Test Flight
Last weekend, Emma and I decided to take our first bikepacking trip. We have the gear, we got decent weather, and we found a one night, 100 mile route in the Croatan National Forest. That's about where things stopped going in our favor. I found this great resource for bikepacking that has trips all over the world, including the Southeast. We wanted to pick a trip that was close to Raleigh so we could do it in a weekend. The mountains were too cold, so we headed out East where it looked like it was going to be warmer. The Neusiok Trail is out that way, which is a 20 mile section of the Mountain to Sea Trail through the National Forest, and the trip on bikepacking.com included the Neusiok in the route. I was excited to see the trail as I heard it was a good place to hike when the weather is cold. I called the Ranger lodge to check about the trail bed and turns out the Neusiok is closed. Womp. I found a reroute on some gravel roads and w...