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Posted by Tris

Update: Our plan is to head up to Camp Roosevelt on Saturday morning and start the SkyMass ride no later than 11AM from Camp Roosevelt.  If you want to join us, please be there in time to ride by 11.  We will then do Kennedy Peak on Sunday if the weather permits.  Feel free to just join us for SkyMass is you don’t want to do a whole weekend.  You could also just join us for Kennedy Peak by meeting us at Camp Roosevelt around 9 or so on Sunday.  But if the weather forecast gets much worse for Sunday, the ride might not happen, and I will have no way of contacting anyone to let them know.   

If you are thinking of coming on one or both rides, please let me know via email by 10 PM tonight (Friday).  I can get you directions if you need them. 

When: May 20-21, 2006

Where: George Washington National Forest/Shenandoah National Park–based at Camp Roosevelt, a first-come-first-serve campground in George Washington National Forest.

What: Training ride double header, mountain and road

Weather Note: This will likely be cancelled if the weather is supposed to suck. Please let me know if you plan to come so that I can make sure to let you know if we cancel. 

Description: Join Mike, Jonathan and me at Camp Roosevelt in George Washington National Forest for a biking weekend.  Our plan is to ride Kennedy Peak on Saturday and SkyMass on Sunday.  We will base both rides out of Camp Roosevelt, a fairly rustic campground in George Washington National Forest.  If the campground fills up, there are lots of backcountry sites along the fire roads in the area as well.  But if folks come in on Friday night or early Saturday, we should be able to get at least a couple of campsites at Camp Roosevelt.

Following SkyMass on Sunday we plan to grill some food up before heading back to the DC area. (And of course we will be cooking up something on Saturday night as well.)  We will have a couple of grills, so bring along some grillable items.  We will have some to share as well.

I will post directions to Camp Roosevelt later, as well as better ride descriptions.

Kennedy Peak: About 14 miles, beginning with a road climb uphill, then onto a single track ridge, some good rock gardens along the ridge, then a fun downhill back to the road, then along the road back to Camp Roosevelt.  If people want more riding after that, then another trip up the road climb to come down a “fun” downhill Mike has been wanting to try for years.   For the really adventurous, if it is now open, Kennedy Peak can be combined with Duncan Hollow for an epic mtb ride (there was a controlled burn in Duncan Hollow a year or so ago, so I am not sure it is open).

SkyMass: this road ride incorporates Skyline Drive and Massanutten.  The full ride will be about 90 miles, leaving and returning to Camp Roosevelt, though some of us (me, anyway) will likely drive and only ride Skyline and do something more in the 60 mile range.  Regardless of length, it will incorporate a lot of climbing and descending. Please note that there is an entry fee of $8 for Skyline Drive.

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