Avery Creek Trail in Pisgah with MTB H - Southeast Style 8

There's only about 700,000 YouTube videos of Pisgah online now thanks to all the bro code whores.
The one dude has whored this place out so hard, he's bought and sold houses from it.

How is it actually riding pisgah? I've been interested cause you hear lots of about it. But then the videos make a lot of it seem like just back country double track.

It used to be thin ribbons of singletrack, very rooty, lots of hike a bike and really weaving through thickets of laurels & dense vegetation with black dirt & rock.

But less than 10 years ago, IMBA board member from here sold Pisgah brass on sustainable trails using machines, rolling grade dips and tourism dollars (even though the lots were packed and overrun with tourists). They've since had most every single trail re-routed, hit everything with backhoes and trail dozers, led constant crews of do gooders with promise of free beer and bro hugs on weekly ventures to "maintain" the trails with rogue hoes & chainsaws. The really big thing that got sold was "safety" meaning corridors wide enoughfor fat lazy EMTs to roll in and quickly extract people using side by sides.

All the while they claim this is "better" because "it all used to be logging roads and railroad grades"

Honestly curious here, what's a "bro code whore"?

Bro Code Whore - " Guy who decides that the only way he can be cool enough to still be a bro and abide by the mythical bro code is to bust out the camera, post all the goods, tell all the secrets of the trails, sit in the lots pounding bro beers, sit on top of quiet, scenic overlooks with drones shouting "Bro" and pounding IPA's taking selfies and shouting to smash that LIKE & SUBSCRIBE BUTTON.

I'm sure you have all the douchey YouTube bros where you ride seling out everything for the subscribers, all the while doing dick moves and playing the touristy, passive aggressive, loud mouth a-hole, all the while pretending it's because they're "stoked". But they're really just narcissistic a-holes who would ruin any and all fun things for others in the exact same way.

Bizutch ain’t lying folks.

If you like hike-a-bike sections, it’s probably worse. If you like mountain biking, it’s a pretty rad place.