Thursday, August 2, 2007

Day 51, 7/19/07, Elkhorn City, KY to Rosedale, VA, 48 miles

Had about 5 miles from Elkhorn City to the KY/VA state line...
We made it to Virginia, the final state! We did lots of climbing today now that we're reached the "older" Appalachains, a conservative estimate is ~4580 feet, it makes today the day with the most feet per mile of the entire trip (about 95 ft climbed/mile). It was a tough day, and at the end we face a nice headwind and plenty of traffic outside of Rosedale. We climbed over a mountain named "Big A", which I thought was quite funny, we appropriately added some more letters as we were climbing up. We didn't have a place to stay here either and found another Methodist church, a very small but pretty church. A thunderstorm rolled in that evening and I'm glad I was finished riding and had a waterproof place to sleep.

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