Jan 15th 2022 Forest Service Road Ride - discussion

[tjsahara00]

Okay everyone GTR is going to start back doing the Annual January Forest Service Road ride! This will be a day full of light, easy trail riding and sight seeing. No rock crawling, no hardcore trails, etc. We'll be traveling on Forest Service Roads in North Georgia.

In 2015 we had 79 rigs signed up. It was cold that morning but we had a great time!

Everyone's invited! Come out and meet some new like-minded  friends!

Here is the route we had that https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Walmart+Supercenter,+270+Walmart+Way,+Dahlonega,+GA+30533/34.7245478,-84.0288443/Flatlands,+Georgia+30572/34.7667053,-83.6674408/34.7992959,-83.6915184/34.7549333,-83.7246464/34.7230685,-83.7476185/Troll+Tavern,+North+Main+Street,+Helen,+GA/@34.6802855,-83.9660155,11z/data=!4m25!4m24!1m5!1m1!1s0x885f6628aa20e9f1:0x4de4441f05f22f01!2m2!1d-83.9726073!2d34.5387208!1m0!1m5!1m1!1s0x885f135c37b13275:0x2648918f938ad8b9!2m2!1d-84.0232474!2d34.7348115!1m0!1m0!1m0!1m0!1m5!1m1!1s0x885f37d8795e777b:0xba65ae915dfc45f3!2m2!1d-83.7296104!2d34.701087!3e0

I remember meeting quite a bit of new folks including @8lugLJ on that ride. He was in that big ole Ford diesel truck.
So what do y'all think?? Any volunteers to lead the ride that day?

Here is a video from that ride

[Jeepster1407]

Interested. Hopefully I can make it if this pans out but I wont know until last minute.

[Cannonballkev]

That was my first ride with GATR

[tjsahara00]

That was my first ride with GATR

Yes and you can see your truck in Marc's video

[Grass Janitor]

I’ll be in for this unless my son has a wrestling meet that day. I’m happy to lead but I’m not an expert on forest service roads. I grabbed a pic off the FB page the other day with some GPS coordinates though so I might be able to put something together. I liked the Charlie’s creek/popcorn creek route we did in Dec 2020 as well. Looks like that route from 2015 included the back side of Tray Mt, that’s closed.


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[Cannonballkev]

I’ll be in for this unless my son has a wrestling meet that day. I’m happy to lead but I’m not an expert on forest service roads. I grabbed a pic off the FB page the other day with some GPS coordinates though so I might be able to put something together. I liked the Charlie’s creek/popcorn creek route we did in Dec 2020 as well. Looks like that route from 2015 included the back side of Tray Mt, that’s closed.


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Back side of tray snd Flatlands which I’m pretty sure is closed also.

I’m 10 min from popcorn/Charlie’s creek

[8lugLJ]

I’ll be in for this unless my son has a wrestling meet that day. I’m happy to lead but I’m not an expert on forest service roads. I grabbed a pic off the FB page the other day with some GPS coordinates though so I might be able to put something together. I liked the Charlie’s creek/popcorn creek route we did in Dec 2020 as well. Looks like that route from 2015 included the back side of Tray Mt, that’s closed.


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Back side of tray snd Flatlands which I’m pretty sure is closed also.

I’m 10 min from popcorn/Charlie’s creek

Flatlands is out and back from FS. Too much traffic from the internet wheelers pissed the folks off that live on the paved end so they complained and formed a HOA type deal and gated it.

[Danny Kinder]

Was that the ride that we stopped by the fish hatchery? These FS rides are some of the best times I've had off-road!

[clark123456]

Was that the ride that we stopped by the fish hatchery? These FS rides are some of the best times I've had off-road!

That was a great trip.   Doug did us right.

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[gint2]

2013 was pretty epic as well... the frozen trees was one hell of a sight... then Bell Mtn.

[jd30005]

Was that the ride that we stopped by the fish hatchery? These FS rides are some of the best times I've had off-road!

That was a great trip.   Doug did us right.

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And those fried pies at that little country store place we stopped at one year.  Awesome ride.  I wish my TJ was going to be ready to go for this....

[ccarter]

Looks like I’ll be off work that weekend. It’d be great to finally make it for one of the group’s rides!