HIgh Country, High Rider - Catherine Brooks, an artist from Richmond, VA is on a solo cross-country journey to Los Angelos, CA. She was captured in this image on the two-mile climb from Price Lake to Rough Ridge at the Boone Fork trailhead (MP 294) on the Blue Ridge Parkway in North Carolina. Incidentally, the bike was built by Catherine.

Honorable Mention Award - 2014 Appalachian Mountain Photo Contest, People on the Parkway category.