A ride to benefit Lake Logan Episcopal Center
and the Blue Ridge Parkway's
"Parks as Classrooms" program

"A whole other world ... a sanctuary for the soul"

Sooner or later you will come. Maybe for the first time, or if you're lucky, for the hundredth. You will come to the mountains of western North Carolina and the Blue Ridge Parkway. You'll come for the quiet, for the spirit, for the vitality of these sacred summits.

These mountains are beyond value - priceless. Yet today they are being threatened by development, air pollution, acid rain and other environmental hazards. On the Sacred Summits Cycling Tour, you will experience firsthand the beauty and fragility of these pristine mountain landscapes and the famous roadway that traverses them.

As a society, we cannot protect what we do not appreciate. Proceeds from the 2006 Sacred Summits Cycling tour will go directly to the Blue Ridge Parkway's "Parks As Classrooms" program and to environmental programming at the Lake Logan Center.

The Sacred Summits biking challenge is a tangible way for you to show your support for these vistas that are irreplaceable. Our ride will be challenging, asking you to give your best. But if you are looking for a ride that could ever change your soul, and leave you with an imprint of sites to be long remembered, then join us.

"We need to work together - all of us - to hand this gift along" - Elizabeth Hunter