Southeastern US trails good for MUni

I'm out of Huntsville, AL. I haven't muni'd anywhere but around Monte
Sano State Park (which is right out my back gate). Probably 50 miles
worth of trails. A good mix of fairly non-technical and level trails
on top of the mountain (basically a large mesa type of a "mountain"😉,
and good technical routes anywhere going off the mountain. Anyhow I'd
like to be apart of some southeast muni weekend or something. BTW, a
few of us are going to Fort Yargo, GA this May to take part in a 12hr
mtb race, entering as solo unicyclists. The race director is cool with
uni's so we're going for it. Check out:
http://www.dirtyspokes.com/index.php

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I used to live in the southeast and my brother still lives in the
Asheville NC area. There are plenty of places to hold a muni event in
western NC. I will pm you with contact info. I think it's a great
idea and high time we had a festival/event in the south.

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Just and updated, there may be an event coming up down here around the
beginning of May. Just to let ya'll know. I'll keep you updated.

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I love the idea of a MUni Weekend or similar in the general area of
Atlanta, or wherever works. Don't know if I could make it, but it would
be great for people who can. It doesn't matter where you live, there
are usually some good trails within an hour or two of you. Talk to the
mountain bikers and search on the Web to see what's around, then go try
it out. Stick to legal trails though.

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Yeah, there are a couple of good trails around the Atlanta area, but
none long enough or exciting enough to host a weekend ride.

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I've been talking with the event planners at the the Mountain Sport
Festival here in Asheville

Quoted message said:

www.mountainsportfestival.com

and they want to have a mountain unicycle component to their festival.
I thought it would be a perfect time to host a Southeast Muni Weekend.
There are excellent trails around the Asheville area; I'm working up
the itinerary right now. The dates are May 4-6, 2007. Have a downhill
ride on Friday and Sunday, with a morning ride/race, etc Saturday and a
demo/trials comp/ etc that afternoon at the festival grounds (or
whatever riders come up with). The trails I think would be great (which
you should be able to look up on the net) are Kitsuma, Trace Ridge,
Pilot Rock, Spencer Gap, Laurel Mtn...all in Pisgah National Forest,
and all legal. I'm looking at getting the Campground at Bentcreek
Experimental Forest for us to use. Input, suggestions, help are all
encouraged and appreciated. For those of you who think the southeast
is flat, check out Western North Carolina, it's double awesome. I've
been to Moab and California Muni Weekends and our mountains, though
smaller and a lot older, offer world class Muni riding.

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adammasters said:

I've been talking with the event planners at the the Mountain Sport
Festival here in Asheville and they want to have a mountain unicycle
component to their festival. I thought it would be a perfect time to
host a Southeast Muni Weekend. There are excellent trails around the
Asheville area; I'm working up the itinerary right now. The dates are
May 4-6, 2007. Have a downhill ride on Friday and Sunday, with a
morning ride/race, etc Saturday and a demo/trials comp/ etc that
afternoon at the festival grounds (or whatever riders come up with).
The trails I think would be great (which you should be able to look up
on the net) are Kitsuma, Trace Ridge, Pilot Rock, Spencer Gap, Laurel
Mtn...all in Pisgah National Forest, and all legal. I'm looking at
getting the Campground at Bentcreek Experimental Forest for us to use.
Input, suggestions, help are all encouraged and appreciated. For those
of you who think the southeast is flat, check out Western North
Carolina, it's double awesome. I've been to Moab and California Muni
Weekends and our mountains, though smaller and a lot older, offer world
class Muni riding.

I'm in.

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this would be *perfect* for me... because i live in ohio and that is
like... smack dab in the middle of south eastern section of the u.s.
and i also do not have the money for a flight out there

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This is great! Good to see there are others who want a ride like this.
Looks like I gotta really start practicing so I don't look like a
complete fool when I get there.

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poor, timid spirits who know neither victory nor defeat." - Theodore
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onewheelinwierdo said:

Thing #9: Do unicycles, not drugs.....

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Man, I've been waiting for this thread to pick up and so here's the
'unicycling.org roster'
(http://unicycling.org/roster/index.php?country=usa); if anything solid
does get laid out, it would be a good idea to contact riders within the
region and even on the 'UniCom map'
(http://www.unicyclist.com/forums/VBGooglemap.php).

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I wish I could go. Unfortunately I'm already committed to a 12 Hour
Mountain Bike Race (Don't worry I'm doing it muni!) the same weekend in
Fort Yargo, Georgia. Another guy from Atlanta is signed up with me and
there may possible be a relay team of unicyclists as well. Too bad I
didn't know about this earlier! But definitely next time! Hope you
all have a great time.

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the Mountain Sport Festival sounds cool, I don't have school that Friday
so that would work out great and I can bring some other riders from
around here.

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any more info about unicycling becoming a part of it? sounds like fun.

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i think everybody agrees when i say you lucky son of a [censored]

howdigetsogood said:

man i used to think scooters were totally lame, but after that 'video'
(http://www.unicyclist.com/forums/showthread.php?t=57071), oh wait
nevermind i still do.

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I've been working with the Mtn. Sport Festival and they are going to
host a unicycle trials demo Saturday afternoon, May 5th. That morning
there will be a downhill MUni race on a trail called Kitsuma, in Black
Mountain, just east of Asheville. I'll have a website up soon with
info, etc. This will be the first annual Muni fest here in the
Southeast, Asheville is an ideal location. We'll have group rides
Friday and Sunday, (and thursday and monday for those who want to stay
extra), with the competition/trials demo on Saturday. The Mtn. Sport
festival is very excited to host a unicycle event; so it's up to us to
make it happen. Once I have the web page up I'll post a link. Any
questions, email me.
[email hidden]
or post a reply.

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I'll see if there's any interest from the Santa Barbara Muni Club to get
down there. Always looking for new stuff to do.

JL

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hey uni red neck, do you think you could get udc to supply the riders
with udc t-shirts for the festival?

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iridemymuni said:

i think everybody agrees when i say you lucky son of a [censored]

howdigetsogood said:

man i used to think scooters were totally lame, but after that 'video'
(http://www.unicyclist.com/forums/showthread.php?t=57071), oh wait
nevermind i still do.

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