Saturday

4th Annual Triangle Fat Tire Festival & Take A Kid Mountain Biking Day
Mountain bike celebration
10 a.m.-3 p.m.
Harris Lake County Park, New Hill

Forgive me if I’ve told this story before, but I’m telling it again. At this summer’s Huck-A-Buck race at Lake Crabtree, Steve Rogers (who would go on to win the Sport 45+ title in the TORC/Johnson Subaru summer XC series) and I were watching the boys from NC Bike Trials hop their bikes from sawhorse to picnic table to light post and back.

“I don’t know how you would even get started doing that,” I said to Steve. “I mean, how do you ‘ease’ into something like this? It’s like pole vaulting.”

There was a pause. “Actually,"Steve finally said, "I pole vaulted in college.”

Thursday commences a month-long celebration of our statewide trail-in-progress, the Mountains-to-Sea Trail. To find out what all is planned for the tribute, TIONC caught up this morning with Friends of the MST Executive Director Kate Dixon. We’ll share what all is going on with Mountains-to-Sea Trail Month as October unfolds, but thought we’d go ahead and share our conversation about the MST through the Triangle, which was especially encouraging.