Pisgah Mountain Bike Adventures

16/01/2025

What it's like to ride the challenge.

On the last day of the year I went big! For the fourth year out of the past five, I completed the Strava Challenge. This challenge is an end of the year banger, where you have to ride 5…

24/12/2024

Come ride some miles with me for House to Old Fort and back. Who's in? Could use the company.

12/12/2024

What an amazing race at The Old Fort Endurance Challenge!! Collectively, the biking and running community raised $956,000 and growing!! I rode 50 miles, and was 11th out of 25 in the 12 hour event even though I had a bad cold all week. I was proud of the effort and dug deep even though I had been sick all week. I stopped when my body said it was time, and that was huge for me. The fundraiser aspect of this challenge was so amazing. Combining runners and bikers together was such an inspiring format. Fun was had all around, and the funds from the race will go directly to families in Old Fort who lost their homes during Thanks and for hosting such a cool event! More please.

03/11/2024

Pretty nice Brown Pow out there right now! Getting some training miles in for The Old Fort Strong Endurance Festival December 7th. The event is a fundraiser for 50 families directly impacted by Hurricane Helene that suffered loss or damage to their homes. I will be doing the 12 Hour ride and am raising money to help these families. Feel free to donate on my donation page link in the bio on Instagram.
Together, as a community we can ride with a purpose to help those directly affected by the storm. Thanks for your support and see you in December.

20/10/2024

Pisgah Magic in the air today. Cove Creek to Long Branch to Lower Butter was on the menu and all was clear. One tree on Long and one on Searcy Creek Rd was it. Thanks to all the trail volunteers and sawyers that were busy this weekend all over the forest.

19/10/2024

Pisgah Proper was showing off today. On Friday, our beloved Pisgah National Forest opened back up again for recreation. The trail faries came out and cleared the whole Butter Gap loop out of the Fish Hatchery. Literally there were only 2 minor trees on Searcy Rd in the entire 16 mile loop. It was running so smooth and fast with a nice layer of fresh leaves for some perfect mid Fall conditions. The leaves were so beautiful and the Fall temps were about as good as it gets. Thank you to the volunteer sawyers that were very busy today doing their thing on the many trees down in the forest after . I heard many places got some love today including Cove Creek, Avery, Buckhorn, Club, Boyd Branch, Explorer, Spencer, part of Ingles Field, part of Trace, and others. It will take some time and work, but we will be back at it really soon. Hope you had a good day and got into some fun in the woods.

15/10/2024

Hope and Resilience: Please consider donating to my fundraising efforts for the Tanawha Adventures Old Fort Strong Endurance Festival 12 hour Mountain Bike Race in December at Camp Grier. I have not raced in a few years, and it will be a big challenge. Riding into the night in December will be fun and a unique challenge in itself. Money will go directly to the people in Old Fort who lost homes or businesses, and will help them to rebuild. Help me to be a symbol of resilience and hope in these challenging times. Thanks for the support. Consider donating to my race fundraiser at:
https://runsignup.com/pisgahproud

13/10/2024

Self Care. For two weeks we have been digging out from the aftermath of and it has been pretty overwhelming mentally and taxing on the brain. Coming back to the war zone every evening in Swannanoa breaks my heart for all the destruction and loss. Since Pisgah Proper is still closed, we headed West for some trail therapy to the🔥Fire Mountain trails in Cherokee. Perfect temps, beautiful Fall colors poppin, and perfect dirt makes for a pretty good Sunday. More please.

05/10/2024

Hope and a smiling face. This pic is from our last tour before the devastating Hurricane Helene that has left a path of destruction and despair in many parts of Western North Carolina. I live in Swannanoa, one of the many hard hit areas. People have lost everything: homes, businesses, pets, everything, including many lost lives. Infrastructure like bridges, roads, water and power lines all around are destroyed. Debris is everywhere. My wife and I still are without power and water and we had flooding in our 1st floor of the house. We are surviving and the community is rallying together to help everyone. I have seen so much good in the midst of all the terror, so I wanted to post a pic of a smiling kid on bikes to pass along Hope and Resilience to others. It is probably best to not come to our area for recreation for many months. I am sure the trails are toast in many areas. Thank you to all the help that has poured in from all over the country. Thank you to everyone who has given us food and water, and all the workers and first responders trying to get our community back to functioning. Please also think of my good friend and coach Steve who lost his whole gym in Asheville to flooding. And please think of us on your next ride and keep sending out hope and smiles to everyone. Stay strong everyone.

07/09/2024

Hitting up the classics in The Motherland today was pretty special. It was fun watching the top 5 guys flying down Avery Creek road in Monster Cross Race, and the weather was absolutely perfect. Fall 🍁 is in the air, and the woods and mountains were speaking tales of change and wonder to come.

01/08/2024

A few shots from Davis, WV, Dupont, and Pisgah Proper from the last week of summer vacation. Teacher life is pretty good in the summer. Thanks for the second shot in Dupont.

06/07/2024

are coming in hot. Can't wait for the 4 new trails being built as we speak in Grandfather Ranger District at Gateway Trails and on Newberry Creek right now. Old Fort is blowing up! Catch the wave. 🌊 📸 by John Greene

03/07/2024

Fun gravel tour in The Pisgah yesterday! This client from Colorado wanted lots of climbs, views and waterfalls to get ready for in a couple of weeks, and Pisgah delivered.

26/06/2024

40 feet of new hand built bench cut trail on the Newberry Creek reroute today. We had a motivated crew of 5 from
and dug a new switchback, installed 1 locust log border after the switchback, staged 2 other locust logs on the trail for later, and bench cut another 30 foot of trail connecting back to the old trail. We used some really cool, old school cant hook tools to move the logs. Those things were really cool and had old engravings from the forest service and old weathered metal hooks and clasps. The plan is to open Newberry Creek to bikes when the reroute is complete to provide an alternate route to Heartbreak Ridge off Curtis Creek and the Parkway. What a day! I am beat.

04/05/2024

New trails in The Pisgah! Thanks so much to everyone involved in this huge project! It takes a village. The collaborations between the Forest Service, outdoor community partners, trail builders, trail advocacy groups, local volunteers, and so many others is nothing short of amazing! A project like this is truly a model of how the community and government agencies, along with outdoor recreation grants, can come together to create recreation opportunities for so many people and future generations. Thanks for your tireless vision for new trails the past few years, Jason for advocating for these new trail connections and so much more, Lisa at the Forest Service for your amazing energy and enthusiasm for leading this project, thanks so much Trase for your artistic vision of creating fun trails in WNC, thank you for all your many hours building and sustaining so many trails all over the area, thank you to all the volunteers that gave of their time to move dirt, and thanks to any other person involved in this monumental project. Without partnerships, none of this would be possible. Get involved in the local trail community when you can, advocate and support for sustainable recreation, and most of all get out and play! Old Fort Bike Shop McHone Performance Training

09/03/2024

Winter tours in the Pisgah are pretty fun. This client was all smiles and wanted to push himself on some of our signature tech for a multi day tour during a short trip to the area. Pisgah always delivers.

10/02/2024

Drains are all cleaned and resurfaced on the West side of Heartbreak/Star Gap Trail all the way to Star Gap!! We had a solid and motivated crew of 9 from work the 2 miles up to Star Gap today. This work is helping to prep for the new Lower Heartbreak trail addition coming soon by . Star Gap will be the main access trail for the new Heartbreak extension, so it was really cool to be a part of this process by giving Star Gap some love. We can't wait to ride the new trail this Spring!! .