RTD 2021 - Saturday Drive
03-03-2021 | 06:19 AM
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Have you thought this through, first we do the monster rollout so we get on the road for this trip about 10ish, then 5 hours to get there, and 4 1/2 hours to get back, add in gas stops, maybe dinner and we're getting back at maybe 9 or 10ish at night? Is that the plan or is my math off.
Edit - I just realized you map starts from Fontana Village so the 5 hours includes the first hour for the monster rollout so it's not as much as I thought, but still a lot.
Edit 2 - have you driven Yellow Creek road, I did a couple of trips ago and it was kinda sketchy. We might want to pre-drive it and make sure it's ok.
Edit - I just realized you map starts from Fontana Village so the 5 hours includes the first hour for the monster rollout so it's not as much as I thought, but still a lot.
Edit 2 - have you driven Yellow Creek road, I did a couple of trips ago and it was kinda sketchy. We might want to pre-drive it and make sure it's ok.
I am going to a pre-drive on the Wednesday, or Thursday (depending on when Ken gets in the area), going down. I'll go over to Asheville and run the route form there. Darcy's outbound route is solid. May still tweak it, to see if we can find some time savings.
03-03-2021 | 06:52 AM
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From: Six Metro stops short of insanity.
03-03-2021 | 08:19 AM
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All - the routes I posted, the Outbound from Darcy's suggestion and the Inbound route, that hits all of our favorites, do need to be tweaked. I'm trying to do this from work. The military computers don't like the Google shortcuts that our cellphones like.
Once I get home from Lenten Vespers, I'll do a deeper dive. This, of course, is the first pass. We are 8 weeks out!
Once I get home from Lenten Vespers, I'll do a deeper dive. This, of course, is the first pass. We are 8 weeks out!
03-03-2021 | 05:58 PM
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I've found after the roll out, we usually don't hit the trails until about 10:30. I've had to cut routes down on the fly- some have been a little too ambitious.
I'm sad we can't make the event this spring
darcy
I'm sad we can't make the event this spring
darcy
03-04-2021 | 06:10 AM
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Have you thought this through, first we do the monster rollout so we get on the road for this trip about 10ish, then 5 hours to get there, and 4 1/2 hours to get back, add in gas stops, maybe dinner and we're getting back at maybe 9 or 10ish at night? Is that the plan or is my math off.
Edit - I just realized you map starts from Fontana Village so the 5 hours includes the first hour for the monster rollout so it's not as much as I thought, but still a lot.
Edit 2 - have you driven Yellow Creek road, I did a couple of trips ago and it was kinda sketchy. We might want to predrive it and make sure it's ok.
Edit - I just realized you map starts from Fontana Village so the 5 hours includes the first hour for the monster rollout so it's not as much as I thought, but still a lot.
Edit 2 - have you driven Yellow Creek road, I did a couple of trips ago and it was kinda sketchy. We might want to predrive it and make sure it's ok.
03-04-2021 | 06:15 AM
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From: Six Metro stops short of insanity.
I drove Yellow Creek and Meadow Branch at the October event, and Yellow Branch is super twisty, on a mountainside...
I am going to a pre-drive on the Wednesday, or Thursday (depending on when Ken gets in the area), going down. I'll go over to Asheville and run the route form there. Darcy's outbound route is solid. May still tweak it, to see if we can find some time savings.
I am going to a pre-drive on the Wednesday, or Thursday (depending on when Ken gets in the area), going down. I'll go over to Asheville and run the route form there. Darcy's outbound route is solid. May still tweak it, to see if we can find some time savings.
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03-04-2021 | 12:38 PM
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Jim here is a short cut from NC 215 to NC 209 bypassing the town of Waynesville. A local showed us it a couple of years ago. It will cut down on time for the drive.
https://goo.gl/maps/JqghpZ285goD66Zb9
https://goo.gl/maps/JqghpZ285goD66Zb9
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03-04-2021 | 03:20 PM
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From: Six Metro stops short of insanity.
Jim here is a short cut from NC 215 to NC 209 bypassing the town of Waynesville. A local showed us it a couple of years ago. It will cut down on time for the drive.
https://goo.gl/maps/JqghpZ285goD66Zb9
https://goo.gl/maps/JqghpZ285goD66Zb9