Snipes Mountain

“I didn't see one other person on this ride. It gets remote quickly, and once you're past the first few miles you're on your own. You'll be challenged on a gravel bike. There are some soft and very difficult surfaces at times, loose stuff and chunk that'll make you work. I was on a 29 x 2.6 tire and glad to have the volume. Anything skinnier and I think I would've been fighting it the whole way. The vast majority is some really nice long, fast, smooth sections where you can settle in and just go. Maybe domestic, but still Champagne.”