Ep. 28 - Bikepacking Summit Series - Kate Gates
Bikes or Death
Patrick Farnsworth
4.8 • 563 Ratings
🗓️ 12 November 2019
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Kate Gates is one of the owners of Mulberry Gap Mountain Bike Getaway in Ellijay, GA, the venue for this year's Bikepacking Summit. Their property is located in the southern Appalachian Mountains of northwest Georgia and is surrounded by National Forest, gravel roads, and cycling friendly trails. It wouldn't be a stretch to say that their facility is an oasis for cyclists and outdoors people.
The proprietors of this family owned and operated business are a large part of what makes Mulberry Gap so special. This is very much a family business. Grandmas are LITERALLY in the kitchen whipping up some of the best homemade southern comfort food your hungry little heart desires. I would be remiss if I didn't mention the coffee and cold beer as both are a necessity to most.
Their hospitality neither starts nor ends with the food, but it's a good place to get your attention. The true magic of the place comes from the top down. Everyone who runs this facility loves what they do, the community they do it for, and the people involved on an individual level. Just add awesome cyclists and hot damn you've got yourself a party!
Thank you Kate and Andrew Gates (and their families) for hosting such a great event and making each of us feel welcome in your home.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello friends and welcome to the Bikes or Death podcast. My name is Patrick and I'm your host. |
| 0:05.2 | And this is the show that talks about bikepacking, adventuring, and the cool people who participate. |
| 0:10.7 | Today's guest is Kate Gates, who is one of the owners of Mulberry Gap in Elijah, Georgia. |
| 0:17.3 | I'm saying that wrong, I know, and she'll correct me later in the podcast. |
| 0:22.1 | We sat down during the bikepacking summit, snuck her away. It was a very, very, very busy weekend for her |
| 0:29.8 | and her husband, Andrew. Andrew wasn't able to join because, like I said, he was busy, but I did |
| 0:36.0 | have a great chat with Kate really love everything |
| 0:42.5 | that they have going on there how they're accommodating the the cyclists the |
| 0:47.8 | mountain bikers and the bike packers and how they really are providing a huge |
| 0:52.7 | service and a resource to people who want to recreate |
| 0:55.0 | on their bike in that part of the world. We have a great conversation. She is a lot of fun, |
| 1:01.2 | and I think you are going to enjoy it. But before we get to the episode, just a couple |
| 1:05.5 | quick things in the way of housekeeping. First, the Bikes or Death van drive is still going strong. We are |
| 1:14.9 | about to hit $1,000 worth of donations. Thank you so much to everybody who has donated. And to |
| 1:22.5 | sweet in the pot, I reached out to some friends in the industry and asked if they would be willing to |
| 1:27.2 | donate some items that can be |
| 1:28.6 | raffled away for the Bikes or Death van drive and a lot of them were very willing to do that. I got a lot of |
| 1:35.8 | really neat stuff. I'm going to be posting all of them on Instagram. I've kind of been trickling them out, |
| 1:40.9 | but what I need to do is like put them all in the one place all the prizes and all the |
| 1:45.9 | rules and all that official stuff but it's basically pretty simple every dollar you contribute is |
| 1:52.3 | one raft ticket I just figured that was the easiest way to do it and what I'm going to do is when |
| 1:57.5 | we hit a thousand dollars I'm going to raffle off an item and then every thousand after that and when we get to five thousand I'm going to do is when we hit $1,000, I'm going to raffle off an item and then every thousand after that. |
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