2 feet of powder.
North Carolina in November.
One of these things is not like the others.
The forecast for snow earlier in the week got us all excited.
This amount of snow would get us excited any time of year.
After all, we’ve ridden street and pseudo “backcountry” with less.
Halloween of Franklin St. Chapel Hill, NC – 30,000 people
Getting up the next morning was hard.
But pictures of snow from family in the mountains urged us forward.
A few inches of snow in Asheville usually means a lot more at higher elevations.
But as we drove deeper into the mountains, there was less and less snow.
We started getting nervous that the forecasts were wrong and that our plan would fall apart.
We changed our plan to hike a bald on the TN/NC border.
As we made our final push west, we found the snow.
After a few miles on this road, we reached our trail head.
Stoke was high when we finally got out of the car.
The wind above the tree line blew the snow into thigh-deep drifts, but we made it.
We got a nice powder run on the way down and rode all the way to the car.
Dance party at the car.
Mission = Great Success!
Words & Photos: David Stanley // @dstanley2
