Ride the Assault on Mt. Mitchell on your computer
Want to experience the Assault on Mount Mitchell without all the pain? Okay, so it isn’t a true test of your climbing legs, but I did create a Google Earth map of my ride. I also have a Google Map created, but it makes you go through several pages to see the entire ride. I’m providing links to both of them.
The 2009 Assault on Mount Mitchell route.
View in Google Earth | View as Google Map
Once you launch the file in Google Earth, you can click the “play” button under the “Places” section. This will start a “fly over” view of the entire Assault on Mount Mitchell route. It gets most interesting when you move onto Highway 80. You really start to get an idea of the elevations we were dealing with!
You also see that it could have been much worse. The roads hug the valleys as much as possible. Had we gone up some of those peaks around there, we would have been hurting even more. Even so, it is pretty cool to see the route along the final ridge line to the top.
The final approach to the Assault on Mt. Mitchell
Click the image for a larger view. Better yet, install Google Earth and then view it from any angle you wish. Then start training for next year to get a close up view.
Tags: Assault on Mount Mitchell, Maps
