Mountain Cruise

[One&Only]

Saturday, March 27
Time:8:00am - 8:00pm
Location:North Georgia Mountains & Beyond

Description

We will meet at Starbucks, exit 13 off GA 400, 8:00 AM and depart by 9:00 AM.

From there we'll caravan through North Georgia and into N Carolina. Our focus destination for the day is Deals Gap, AKA the Dragons Tail. For the unfamiler The Dragon has 318 curves in 11 miles. An experience at any speed.
We will stay there till 3:00 or 4:00 PM then caravan back to Atlanta. Various stops for food and fuel are planned during the day.
All are welcome to attend...so bring a car full of friends. You don't need a car to enjoy the scenery. Looking forward to seeing everyone.

[rodi]

le date?

[One&Only]

Originally Posted by rodi

le date?

Oops!!!
Sorry about that...all fixed now.
Thx for the heads up & hope you can join us.
We should be rollin with the following: Cvic, MINI, Porsche Targa, My 1er, Lotus Elise, M3, & other asorted BMWs.

Hope you can join us.

[rodi]

i'll make it if i don't get booked that date in the meantime.

[adrean8j]

Will put this on my calendar and RSVP if I can do it...

[JimD]

Be sure and google up the 3 photographers that sell pictures of you on the Tail of the Dragon after your trip. It takes them a few days to get the pictures posted. I bought a few, including the one to the left. I hope you don't get stuck behind harleys like we did the first pass. I understood why they go so slow later when one of the went off the road. Not a good place for that.

Jim

[My135]

I am interested if I am in town. I have marked my calender for now and hope I can join you guys for a fun trip like this. Thanks for organizing.

[m3bs]

May need to keep an eye on this:

http://www.thedailytimes.com/article...news/303169985

[rodi]

damn. they need to fix that junk.

[One&Only]

This is gonna be an awesome fun day. From what I'm told,
we should hav a Lotus group hangin with us in the morning. Dunno about the rest of the day.
It's been a long, cold, wet winter & we all need a fun driving day. Weather is lookin like rain Fri & Sun but not on our motoring day. Can't wait!
Actually the organizer is my buddy Jack who'll be drivin th black on black (stinkin fast) MINI.

Originally Posted by My135

I am interested if I am in town. I have marked my calender for now and hope I can join you guys for a fun trip like this. Thanks for organizing.

[One&Only]

Originally Posted by JimD

Be sure and google up the 3 photographers that sell pictures of you on the Tail of the Dragon after your trip. It takes them a few days to get the pictures posted. I bought a few, including the one to the left. I hope you don't get stuck behind harleys like we did the first pass. I understood why they go so slow later when one of the went off the road. Not a good place for that.

Jim

Here they are:
http://www.killboy.com/destiny.html
http://www.photoreflect.com/pr3/store.aspx?p=47850
http://www.us129photos.com/
http://www.zeefoto.com/

These are the one's I've seen out there over the past 5 years.
Killboy is usually out there & we'll just have to see who else.

[One&Only]

Originally Posted by m3bs

May need to keep an eye on this:

http://www.thedailytimes.com/article...news/303169985

We are keeping an eye out...
Friday, I'm calling my buddy Ben who manages the crossroads.
He'll have all the poop.
There are plenty of amazing roads & sights in the area.
2 summers ago when the THP showed up, I blew up & down the Dragon only once the whole time I was there...the rest of the time I enjoyed 28, Yellow Creek Rd., Cherohalla Skyway & roads around Franklin. The Gap is supposed to reopen this weekend & I hear the skyway is an ice sheet right now. BUT... I WILL CHECK AND REPOST WHEN I KNOW.

Last year about this time I did a day trip to Cherohalla. It was clear as could be till we met solid ice 3 miles from the top. The rest of the day was fabulous!!!

[JimD]

You need to be sure and stop at the top. There is pretty obvious pull over place. On one side you have the mountain vistas and on the other side you have a lake. Great place to take a few photos.

If you take any of the scenic roads getting there, some are along creeks/small streams. We went past the first waterfall before I started to stop for photos. You can get a free map of the scenic roads in the area by googling "tail of the dragon" and finding the right website. You can just download the pdf for nothing. The scenic roads are slower, however, with turns you need to be down around 25 mph for. The Tail of the Dragon has a little bit of shoulder and some pull off spots. The other roads my son and I took often had guard rails hard up against the road - not a place to be pushing it.

Jim