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March 28-29: Fat Tire Weekend at Devil’s Backbone

Kyle LawrenceMarch 23, 2015May 17th, 20235 min read

This is an event from our friends on the other side of the mountain in C’ville. Charlotssville Area Mountain Bikers (CAMBC) is helping host a weekend of camping, mountain biking, and music. All proceeds benefit CAMBC!

Fat Tire People! Set your calendar for this awesome fat tire family weekend coming up, March 28-29

 

(CAMBC) has teamed up with Travis Book of the Infamous Stringdusters, Devils Backbone Brewery (DBB), and several other awesome sponsors for a weekend of Bluegrass, Beer, and Bikes, at the Devils Backbone Brewery Basecamp in Roseland, Nelson County, here.  Here’s the schedule of events so far:

Saturday March 28:

  • Intermediate guided ride at Sherando

  • Advanced guided ride up in the National Forest

  • Beginner guided ride at DBB trails @ 12:00 and 6 PM

  • Gravel road ride if there is interest

  • All rides end in time to get to DBB for the party!  Music runs from 2-5 pm at Devils Backbone, free admission

  • Stainless Klean Kanteen pint cups for sale as a fundraiser for CAMBC.  $20 each, which includes DBB beer, camping and breakfast on Sunday, and 2 raffle tickets (prizes by Klean Kanteen, Yakima, Keen, Blue Ridge Outdoors Magazine, and others!), !  $10 additional cups while they last, $5 extra raffle tickets

 

Saturday evening:

  • Ride led by Travis Book at the DBB trails, 6 pm

  • FAMILY FRIENDLY Campout right onsite at the DBB basecamp! (RSVP required, click here)

  • Dinner on your own (Devils Backbone Restaurant is a good choice)

  • Campfire!

  • Night rides!  Hot laps!

  • Good times!

Sunday, March 29:

  • Free breakfast hosted by CAMBC (RSVP required, click here)

  • Beginner guided ride at DBB trails

  • Intermediate guided ride at Sherando

  • Advanced guided ride down Whetstone Ridge, a classic Blue Ridge big mountain ride

Most Recent update from Sam Lindblom ():

Saturday:
Beginner Ride:  12 noon.  Meet at Devils Backbone Brewery parking lot, here:  DBB location.  Sean Denham and Matt Mcclleland are the ride leaders.  This will be a 1 ish hour ride on the flat trails on the Devils Backbone campus.  After the show, Travis Book will also be leading a ride, 6 pm.  Travis lives on site and built most of these trails!
Intermediate Ride:  9 am. Meet at the entrance to Sherando Lake, here:  Sherando Lake Entrance location.  Ride leaders are David Stackhouse and Derek Glass.  This ride will include significant but low grade climbing, lots of excellent single track, and some fun challenging rock gardens.  The route: up White Rock Trail to the Blue Ridge Parkway up to Slacks Overlook, Back down Slacks to Sherando Lake. 2-3 hrs. If you have fun on the Rivanna trail, Ohill, and/or Walnut Creek, this ride is for you! Self supported: bring tubes, food, water, repair equipment, etc.
Advanced Ride:  9 am. Meet at the Turkey Pen trailhead on the Coal Road, Sherando, here;  Coal Road meeting location  Ride leaders are Todd Neimier and Kyle Rodland.  This ride will be a classic Sherando suffer fest.  Expect loads of climbing and some very challenging downhill.  ROCKS.  Possibilities include Torry’s Ridge, Kennedy’s Ridge, etc.  If you have been craving a big mountain ride but don’t know the good routes, this ride is for you.  Please bring plenty of food and water, at least two tubes, spare hanger, patch kit, etc.
Music!:  Travis Book of the Infamous Stringdusters will begin at about 2pm, and play until 5ish at Devils Backbone Brewery.  Kleen Canteen Stainless pint cups are $20 which includes beer.  Admission is free otherwise.  Food and such will be available via the DBB restaurant.  Raffle tickets, swag, and other fun stuff is to be had!  Join us!!
Camping:  Set up will be available anytime on Saturday.  Camping will be in a nice grassy flat area, next to your vehicle, right on the campus.  Car camping works.  PLEASE rsvp here:  Free camping and breakfast RSVP  If we don’t know you are coming, we won’t have the proper porta-johns and the right amount of food.  Do me a solid favor and hit the link, add your name.  Deadline for camping/breakfast RSVP is Thursday night.  Camping/after party will likely include: campfires, night laps on the trails, and good times for everyone.  Breakfast will be provided by CAMBC on Sunday morning.  If you don’t like  pancakes, eggs, bacon, juice, coffee, etc.  you’re out of luck!
Sunday:
Breakfast starting who knows when…, but probably 7, 8 am or so..
Beginner Ride:  10ish, possibly earlier, meet at DBB:  Ride Leaders are Joe Hoskins and Sean Denham.  This will be a variation on the same rides as Saturday.
Intermediate Ride:  departing DBB at 10ish:  Ride Leaders are David Stackhouse, Geoff Keenan, Matt Mcclelland, Bobby Casteen, and John Maine.  This ride will be a bigger ride than Saturday’s intermediate ride, but similar in terms of difficulty, at Sherando. We will sample some of the classic routes!
Advance Ride:  Ride leaders are John Lewis and Chris Hoy, departs DBB at 10ish for Whetstone Ridge. This ride is one of the more difficult but spectacular rides in the Blue Ridge. Plan on some hike a bikes, rocky chutes, a long flowing downhill, capped with a pavement/gravel climb back to the Blue Ridge Parkway. Plan for mechanicals!! This is a 4-5 hr adventure.
I hope to see a big crowd, and let me know if you have any questions. Don’t forget to RSVP (Free camping and breakfast RSVP) for the camping by Thursday. 

 

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