Georgia Trail Riders Forum
OPEN RIDES & EVENTS => Trail Rides & Open Events (Everyone's invited) => Topic started by: Trailabite on December 29, 2022, 09:17:19 AM
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Join us for a full day of riding through the forest service roads of North Georgia. 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.
When: January 21, 2023
Meet: Walmart (1455 US-41, Clayton, GA 30525)
Start time: 9:00 am
Bring snack, drinks and a lunch.
Everyone's invited! Come out and meet some new like-minded friends!
We will meet at Walmart (1455 US-41, Clayton, GA 30525) in Clayton, GA.
Saturday Jan 21st at 9:00 am. There will be a drivers meeting at 9:30 then we will
depart no later than 10am.
This is the discussion thread. If you'd like to attend this ride go here to check in:
Winter Wander Ride - Check-in Thread (http://www.gatrailriders.com/GTRForums/index.php?topic=19564.0)
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Ill get a route posted soon.
The meeting place is going to change. It will most likely be the Wallmart in Clayton.
It would be a blessing for me if a couple people with radios would commit to middle and end of pack. We had a huge turn out last year and that was very helpfull.
This will be a super tow rig friendly ride. All I have running right now is the new truck and Im gonna act like a Discovery owner from the 90s with it. I wont do a pre run for this so pin stripes might happen as we will be on an exploration, but I will do my best to pick wider dirt roads.
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I will have a radio.
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I’ll have my built in plus two handhelds
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I think I just sent the route to @Trailabite.
It will start at the Clayton Walmart. We will then go do a loop of dirt roads that will bring us into Pine Mtn. From there we will head to Burrells Ford Road. This will take us into South Carolina as we cross over the Chattooga river. It is also the first leg of the Traverse Trail as ran east to west.
We will then jump back on the hard top for a moment and run into North Carolina where we will get back on dirt and take a backway into Highlands via the "Old Iron Bridge".
The route ends at the Ugly Dog Public House.
It should be early enough in the day to explore Highlands, Grab a beer, or head out to something else.
Light lunch/snack break at the South Carolina Line. Have something bigger in Highlands.
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I think I’ve been on part of this road , never did make it to highlands.
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Ugly Dog…I’m definitely in. Great idea. I love highlands.
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The road is called Bull Pen Rd that the bridge is on. Supposed to be some waterfalls and stuff you can see from the bridge.
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I never made to highlands either. Ran out of gas. Will be nice to see everyone that goes and get some trail hours on the new jeep.
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Would this be appropriate for a noob? Just purchased a 4Runner and looking to learn from some experienced drivers.
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Would this be appropriate for a noob? Just purchased a 4Runner and looking to learn from some experienced drivers.
Yes, more than likely you won’t have to put it in 4 wheel drive .
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We will bring radios!
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FYI - for those of you that are willing to bring and share your handheld radios make sure you have some sort of identification on them. There's lot of people that don't know each other and sometimes we forget what went where lol.
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Less than 24hrs away. Hope everyone is gassed up.
Ill get to the Walmart around 8:30 - 8:45 tomorrow morning.
*Few Reminders*
Ill be in a white 4wd 2500 late model ram.
9-9:30 Arrive
9:30 Drivers Meeting
10:00 Head to trail
2:30-330 Finish
Bathrooms will be scarce if any. Please be prepared to do like the bears should nature call.
There are a few different places along the route that we will stop and stretch our legs, have a snack, take pictures, that kind of thing.
The ride will conclude when we get to Highlands NC. We should get there with plenty of time to explore the town, have a nice mid afternoon lunch/dinner, or head home to something similar.