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OPEN RIDES & EVENTS => Past Rides : Pictures, Discussion, & Carnage => Topic started by: classified on January 17, 2022, 08:07:55 PM
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First off, I want to thank everyone that showed up. We had a good turn out of about 30-35 vehicles and still had half that stayed to the end.
My daughters and I enjoyed meeting a lot of new people, and are honored that each and everyone of you trusted us to not get lost with the weather coming in.
I would like to implore all of the "new" people to read through the past rides from the last year. There are picture, carnage, discussion threads that will give you an idea of what a "normal" club ride looks like.
Also please look at this thread, http://www.gatrailriders.com/GTRForums/index.php?topic=11735.0
as it will give you insight into the mind set we should all have.
I don't want to discourage anyone, as this is a sport that is closer to my heart than any other hobby I have. It's refueled a relationship with my oldest child, and I'm starting to see the light in my youngest eyes.
Its expensive, requires time, patience, and as someone told me when I first started, a little bit of masochism.
But for me it's always been worth it all.
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Thanks for leading. We had a great time!
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I posted several live videos on our facebook page. Not the best quality but......I tried
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Here is members pictures on facebook
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Thanks for putting the ride together, enjoyed it, sorry I had to bail half way through. What time did y’all finish?
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Thanks for putting the ride together, enjoyed it, sorry I had to bail half way through. What time did y’all finish?
Travis and I left right after y'all did.
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Thanks for putting the ride together, enjoyed it, sorry I had to bail half way through. What time did y’all finish?
Travis and I left right after y'all did.
I think it was right at 4:00 when hit the paved road again
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It was such a success....
Thanks @classified for the route and leading. Good job at the drivers meeting also. As mentioned before we need to incorporate more of these and possibly make it an overland weekend trip......
Start thinking of some ideas
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It was such a success....
Thanks @classified for the route and leading. Good job at the drivers meeting also. As mentioned before we need to incorporate more of these and possibly make it an overland weekend trip......
Start thinking of some ideas
Thank you and Tony for helping keep up with the group, made my job so much easier.
Id like to do an overlanding trip that still has some wheeling involved. Not necessarily hell's revenge everyday, but at least a reason to use 4wd. Maybe like an ultimate adventure where only a couple people know the route and everyone else is along for the ride. Probably with a little easier wheeling.
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Coppinger cove. Camp overnight . Need someone that knows the area, or you will get lost
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It was such a success....
Thanks @classified for the route and leading. Good job at the drivers meeting also. As mentioned before we need to incorporate more of these and possibly make it an overland weekend trip......
Start thinking of some ideas
Thank you and Tony for helping keep up with the group, made my job so much easier.
Id like to do an overlanding trip that still has some wheeling involved. Not necessarily hell's revenge everyday, but at least a reason to use 4wd. Maybe like an ultimate adventure where only a couple people know the route and everyone else is along for the ride. Probably with a little easier wheeling.
First we need to do a daytrip or 2 with a river crossing and a spot where you
have to use 4 wheel drive....maybe Beasley Knob. Then plan an overnight
overland trip. We need to find the fine line between forest road and the off
road parks. Once we achieve this > then the newer crowd will want more
and then maybe they will try an off road park.
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It was such a success....
Thanks @classified for the route and leading. Good job at the drivers meeting also. As mentioned before we need to incorporate more of these and possibly make it an overland weekend trip......
Start thinking of some ideas
Thank you and Tony for helping keep up with the group, made my job so much easier.
Id like to do an overlanding trip that still has some wheeling involved. Not necessarily hell's revenge everyday, but at least a reason to use 4wd. Maybe like an ultimate adventure where only a couple people know the route and everyone else is along for the ride. Probably with a little easier wheeling.
First we need to do a daytrip or 2 with a river crossing and a spot where you
have to use 4 wheel drive....maybe Beasley Knob. Then plan an overnight
overland trip. We need to find the fine line between forest road and the off
road parks. Once we achieve this > then the newer crowd will want more
and then maybe they will try an off road park.
Coppinger cove!
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It was such a success....
Thanks @classified for the route and leading. Good job at the drivers meeting also. As mentioned before we need to incorporate more of these and possibly make it an overland weekend trip......
Start thinking of some ideas
Thank you and Tony for helping keep up with the group, made my job so much easier.
Id like to do an overlanding trip that still has some wheeling involved. Not necessarily hell's revenge everyday, but at least a reason to use 4wd. Maybe like an ultimate adventure where only a couple people know the route and everyone else is along for the ride. Probably with a little easier wheeling.
