OK...looks like it's about 40mi from Craggy Gardens to Pisgah Inn and about that distance or less from Balsam Gap to the Inn (that's just going by the mile markers I see on the BRP map). What if we met you in Sylva and did the route you and I rode that Sunday, but go on up to Waterrock Knob? Is that too much for Friday? Or, maybe meet at Balsam Gap (where we started the ride in December) and ride to WK? That's all I can think of.....

Don't really want to do the BRP around Asheville, as it seems like it is used as a short cut and would have lots of traffic on it on a Friday afternoon.