Graham Averill, Author at Blue Ridge Outdoors Magazine

Festival Essentials 2018

The Best Gear For Big Bashes In The Blue Ridge Dust off your hula hoops and Chacos—it’s festival season. For the next few months, we’ll gather in celebration o...

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Rush Hour At Bent Creek

Graham Averill11 May 18

It was probably our fault for riding Bent Creek on a Wednesday night at 5:30pm. That’s rush hour for mountain bikers looking for a mid-week break from the munda...

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Two Hands, Two Beers

Graham Averill04 May 18

First, the bad news: Deschutes is scaling down its plans for their Roanoke brewery. The Bend, Oregon-based brewery is still going to purchase the land, and will...

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Mountain Candy by Sycamore Brewing

Graham Averill28 Apr 18

I landed in Asheville almost 15 years ago and haven’t really considered living anywhere else since. Sure, I’ve entertained the notion of spending a winter in Ca...

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Singletrack and Noodles

Graham Averill21 Apr 18

Whiskey Wednesday has been floundering recently. I blame a series of unfortunate events, namely a crappy winter, but also the fact that one of our Founding Fath...

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Empty Nest Syndrome

Graham Averill14 Apr 18

As any parent will tell you, free time is hard to come by. Occasionally, my wife and I will reminisce about all of the things we did before having twins. Things...

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The Sweet Spot

Graham Averill09 Apr 18

I’ve never been the kind of guy who likes to hit the beach and just…sit there. Beach vacations have always driven my wife crazy because she likes to sit and rea...

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Bike Lanes and Fried Chicken

Graham Averill31 Mar 18

I spent a few days in Las Vegas recently and I learned a couple of things. First, I’m too old for Las Vegas. Gambling and drinking Redbull and vodka until 6am e...

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Best Kids’ Gear: Trail-Tested Favorites

Graham Averill29 Mar 18

If you add them all together, the Blue Ridge Outdoors staff has approximately 158 children, ranging in age from new newborns with that new baby smell to college...

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The Asheville IPA | A Beer Made From All Things Magical

Graham Averill23 Mar 18

You might’ve noticed that Highland Brewing Company has shaken things up recently. Highland, which has been around for more than 20 years and was the first brewe...

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Creature Comforts Reclaimed Rye

Graham Averill09 Mar 18

Every once in a while, Creature Comforts, the Athens, Georgia-based brewery that has given the wonderful Tropicalia IPA, releases a different version of Athena,...

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Shoulder Season Karaoke

Graham Averill02 Mar 18

The beautiful thing about singing karaoke, is that everyone is bad at it. In fact, if you’re good at karaoke, you shouldn’t be singing karaoke. You should be in...

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Biking Through Windows and Puffy Jacket Beer

Graham Averill23 Feb 18

Don’t look at the Breckenwolf webcam. It’s too sad. The camera is pointed at the base of the lift. The quad chair is motionless, the main slope bare, except for...

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Here and now is 65 degrees and raining. Here and now is a winter that never really happened. Meanwhile, I have one buddy skiing waist deep powder in Japan and another headed to British Columbia where they’re counting their powder in feet, not inches.

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Riding Bikes with Dre. and Cube

Graham Averill09 Feb 18

Being a white dude from the suburbs, you could make an argument that I don’t have any business listening to N.W.A., or any gangster rap, for that matter.

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Festival Essentials 2018

Rush Hour At Bent Creek

Two Hands, Two Beers

Mountain Candy by Sycamore Brewing

Singletrack and Noodles

Empty Nest Syndrome

The Sweet Spot

Bike Lanes and Fried Chicken

Best Kids’ Gear: Trail-Tested Favorites

The Asheville IPA | A Beer Made From All Things Magical

Creature Comforts Reclaimed Rye

Shoulder Season Karaoke

Biking Through Windows and Puffy Jacket Beer

Be Here Now

Riding Bikes with Dre. and Cube

Graham Averill