First we need to do a daytrip or 2 with a river crossing and a spot where you
have to use 4 wheel drive....maybe Beasley Knob. Then plan an overnight
overland trip. We need to find the fine line between forest road and the off
road parks. Once we achieve this > then the newer crowd will want more
and then maybe they will try an off road park.
Coppinger cove!
First off, its 3 hrs away. 2nd, I maybe wrong, but Im pretty sure they have started ticketing people in there for riding in the creeks, drinking, and trashing the place up. Sounds to me like they are starting to move towards closures. Its also a stretch to call the Cove "overlanding" , its more like beat your brains out on a shitty dirt road and call it wheeling haha.
I suggested the overnight thing before the FS ride and noone really responded. I think we can manage a few roads close to Beasly and then cut up and across the mountain on the main trails with little effort as long as they have good tires and 4wd. There is camping and water crossings close by (as well as inside Beasly) just depends on how far the group wants to go and how long they wanna spend riding/camping/wheeling. If this is a real thing people want to do then all we need is good weather and someone say plan it and it could happen.
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The way I remembered it was it was thought to be a great idea but was going to need some planning.
I think it should be in warmer camping weather though. I was counting on you to help with the plans
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It was such a success....
Thanks @classified for the route and leading. Good job at the drivers meeting also. As mentioned before we need to incorporate more of these and possibly make it an overland weekend trip......
Start thinking of some ideas
Thank you and Tony for helping keep up with the group, made my job so much easier.
Id like to do an overlanding trip that still has some wheeling involved. Not necessarily hell's revenge everyday, but at least a reason to use 4wd. Maybe like an ultimate adventure where only a couple people know the route and everyone else is along for the ride. Probably with a little easier wheeling.
First we need to do a daytrip or 2 with a river crossing and a spot where you
have to use 4 wheel drive....maybe Beasley Knob. Then plan an overnight
overland trip. We need to find the fine line between forest road and the off
road parks. Once we achieve this > then the newer crowd will want more
and then maybe they will try an off road park.
Coppinger cove!
First off, its 3 hrs away. 2nd, I maybe wrong, but Im pretty sure they have started ticketing people in there for riding in the creeks, drinking, and trashing the place up. Sounds to me like they are starting to move towards closures. Its also a stretch to call the Cove "overlanding" , its more like beat your brains out on a shitty dirt road and call it wheeling haha.
I suggested the overnight thing before the FS ride and noone really responded. I think we can manage a few roads close to Beasly and then cut up and across the mountain on the main trails with little effort as long as they have good tires and 4wd. There is camping and water crossings close by (as well as inside Beasly) just depends on how far the group wants to go and how long they wanna spend riding/camping/wheeling. If this is a real thing people want to do then all we need is good weather and someone say plan it and it could happen.
I’ve never been to the cove, but from what I’ve seen , it looks like a cool place to ride and camp out at. I could be wrong. I don’t know about ticketing people. If they are trashing it, then they should be ticketed .
I’m up for wherever
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The new park Coalmont is part of coppinger cove. I with Justin, coppinger cove where I went was a far cry from the forestry rode trip.
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All I really recall at the cove that was cool was wheeling in a cave, otherwise it was a bunch of water crossings with some being pretty extreme. It wasn’t my favorite.
If my TJ wasn’t under the knife I would have been at the recent forest service ride. I really enjoy those rides and it looks like this one kept up that tradition.
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It was such a success....
Thanks @classified for the route and leading. Good job at the drivers meeting also. As mentioned before we need to incorporate more of these and possibly make it an overland weekend trip......
Start thinking of some ideas
Thank you and Tony for helping keep up with the group, made my job so much easier.
Id like to do an overlanding trip that still has some wheeling involved. Not necessarily hell's revenge everyday, but at least a reason to use 4wd. Maybe like an ultimate adventure where only a couple people know the route and everyone else is along for the ride. Probably with a little easier wheeling.
First we need to do a daytrip or 2 with a river crossing and a spot where you
have to use 4 wheel drive....maybe Beasley Knob. Then plan an overnight
overland trip. We need to find the fine line between forest road and the off
road parks. Once we achieve this > then the newer crowd will want more
and then maybe they will try an off road park.
Coppinger cove!
First off, its 3 hrs away. 2nd, I maybe wrong, but Im pretty sure they have started ticketing people in there for riding in the creeks, drinking, and trashing the place up. Sounds to me like they are starting to move towards closures. Its also a stretch to call the Cove "overlanding" , its more like beat your brains out on a shitty dirt road and call it wheeling haha.
I suggested the overnight thing before the FS ride and noone really responded. I think we can manage a few roads close to Beasly and then cut up and across the mountain on the main trails with little effort as long as they have good tires and 4wd. There is camping and water crossings close by (as well as inside Beasly) just depends on how far the group wants to go and how long they wanna spend riding/camping/wheeling. If this is a real thing people want to do then all we need is good weather and someone say plan it and it could happen.
