thirdgenlxi Posted September 2, 2012 Report Share Posted September 2, 2012 Not too many pics today as we got a late start since I had to work this morning. But Scott and I still got out and did some riding and one of our crazy adventure hikes too. We headed up NC 226A (a favorite for all) up to the Blue Ridge Parkway and took that over to Mount Mitchell State park. Walked up to the summit (highest point this side of the Mississippi) and hung out there for a bit...... thought this was kind of a cool pic, lol. It wasn't long before we were completely engulfed and couldn't see much of anythingNice and clear when we got up there, but it's been crazy weather all dayThen went down to the Craggy Gardens visitors center again to check out one of the other trails. There's supposed to be a 60' waterfall in the woods that we wanted to find. Still foggy.... everywhere you went just couldn't get out of itSo long story short.... the markings on the trails were terrible. For the most part, there was none.... and there were multiple trails and nothing telling you which one went where or how far to anything. So we ended up deep in the woods, never did find the waterfall, and the sun was setting fast. As we were trying to make our way out walking through thick woods, we come around a corner and there's a clearing with a perfect view along the trail.... had to snap a pic then back into thick woods where we'd continue to get lost, lolWe were on the trail we thought went back to one of the parking lots, it got real close and we could hear cars and bikes going by not too far away, but it kept taking us east, parallel with the BRP. It was getting to be close to 8:30 pm and getting dark FAST, we were both getting kinda nervous and had to get out and this trail just kept going and going, and started going down again, so we had to choice but to blaze our own trail through the non-traveled woods straight in the direction we knew we needed to be going (thanks to a GPS and compass on my phone for that, lol). Up a steep steep hill for a good ways grabbing onto anything we could get ahold of, and finally popped out in a random spot on the BRP, where it was an easy walk back to the parking lot where our bikes wereThen the ride home... talk about nerve racking, lol. Rain + heavy fog + pitch black + extremely twisty roads = NOT fun, lol. Especially with a smoke visor, haha (oops!). So needless to say I was down to about 20 mph in a few spots... I simply couldn't see anything, and had to ride with my visor open and could still barely see the yellow lines on the road. Finally made it home... a little wet but oh well..... definitely an adventure of a day for sure, lolProbably won't be doing much riding tomorrow as I have to track prep my bike and get headed up to Virginia tomorrow afternoon for the trackday at VIR monday 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buildit Posted September 2, 2012 Report Share Posted September 2, 2012 Rain + Fog + cloud banks all part of why it's called the Smokies and why it is an adventure to ride there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kawi kid Posted September 2, 2012 Report Share Posted September 2, 2012 Where is the apocalypse part? I feel like I just lost trust in you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BadTrainDriver Posted September 2, 2012 Report Share Posted September 2, 2012 I ran into that fog once on the BRP...couldn't see SHIT! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wht_scorpion Posted September 2, 2012 Report Share Posted September 2, 2012 Ride on 60 along the muskingum river early morning foggy really bad Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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