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Falcon Guides Mountain Biking Virginia Reviews
Mountain Biking > Mountain Bike Races > Virginia
Description
Mountain Bike Virginia explores the land whose terrain and geography are as unique and diverse as its history is rich and exciting. If you enjoy exploring remote coastal environments or the quiet backroads of Central Virginia's horse and wine country, or if you prefer hurtling down white-knuckled descents, crossing over deep river gorges, and cycling past waterfalls, wildlife, and rolling pastures, then Virginia is the place to be and this book is for you. Throughout its pages, Mountain Bike Virginia describes more than 50 of the state's greatest mountain bike rides, from sea level along the dunes at False Cape to nearly 6,000 feet atop the wind-beaten summits of Virginia's highest peaks.
This guide contains exhaustive and comprehensive trail descriptions from beginner to advanced, GPS-quality, digitally designed relief maps detailing each ride, accurate route profiles showing the ups and downs of each ride, detailed directions to get bikers to the ride without getting them lost and detailed mile-by-mile directional cues, difficulty ratings, elevation gain, trail contacts, and much more.
Mountain Bike Virginia explores the land whose terrain and geography are as unique and diverse as its history is rich and exciting. If you enjoy exploring remote coastal environments or the quiet backroads of Central Virginia's horse and wine country, or if you prefer hurtling down white-knuckled descents, crossing over deep river gorges, and cycling past waterfalls, wildlife, and rolling pastures, then Virginia is the place to be and this book is for you. Throughout its pages, Mountain Bike Virginia describes more than 50 of the state's greatest mountain bike rides, from sea level along the dunes at False Cape to nearly 6,000 feet atop the wind-beaten summits of Virginia's highest peaks.
This guide contains exhaustive and comprehensive trail descriptions from beginner to advanced, GPS-quality, digitally designed relief maps detailing each ride, accurate route profiles showing the ups and downs of each ride, detailed directions to get bikers to the ride without getting them lost and detailed mile-by-mile directional cues, difficulty ratings, elevation gain, trail contacts, and much more.
Reviews
Pros: Good breakdown of regions of VA and the park/trail descriptions. Good directions to each location as well.
Cons: Missing some trails I would expect to be in there or atleast in the Honorable Mentions section.
Recommendation: Decent reference, can always come in handy although these and other books can get outdated as trail work is done.
Cons: Missing some trails I would expect to be in there or atleast in the Honorable Mentions section.
Recommendation: Decent reference, can always come in handy although these and other books can get outdated as trail work is done.
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Cons: The copyright is from 2003, would be nice to see an updated version with other trails that have been added since then.
Recommendation: Good reference book to keep on hand. Found other trails in my region of VA I plan to go on this summer and fall. I recommend it...even more if it becomes updated.