Six Days in Suches

[weave]

2 days of dirt,2 days of backroad exploring,2days of the same old great roads.
Damn it goes too quick. Stay tuned.......

[Ritten]

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[weave]

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well I can link. I'm still tired with too much to do before Monday Sucks.

Stay tuned

[Flying Low]

i can't wait to read that report. thanks for the water crossing appetizer

[JayD]

Looks like a good time Buddy
I love that place

[weave]

Got to Suches Sat evening and set up camp in the Louiville corner of
High Valley Resort
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Thats Louie's set up with my tent out front.Louie has been riding up there for over twenty years,He is there for the whole month of Oct.
We decided to ride the trails on sunday to avoid the crowds on the street.
We met the guy on the Dakar when we popped out the woods, he wanted to do the Cooper creek area so he tagged along. Had a nice day with a coulple
of stream crossing, The one pictured above is Wolf Creek which is the FS
road up Wolf Pen Gap
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We popped out on 180(wolf Pen Gap RD)
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and then back in
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This was a great trail very scenic
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Well hell didn't down load the pics of the stream sorry guys.
We came back out in suches after doing about 75 mile

[Juice]

Looks like fun Buddy. I can't wait to get up there next summer.

[Rocky]

Cool shot of the water crossing. Its looks cold? How was the temps?

[weave]

A cool start a ccouple of Morning
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The shot for Ken
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[weave]

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[scootertrash]

Pretty country up that way.

[Flying Low]

great pics. seeing that seat picture reminds me of the trip JayD and i took to that area in March. i still vividly remember how cold and miserable i was on those mornings.

[scootertrash]

How long of a ride is it up there?

[Fitty]

Very nice. Thanks

[weave]

8 hours from my house to Dalonega, 15 miles up the Mtn from D
About 500 miles
that was just the first day

[sawguard]

buddy,
I heard how great the ride was with Hwy, and I'd love toget my strom out and tail you around for a few hours over in your neck of the woods.

sounds like fffffffffffffffuuuuuuuuuuuuuuunnnnnnnnnn

sawguard aka tp

[sawguard]

buddy,
I heard how great the ride was with Hwy, and I'd love toget my strom out and tail you around for a few hours over in your neck of the woods.

sounds like fffffffffffffffuuuuuuuuuuuuuuunnnnnnnnnn

sawguard aka tp

[weave]

I have a couple of friends who have been going to Suches since 1982, the year TWO was first opened.Every time we ride the same roads,there great roads but I need a little variety so I often go explore on my own. Well day 2 was ride with friends to the Cherohala.
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Louie had his new Zx 14 and Wally had his new KTM 950 supermoto

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I had my same old GS
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We had a great ride but after a day in the woods I was ready for some strange. I had planned to take off for a couple of nights out,
but the weather report wasn;t favorable to go as far north as I wanted.
Back to plan B, I told the guys I was heading north and east in the morning.
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[weave]

One of my ridding buds decided he wanted to tag along, cept he was runnung a bit late. Well that wasn't too bad but he hadn't eaten breafast and
was hungry, damn there goes my plans for a 300 miler. We pulled into Helen
for lunch at 10:45
The Camel RiderSpecial

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served at the International House


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right on the river
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The food was good waldo bought lunch and we were ready to get some miles.
Headed north out of Helen to a new area that looked good on the maps.
Damn what a great route to Clayton, had way too much fun to stop and snap pics.
Hit Warwoman road


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what a Blast.At this point I headed south into South Carolina and because of the late start I modified my plans and took 107 North,to look for a little crooked road I found on the maps.this road is North of cashiers and south of Sylva.
rest stop in route
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I found the road,jeezzzz what a ride, sorry no pics very techincal and no traffic, none nada zip.We were racing the sun at this point heading back south. Late start 250 miles

Day 4
we were still pumped from yesterdays ride so an early start was a no brainer.
We had a real breakfast in Helen and met a KLR rider, who joined us for the day. jim was from the GA area owned several bikes but hadn't learned about backroads.After hearing us talk of yesterdays ride ,Jim quickly picked up the
tab for the meal.He accepted my offer to join us and off we went.
Took the same route over to Warwoman road and HWy 28. this time it was north on 28 to Highlands to find TOO ToO road. TOO Tight and TOO steep.
Our route took us down the corkscrew, It just seem impossible for me to stop when I'm ridding thse tight switchbacks, I like the rythem and the attention it takes to flow smoothly down the line.Once the road openened up a bit the views became stunning.

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This was a great road started off paved then hardpack then paved.

Ran east out of Cahiers to 281 South. Another littled traveled road that took us back to south carolina. It appeared on the topo that 281 was the first
high road on the escapment as the Blue Ridge pushes up.
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Racing the sun again we stopped at the top of The Richard Russell Hwy
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These buds were allover up there



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It was a good day,265 miles of great roads.

[Flying Low]

thanks for sharing your roads Weave. i hope we can ride them during our next trip out there.

[Juice]

Nice Pics Buddy..........I really wish I could have made this one with ya.

[weave]

After 3 days of serious twisties I was ready for a relaxing day back in da woods.Entered the FS road just below TWO at the old Tritts grocery.
Climbed up the mountain to the 4 way, and went down toward Dalonega to
Whitehunt ORV area. Passed many army rangers training in the mtns, mostly running gut there were a couple of hummers back there. I knew Frank rented out High Valley Resort for special ops training but I never realized there was a
Ranger Training Faciity nearby.
Whitehunt was deserted
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did a little single track
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deja vu and it was the 70's again, ripping up the woods on
my dirtbike.I was gaining alot of confidence in the KLR,Never ever felt heavy,
the gripsters had traction and I pretended it was geared lower.
I was having a blast, just glad no one else was in the park to ruin my self image.

We had agreed to meet a few guys for lunch in Blairsville for lunch so we headed north. Popped out at cooper creek and stopped to visit some more
old legends.this is Bill and Joans garage and home.
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Nice collection of very pristeen bikes. Bill had heard of a woman rider who
loved adventure, rumor has it he searched and rode alover looking for her.
finally met her in the Suches area and asked her to marry him that day.
It was along time ago
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there were pics of Bill on the wall from many of his trips, a great rest stop.

well we had to get to Blairsville so we went into the woods by Bills house
and came out in Blairsville just in time for lunch.
View from Lunch

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Had lunch with Frank Cheek , Ben,Wally, Louie and Myself.
Frank is the man who started TWO and now has High Valley Resort.
Frank is 78 and still rides, he is on a scooter now gut he is still out there.

Louie and I hit the woods again and headed back for suches.He wanted to see me ride down flatland trail. No problem for the KLR so it was across Suches Creek and back to the campground.


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well after two fun days back in the wood I'm going to set my bike up a
little dirtier.

[Flying Low]

weave,
thanks for continuing this report. i am really enjoying it. we were only up there a few days, but i loved it. thanks for sharing some of the areas we didnt' get to vist (yet!).

[JayD]

Nice shot Weave
I'm ready to go back again
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[weave]

Thanks JD. Juice I wish you could have made it too. Hey Gang lets all go back!
Suches is a hard place to beat. Its close and the good riding starts right there.This was the first trip of looking for roads off the beaten path and it paid off.Next trip I am plotting some new routes as well as expanding those just discoverd.
Comming out of the woods on many side roads perked my intrests in micro rides within 30 miles of High Valley. There is alot to explore

Course now I'm thinking AR over Thanksgiving for a quick trip with the son,
depending on weather.

[JayD]

Hey Gang lets all go back!



Sounds like a good idea