Singletrack/MTB
Gravel/All-road
Dirt-road Touring
Fat-bike
The Delight Alone: A Bikepacking Short Film
Our friend Hannah from the Queer Cyclist YouTube channel made a lovely short film about a bikepacking trip with a few friends on the Chauga River Ramble this summer. Watch it here…
Photos by Devin Cowens (@dev_rox)
This past summer, Hannah Griggs (@queercyclist) and a couple friends from the RAR Atlanta chapter pedaled the Chauga River Ramble bikepacking route along the Blue Ridge Mountains in South Carolina. Along the way, Hannah captured footage from the ride that later became this nice short film. This expressive piece touches on the sense of vulnerability, aloneness, and delight that Hannah experiences while bikepacking in the woods. Watch it below and find more information about the route…
My respiration and inspiration,
the beating of my heart,
the passing of blood and air through my lungs,
The sniff of green leaves and dry leaves,
and of the shore and dark-color’d sea-rocks,
and of hay in the barn,
The sound of the belch’d words of my voice loos’d to the eddies of the wind,
A few light kisses, a few embraces, a reaching around of arms,
The play of shine and shade on the trees as the supple boughs wag,
The delight alone or in the rush of the streets,
or along the fields and hill-sides,
The feeling of health, the full-noon trill,
the song of me rising from bed and meeting the sun.
The Chauga river Ramble
South Carolina’s Chauga River cuts its way through the Blue Wall, a term the Cherokee reportedly gave to the Southern Blue Ridge Escarpment’s imposing prominence above the Piedmont. Across a variety of roads and trails, the Chauga River Ramble traverses the landscape carved up by the Chauga and its tributaries, offering ridgetop views, abundant waterfalls, cool swimming holes, dense forests, and riverside campsites. Find the route guide here.
Related Content
Make sure to dig into these related articles for more info...
Please keep the conversation civil, constructive, and inclusive, or your comment will be removed.
Share This
