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To: Think4Yourself who wrote (49817)	3/8/2006 6:49:55 PM
From: BWAC	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

<Isn't Mt. Mitchell the highest Mountain East of the rockies?> yes

To: Think4Yourself who wrote (49817)	3/8/2006 10:02:47 PM
From: GraceZ	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

*OT** I know a lot of bikers who have done that Mt. Michell ride. The one remark I remember is that guys were throwing their empty gel packs on the road. I never did it, I've been up there in April when there was hoar frost everywhere. I did do the 222 Skyline Drive bike ride from Front Royal to Waynesboro (and back again) in two days, one year back when I was a serious cyclist. I put the patch I won on the knee brace I had to wear for almost two years after that ride. The first 22 miles are an almost uninterrupted up except for one 1/2 and 3/4 mile down. The views on the climb up are spectacular and if you didn't feel like puking, you'd really enjoy them. On the initial climb I can remember wondering how embarrassing could it be to turn around and ride back down as opposed to the pain and suffering I was about to endure throughout the rest of the ride. Before I did the ride, a friend who had ridden on Skyline Drive before tried to talk me out of it, he said, "It's all up hill, Grace." I said, "It can't ALL be up hill, it has to be half up hill and half down hill." Then he said, "But the down hills go so fast that you spend almost all your time going up hill." He was right. The down hills were so fast that you had to be careful about using your brakes too much because people had been known to blow up their tires by over heating the rims. So you'd be trying to not use them all the while trying not to sneak too many peeks at the speedometer. I think I topped out close to 50 mph. You'd come around a hairpin curve and the whole bike would jump sideways from the cross wind. It got so cold on the down hills that you started wishing for the up hill to start again. Some of my old riding buddies still do Skyline Drive, but instead of two days they do the whole 222 in one long day. These would be the same animals who do Mt. Michell.