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signed up for donuts and leading one drive. Rest of the time, we will find a drive to join in on with friends.

 

Yup that's what our groups does. A few of us leave the Philly area around 9- 10 PM Sunday night and drive through the night. We come in from the TN side of the Dragon to Hellbender. It's a great feeling when you turn onto 129 and get past the houses and on the lower slower end of the road.

After a long overnight road trip you know it was all worth it. For the drive in with the sun coming up I turn off the radio, open the windows, sunroof, fell the warn sun on my face and listen to the sound of my SC and exhaust and smile from ear to ear because I have arrived for another fun week at the Dragon with all my MINI friends.

We show up Monday around 7:00 am Monday and do our drives until it gets real busy. All the local roads are a blast on Mon - Tues.

 

Stop that last hurrah stuff Jeff. You'll be around forever.

 

We think we might have a possibility of maybe opening registration for an hour after the welcome dinner. Please think about volunteering then as well. But we are not sure yet. So anyone thinking I'll just go pick up my stuff then, don't plan on it yet. It's still up in the air.

 

Wednesday - Wine Tasting
Thursday - Sunrise drive
Thurs - River End drive
Friday - MoM-MA Donut Run!

 

I'm just going to trail behind Blimey. It's brought me luck a few times.

 

I don't even see where to sign up for drives.
I only do the donut run and I don't think we have a limit for that one.

 

The sign up opened this morning at 7am.

 

Moved this thread to the MOTD area since it grew beyond MoM folks.

 

I signed up for Donuts and 1 other, rest of the days, going to hang and visit.

Maybe on Saturday do a solo, then Sunday take my normal route out of the area, heading Southwest, then North again.

Don

 

Welp, it looks like the one drive I had planned to take while at MOTD filled up within 10 minutes of the site opening, so I am down to just hosting the Cigar Salon before heading back home. An "up and back" this year is gonna be a real PITA.....:frown2:

 

I hear that and agree with it, but, I normally just go down, do the Cigar Salon, sit around and smoke, do some drives either by myself or with a few friends, and then go home. I'm not much for crowded drives, but though I might take in this one this year, since it IS my last hurrah.

 

So what road are you calling Hellbender? Not sure I'm going to make it down as I absolutely hate the dragon on Saturdays and I have plans for a week in June down there with the SV group. Signing up for rides is a bit confusing to me though....especially in cars...

 

I thought maybe that's what it was but I've never heard it referred to as Hellbender.....knew the pit stop was called that but not the route. Guess I might need a new map. Then again last time I was there I mainly rode roads that the coops only dream to go down...

 

Thursday morning on the Dragon. Then Brewery run
Friday Donut run and Rivers End
Saturday Cherohala just on our own. So who ever wants to come along.

 

Hey,

does MA have a list of member's favorite roads in the area? Yep, I'm familiar with probably every website dedicated to the Dragon, but I'm wondering about MA folks that have roads they have run they really like. I want to make sure I'm not missing anything since I am getting there several days early. The few I already have run, other than the Dragon, of course:

RT. 28, from Deals Gap, through GA, all the way into SC-incredible(have done this 90+ mile trek 8 or 9 times....can't get enough of it)

Wayeh(?) Road-I don't get the attraction. Road has been in pretty awful shape the 3 times I have run it. Goes through lots of residential areas with driveways.

Cherohala-nice site seeing road

thanks!

Jeff

 

Wayeh is a road for dual sports....certainly not your bike...not even sure I would fly through with the car. But beautiful scenery nontheless.. I am going to have to pull out my good maps that I have in my tank bags tonight. There are sooo many good roads.

 

Santeetlah is a fun one to run up. Nothing at the other end, other than a nice view to soakup for a while. But it's a good fun climb with low traffic. And relatively close in.

Out past Franklin is Ellijay Road, and from there you can connect to Cullowhee Mtn Road. Certainly closer than humping it all the way to GA and the Six Gaps area (though that is worth doing.)

 

Why is this your last MOTD??