ScruffyCat and ScrappyKitty send mountain bikers on a 100-mile tour of Knoxville's trails Saturday
A Darkhorse Race Productions adventure that links every trail in town into one huge day, with a 50-mile sampler and a 25-mile tour of the Urban Wilderness for the sensible. Then a bonfire.
- When
- Sat Oct 17 · a social hair-of-the-cat ride Sunday
- Start
- 3000 McClure Lane
- Routes
- ScruffyCat 100 miles · ScrappyKitty 50 · SuperKitten 25
- Format
- Self-supported · GPX routes and maps provided · no marked course, no aid stations
- After
- Snacks, drinks, home-cooked food and a bonfire
- Register
- bikereg.com · the organizers need a headcount for the food
- Weather
- Sunny and 62 · 40 at the start
ScruffyCat and ScrappyKitty is a Knoxville mountain bike adventure put on by Darkhorse Race Productions on Saturday, October 17, and the Appalachian Mountain Bike Club's listing of it asks the right question first: is it a party, a challenge, an adventure? That's up to you. What is promised is a proper tour of Knoxville's Urban Wilderness, the dirty south, and beyond, and a party with bike friends into the night.
Three cats
The ScruffyCat was born of the idea of riding all the Knoxville trails in one route, and it happens to come out at about a hundred miles, new trail to old goat paths, linked by the best road connections through town. The ScrappyKitty is the fifty-mile sampler. The SuperKitten, twenty-five miles, is a tour of the Urban Wilderness highlights, created for younger cats or, as the listing says, the most sensible sorts. None of it is a marked course with aid stations: riders are self-sufficient, with GPX routes, maps for the tricky spots, a list of water stops and a good chance of trail magic.
The practical part
It starts from 3000 McClure Lane, and the finish is snacks, drinks, home-cooked food and a bonfire, with a social ride on Sunday to the one area of trail the hundred-miler misses. Start times and the rest of the details go out by email to people who register, and the organizers ask for that registration soon because the food is bought by headcount. Saturday is sunny and 62 with a 40-degree start, which is about perfect for a long day on a bike. If you are hiking Saturday, expect riders on every trail in the system.
