Pisgah Podcast

If you’ve been around western NC trails frequently enough, theres a strong chance you’ve caught Shanna Powell ripping around having fun in her cat ears and fairy wings. Drew caught up with Shanna to find out more about her path to bike riding, making drive train parts and pushing ladies to shred. If you ever thought you were bonking cause you saw a cat fairy shredding pisgah but realized it was Shanna, go ahead and click subscribe!

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Pisgah Area SORBA recently brought on Natalie Narburgh as the executive director so we got her and president Craig Ruhland on the mic to give us a little more behind the scenes look and sort of a how its made on the club, what they have going on and whats in store for the future of the organization. Have you ever wondered how the Pisgah Area SORBA sausage was made then go ahead and click subscribe!

Following up from last episode on Rocky Knob’s history, we have a gathering of Boone locals to celebrate the opening of RKP’s newest trail Jumbo Shrimp, a blue “back country” descent off the top of the mountain. We caught up with some of the shredders and shakers of the high country scene to hear some words. Kristian Jackson guides us through as Moto Mike of Teratek Trails gives us a little of his backstory on the park, Shrimper graces us with his eloquent vocabulary and we grab some sounds from locals. Are you tired of this aggro rain like we are? Then go ahead and click subscribe!

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We flash it back to an older podcast project that Mangler did a few years ago with trail boss Kristian Jackson on Rocky Knob Mountain Bike Park. Rocky Knob opened up a new trail recently so we wanted to share this older podcast to get people up to speed on some of the backstory before our episode on this new trail opening. If you went to Rocky Knob and were surprised at all the rocks then go ahead and click subscribe!

The trails are open! Phase one of the Old Fort trails have opened, called The Gateway, its the first introductory part of the system to have trails for all. We had a super secret guest reporter cover this opening for us, so HUGE thanks to Adam Hobbs. Are you as happy as we are that the Old fort trails are finally up and running? Then go ahead and click subscribe!

The Downhill Southeast series wraps up the season this weekend at Beech Mountain Resort. There's a lot of tight races for season champs so we got the DHSE emcee and past guest, Trill Will on our mic to talk some details on how things are shaking up and shaping up for this weekends race. Have you ever placed well in a race series just because you kept showing up? Then go ahead and put that participation trophy on the mantle with pride! click subscribe!

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We got a ton of rain this week while we’ve been cooped up inside and yes it has been dry, but let's point it to those better draining trails for a few days first. The Mortimer project has been one of those “other Pisgah” projects we hear about but don’t really get much follow up on after the fact. So we ventured over to Mortimer campground area to link up with Kristian Jackson to get the deets on the project and the newly reopened trail, Schoolhouse. If you’ve ever gotten both pedals stuck inside of a pisgah ditch then go ahead and click subscribe!

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After a few busy weeks we have the berm park episode featuring Seth's bike hacks, Eric Porter and Peter Mills of Elevated Trail Design along with some follow up questions with Arrie from last weeks episode to fill in some details on Luv Trails. Lots of cool things happening in the near future and more to come. If you have already seen a few berm park go-pro pov’s on youtube then go ahead and click subscribe!

Arrie Rossouw and Hugh Moran from Luv trails sat down with us to give us the details on their new micro localized trail donation platform, LuvTrails. Ride wherever, use your strava and with a predetermined amount pledged per mile, you can give back to those that brought you that fun ride. If you ever meant to donate to your local trail club but forgot to then go ahead and click subscribe!

https://www.trail.care