OUTSIDE LIFE SUMMER 2018 DEPARTMENTS FEATURES 9 16 Float the Roanoke: From the Editor You'll be Surprised Retro resort. Our backyard river has more to offer than you might have expected. 10 The Nutcase 52 weeks a year. 23 Easy Play: Discover ON THE COVER Wythe and Smyth Counties 12 QuickStrides News & Notes. Heather Rousseau photographed Michelle Scarfe, a coach with the Just the Right Gear junior mountain biking teams, as she encourages young rider Grahm Copeland in his navigaiton of tree roots on the way up a hill. Hikes and bikes, zips and climbs, and much more. 42 On the Road 30 Don't Take the Va. 311, Salem to Paint Bank. Grayson Highlands for Granted Clear Brook Winchester A photo appreciation. Front Royal 34 Who Wants to Finish Luray Last? The Sweep! Sweepers have their own satisfactions. 38 KEY = Appalachian Trail = Blue Ridge Parkway = state highways = interstate CRAIG = counties Roanoke = cities Harrisonburg Staunton I Scream . . . Great outdoor places to earn your frozen pleasure. Clifton Forge Covington Lexington Buena Vista Salem Bedford Lynchburg Blacksburg Bluefield Rocky Gap Pulaski Roanoke Christiansburg Radford Rocky Mount Wytheville Norton Floyd Big Stone Gap Marion PHILPOTT LAKE Abingdon Bristol 4 Waynesboro Summer 2018 \\ LifeOutside Magazine Galax Damascus Independence Martinsville Lambsburg Danville Appomatox Charlottesville