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The riding and the driving

1815 days ago

Lauren, myself, and a couple friends woke up early this weekend and made a trip up to the north georgia mountains. The loop of roads formed by US348, US17, and US19 have been described as “the most curvacious in the united states”. I didn’t really know what to expect. Would it really be so ridiculously curvy that you had to go 20mph? Or would we have to be going 90mph to even make it exciting.

It wasn’t either of those, really. There were several stretches of the route that were absolutely ridiculous. Like quadruple S curves with 200ft elevation differences. It’s really rather quite boring to describe it in words, so I’ll just post a few pictures of the trip.

We did happen to take the same route as the GT Ride & Drive takes every year, so we’ll probably go with them again in march.

Got lost point #1. Thats justin in his GTI.

The stop after the first section of the route. There was a nice little rest stop area, I think it was the trailhead for the appalachian trail. A couple bicyclers were just pulling up… keep in mind this was at the TOP of the mountain thing. I laughed at them.

Lauren, myself

Second time we got lost

Georgia can actually be somewhat picturesque sometimes… who knew

That entire side of the cliffs were covered in huge sheets of ice. Good thing we hadn’t gone the day before like planned

Curvy. 85% of the time I was on this road, I was driving by looking out my side window, because thats where the road was going

Going about 50 here or so

On the absolute curviest stretch of the route, we get stuck behind this guy. He couldn’t have broken 10mph for the entire 5 or 6 mile road. It was miserable. Oh but then it got better!

10mph too fast? Lets just add some bicyclists to the mix, whom the old man in the truck would refuse to go around

We got pretty high up there

So, thats it. It was definitely a blast, I’m sure we’ll do it again.