Big South Fork Ride

[Smokinjoe-VRCCDS#0005]

Hooked up with a couple ridin' buds Larry and John this morning for a ride up through The Big South Fork .

The Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area preserves the Big South Fork of the Cumberland River and its tributaries in northeastern Tennessee and southeastern Kentucky. In addition, the former mining community of Blue Heron is preserved and interpreted via signage.
The Big South Fork region contains one of the highest concentrations of natural bridges in the eastern United States and the area is located in parts of Scott, Fentress, Pickett, and Morgan counties in Tennessee, and McCreary County in Kentucky




The Big South Fork begins in Tennessee at the confluence of the New River and the Clear Fork at the southern end of the Big South Fork National Recreation Area near an oil field developed by petroleum interests. It is downstream from extensive coal deposits. This confluence occurs approximately 4 miles northwest of the U.S. Highway 27 bridge over the New River, in Scott County, Tennessee. From here, the river runs roughly north. This area is extremely remote. The river flows through a deep gorge which has been eroded through sandstone of the Pennsylvanian Period. A large island, unsurprisingly called "Big Island", is located fairly near the Kentucky state line. Many rapids features have names by which they are well known in the whitewater community. The stream enters McCreary County, Kentucky.









All the years we've done this same ride today was the first time I walked down to the old river bridge.




Ladies and Gentleman meet the new member of the Wallenda family Larry " Wallenda " Harbor ... We was both lucky we crossed that without getting a broken leg or worse .





The " Money Shot " taken this morning in my hometown of Clinton on The Clinch River in The Great State Of Tennessee.

[The emperor has no clothes]

  looks like it was a nice ride

[Gavin_Sons]

 

[msb]

Beautitul pictures, and I always enjoy your descriptions and narratives of the areas you ride. Tennessee was one place I was hoping to swing through this past June on my way home from WV,  just couldn't take the couple extra days to do so. Planning to fly down next year and rent a bike or car with the wife to see the sights

[Serk]

Walking across that bridge looks easy...

...for a real challenge, ya' should ride across it!

Thanks for taking us along!