Day 3: Matt's POV

Day 3 we spent at Fort Mountain in Georgia. We stayed the night and because a certain person who will remain nameless forgot to bring his gear we all had to fit into a single tent. This paired with the nice gravel flooring led to a pleasant night's sleep. After waking up we visited the “mysterious” wall of Ft. Mountain which after many, many stone steps turned out to be a pile of rocks. If I was a geologist I'm sure I would think it was delightful. So after that we went to the park office, paid for our campsite and as well as our mountain biking permits. Overly excited to get started I led us into a ditch. After riding that out we found the entrance to what the trail marker said was a 6 mile loop. Now the thing that should be known about any riding outside of Florida is that, well, they have actual mountains and for 3 of those 6 miles you're actually coasting on downhill (for the other half you're paying for that ride with a climb). In my opinion, which seems to be shared only by myself, it was pretty sweet, you get a ton of speed on those hills and if you can manage the switchbacks without killing your breakpads its overall a nice ride. Only issue is that a lot of the turns after the drops aren't banked so if you don't stop quick enough you're going to find yourself in a tree. Definatly something I'd ride again, although my partners might not be so in interested as you'll hear their account later. I also left out that after the trail we had to ride a lot of pavement uphill which didn't win me any points either.