ROANOKE, VIRGINIA

Goofy Beth
Riding the Enchanted Forest post fire
The Enchanted Forest
Hemlock Tunnel or "The Clown's Head" ?
Heading up Interstate 81 through Virginia

We are now headed toward Baltimore to visit my cousin. We thought we would break up the trip and stop in Virginia and get a bike ride in. We found a place to stay called Dixie Caverns. Not exactly ideal. I kept thinking about that T-shirt I saw that said "pedal faster I think I hear banjo music". We did, however find a pretty cool place to ride in Roanoke, Va called Carvins Cove. Trails built around Roanoke's water reservoir. We had a map. A crummy map but a map. We had a great ride anyway. Nice long climb, lots of rolling single track, and the steepest descent I've ever done. Makes the downhill at Fort Mountain look easy. We got hammered at the end of the ride by a storm and came back in soaked and covered head to toe. All in all a perfect day!