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Hi everybody, welcome to this special edition of the single tracks podcast.

I'm your host and narrator for today, Aaron Chamberlain.

This episode is a little different from many we've done before.

Instead of talking about gear, trails, or interviewing someone, this is more like an audio diary.

About a week ago, I joined 30 or so other riders on the Kohutta Cat bikepacking route.

This route was put together by Daniel Jesse. He's an Atlanta native.

He designed the route as an alternative to the popular Transnort Georgia route.

It's a 290-mile figure figure 8 loop through North Georgia and extreme

western Tennessee. It's an extremely tough ride through surprisingly remote regions. About 60%

of the route is gravel, 15% is single track, and the remaining 25% is on pavement. All of it is hard. I finished with some 36,000 feet

of climbing. Initially, I plan to do the route over four days and average about 75 miles per day,

but you never really know how things are going to go until you're out there. I ended up pushing

pretty hard and finished the route in 68 hours,

with 39 hours of that being ride time. Day one was probably the hardest in terms of the route

itself with about 14,000 feet of climbing and 95 miles to make it to Thunder Rock Campground in Tennessee.

Day two was no picnic, but the climbs weren't as tough as day one. Obviously,

day three was a major physical and mental challenge. Some of the steepest grades of the entire route

came in the last 30 miles from Blue Ridge back to the finish at Mulberry Gap outside LJ, Georgia.

At this point, I had to push my bike up any hill, and as I found out, it takes a really

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