Current Riding Conditions in the Blue Ridge & Smoky Mountains

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Last Update: 9:00 AM; Tuesday; March 9, 2010

Blue Ridge Parkway is essentially closed to through traffic in NC

October 18, 2009: I-40 is expected to be closed until April 2010, in both directions from Exit 3 to Exit 20 in NC due to a massive Rockslide.

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Great Smoky Mountains National Park
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- Tuesday Morning -

POOR Riding Conditions continue.
This has been the worst Winter Riding season for at least 20 years.
The usual stings of 50+ degree afternoons have been all but non-exsistant...until NOW!

Afternoon highs around 60 along with an increasing chance of rain each day through Friday.
Hopefully some of this rain will be heavy enough to start washing away several storms worth of DOT sand-salt covering most roads.
Afternoon highs in the 50's will be with us well into next week.
Lows in the 40's through this Week.

Remember the northern mountains (around Boone) and ridges, are usually 10 - 15 degrees cooler than the southern mountains (around Asheville) and valleys.

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Details: weather map & 5 day forecast
Southern Mountains - Asheville, NC
Northern Mountains - Boone, NC
Western Mountains - Robbinsville, NC

10.9 inches of rain so far in 2010...1.7 inches above normal
62.7 inches of rain in 2009...16.3 inches ABOVE normal
35.6 inches of rain in 2008...11.4 inches BELOW normal for the year
32.3 inches of rain in 2007...14.3 inches BELOW normal for the year
46.3 inches of rain in 2006…0.2 inches BELOW normal
48.8 inches of rain in 2005…about 1.8 inches ABOVE normal
50.6 inches of rain in 2004…..5.8 inches above normal


YOU SHOULD KNOW:
CAREFUL - Patch of BROKEN PAVEMENT just south of BRP on 276 is reported to have taken down several riders

Ranger Alert - Blue Ridge Parkway Rangers seem to be paying much more attention to Riders then in years past.
Be especially careful between Asheville and Mount Pisgah


Those of you to the south, who use Cherokee Scenic Hwy.(SC Rt. 11) to get into the Mountains, be aware that the local authorities tend NOT to be biker friendly. Especially between I-85 and Walhalla, SC.

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