More on the Future

In my last post I mentioned some upcoming events and activities. Here’s a bit more on some of them.

The Cheaha Fall Colors Ride: Date to be announced soon. This won’t be a tour, in the strict sense. We will drive to a rally point in Alabama, and then ride to the summit of Cheaha. We’ll enjoy the summit, refresh ourselves, and then ride back to the rally point. Pace will be, “whatever gets it done.” We won’t have to stick together, but we won’t leave anyone out there.

Triple Gap (or Fort Mountain) Ride:

Here are two possibilities, we only get to do one. I’m planning to do one or the other of these on an upcoming, mid October, Thursday.

Triple Gap:

We drive to Dahlonega and meet at a rally point. We start riding at 9:00 AM. We do the “south triple,” consisting of Neels Gap, Wolfpen Gap, and Woody Gap. It’s about 53 miles, with a gain of close to 6,000 feet.. We go in almost any weather. (We’ll cancel if it looks like snow, or violent weather.) We will likely stop briefly in Suches, before the last climb.

Fort Mountain:

Start finish is in Elijay. This one is an out-and-back. We start riding in Elijay (about 100 miles from PTC), go over Fort Mountain, descend to Chatsworth, take a break, then return the same way we came out. It’s spectacular scenery, with fairly light traffic. A side trip into Fort Mountain State Park is possible. Distance is about 50 miles with close to 6,000 feet of gain.

Nights Under Lights:

Let’s get some night riding done! We’ll do some weeknight road riding, likely

Around 7:30 to 8:00 for starts, and do one to two hours of riding. We’ll also bring back the popular (with some of us crazies) Dawn Patrols. The Dawn Patrols start early hours of Sunday mornings. We’re out for between three and five hours. We time it so we make a coffee stop at dawn, and get back to the start for breakfast about 8:30. We start/finish these at either the IHOP in Fayetteville, or the Pancake House in PTC.

We’ll be announcing times and dates for all of these soon.

Ride when you can, stay safe, be happy.