We went to Beasley back when the leaves were changing and they’ve done a good bit of grading as well as brought in some rock on 93B. We also checked out the camping area and it’s pretty big. I’d say enough for 8-10 spots. I’d be down for an overnight camping trip but I would t want to camp with a bunch from Facebookers. I’d leave it for forum members. Not necessarily CORE though.
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Ok let be clear an overnight would only be for forum members. We will leave the day trip forest roads rides to the facebookers. That was fun for what it was.
Forum members are my main concern and target for rejuvenation.
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The one time I went to coppinger (JKU, 35s, open/open) I thought it was a lot of fun. Not difficult, but scenic and a good day trip with lots of rocks.
@Rocksolidfab goes a good bit, I would like to hear his opinion
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It was such a success....
Thanks @classified for the route and leading. Good job at the drivers meeting also. As mentioned before we need to incorporate more of these and possibly make it an overland weekend trip......
Start thinking of some ideas
Thank you and Tony for helping keep up with the group, made my job so much easier.
Id like to do an overlanding trip that still has some wheeling involved. Not necessarily hell's revenge everyday, but at least a reason to use 4wd. Maybe like an ultimate adventure where only a couple people know the route and everyone else is along for the ride. Probably with a little easier wheeling.
First we need to do a daytrip or 2 with a river crossing and a spot where you
have to use 4 wheel drive....maybe Beasley Knob. Then plan an overnight
overland trip. We need to find the fine line between forest road and the off
road parks. Once we achieve this > then the newer crowd will want more
and then maybe they will try an off road park.
I agree. Something like an ultimate adventure would need to be planned way in advance. Maybe something in the fall or spring next year.
The problem with the south east is that most "cool" places to wheel are closed or in a park. Gravel roads get old, because the scenery really never changes. NGa forest service road looks like a NGa forest service road. Most FS roads that do have any decent wheeling are "out and back" and make large groups hard to move around.
Beasley is a great place to get someone's feet wet. As long as it is dry
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Definitely down for a little warmer weather. There are 2 sides of Beasly with parking still, it would be meet and ride that direction on some dirt, wheel across the gap, camp on the other side, then some could wheel the next day and hit harder stuff if they wanted. Several places to go eat on a Sunday morning that are real close too if anyone needed to bail. All we really need to know is which direction the majority of the group would be coming from to plan a route - Helen-ish, Dawsonville, Buford, or 575/515. Then we would know which roads to hit, maybe even a brewery on our way or at least a good lunch somewhere. The only real issue is weather, they close Beasly if it rains much at all.
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Here is an oldie but goodie. This is when my son would come with me on some trips (he was filming). Clark at Beasley in 2014
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Here is an oldie but goodie. This is when my son would come with me on some trips (he was filming). Clark at Beasley in 2014
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Holy crap. The dude hangin on the front bumper is Tim Colwell, he works at the EMC up here, hes a legend, super nice guy. Never seen that video, thats awesome.
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Here is an oldie but goodie. This is when my son would come with me on some trips (he was filming). Clark at Beasley in 2014
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Clark always tries to show of his belly!
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What about a 3 day trip. Drive out early Friday morning, camp Friday night, drive around Saturday, camp Saturday night and make the drive back home on Sunday? Somewhere in the North GA mountains, Chattanooga area or in the TN Smokey Mountain area. Do some research on back roads and see if we can find anyone with some private property that might have some trails and let us camp.
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Here is an oldie but goodie. This is when my son would come with me on some trips (he was filming). Clark at Beasley in 2014
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I feel like we need the story behind how this happened! The guy who hopped on the front end has NO fear.
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Definitely down for a little warmer weather. There are 2 sides of Beasly with parking still, it would be meet and ride that direction on some dirt, wheel across the gap, camp on the other side, then some could wheel the next day and hit harder stuff if they wanted. Several places to go eat on a Sunday morning that are real close too if anyone needed to bail. All we really need to know is which direction the majority of the group would be coming from to plan a route - Helen-ish, Dawsonville, Buford, or 575/515. Then we would know which roads to hit, maybe even a brewery on our way or at least a good lunch somewhere. The only real issue is weather, they close Beasly if it rains much at all.
What about Black Moose park in dahlonaga (?) as a camp spot Friday, on the way to Beasley area. Can you camp there? Also, Carolina crawlers park in Young Harris is small but fun, camping available there also.
Just throwing out suggestions
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Well Kevin Ralf at Black Moose usually ask for a $30 to $40 donation regardless of 1 day or the weekend.