jessica Tinianow 11 Laura Clauser
6 Jon Broome 12 Claude Cavender

Phil organized the whole tour and, when I say organized, I mean full-on CPA organization.

The following photos are in no particular order. I stole most of them from other people.