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North America » United States » Georgia » Dahlonega September 6th 2016

Geo: 34.5331, -83.9842After a nice visit with Bill and Beverly and then praying for them as Bill left for work, Glenn and I left in the RAV 4 to head towards White Stone which is near Knoxville, TN.I had wanted to visit with Joanne (Eagle) and Oliver Sale. I had never heard back from Joanne from our first contact back in May, so as we drove along the winding roads, we called up Joanne and talked with her. She mentioned that she replied to my email - I never got it. I suspect that she "replied in the form of a text message", and since we didn't have texting, I never got it.But any how, we connected and she said "come on". Although, her husband Oliver would not be there. He golfs on Tuesday.We arrived at ... read more
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North America » United States » Georgia » Dahlonega April 24th 2008

Our shuttle arrived about 12:30 for the run down to Springer Mtn. The ride down was scenic and restful with someone else driving. Stopped in Blairsville, Ga for a late lunch/early supper. Then it was off to the trail. We headed up the trail .9mi to reach the Summit of Springer and the official start North, this was 6:45PM. We made that distance in 30 minutes and CC looked to the sky then at me. "The sun is still fairly high, let's quit wasting time and walk." Off we went. We hiked until 8PM covering 2.5 miles ending up at the Stover Creek Shelter. There was no need for cooking, so the tent went up and we did a bit of socializing. "Phexen" a young man had his tent near ours and he came out ... read more

North America » United States » Georgia » Dahlonega November 19th 2007

Posted By: Onaxthiel: And now, a day to cover three states. Leaving Raleigh from A's place was easy enough, being a Sunday morning on highways. We made one more stop off at E's place in Fayetteville to see if he wanted to go shooting, but he had a sizable hangover and wasn't up for loud banging sounds. After a brief stop, we moved on to the long, indirect route down towards Dahlonega, Georgia. There really isn't much to tell about the drive to the mountains. I got pulled over and ticketed by a Georgia State Trooper. I was smiling and polite the entire time, since I was in a pretty good mood up until the light appeared in the rear view, and still got ticketed. Next time I will have to try belligerence. The next day ... read more
Hats!
Minigolf!
Imports!

North America » United States » Georgia » Dahlonega May 14th 2007

This past weekend I went on my first ever camping trip in preparation for my second trip out west. Before I start I might as well plug my other trip journal on here, which was a trip that I took out west last May. So if you find this an interesting read at all, you might want to take a look at that as well. But this journal is about my camping out for the first time. My backpack was not too heavy...coming in at around 20 lbs which included 3 litres of water, a tent, sleeping bag, cooking stove and 1.5 litre pan, rain jacket, some extra clothes, food, and a book (which I never read of course), plus some other various stuff like aspirin, band-aides, my trusty Kershaw 4" blade knife, and of ... read more
A caterpillar
First views of the mountainside from the trail
First good view from the trail

North America » United States » Georgia » Dahlonega May 30th 2006

For Memorial Day weekend, we packed up ourselves, our pooches, and our gear and headed north to a 'women only' campground near Dahlonega, GA called Swiftwaters Womanspace. The owners of this private creek-side property have operated a very cool camping experience for women since 1979. Sadly, we were not very good about taking pictures, but I managed to grab a few of Shay and Emma G. The weather was nice. Low 90's and pretty humid, with a few episodes of thunder and lightening in the distance. We endured one brief shower, but didn't even need to put the rainfly on the tent. The creek was nice and cold and just deep enough to wade in and cool off or take a float on an innertube. As we drove back home late this morning, I decided that ... read more
Emma G: Adventure Princess
Real cowgirls sleep with their hats on
Shaggy, hot, messy mop-head

North America » United States » Georgia » Dahlonega May 13th 2006

Mist of sunrise was hanging over the Northern Georgia town of Dahnolega when we arrived at seven in the morning. It has been a long day already, starting by waking up at four in Atlanta to meet up with the group at 5:30 am, to participate in the 10th Annual Ranger Run event. There are fifteen people in our group, doing the 5k Run, 15k Ranger Run, or the 34k Biking Race. The race is then followed by the US Army Ranger Open House which only happens once a year. I need to quote the Ranger Run mission statement from the Ranger Run website to illustrate a better description of the event: Each year during the spring, Camp Frank C. Merrill opens the camp and facilities to the public for a day. Visitors are able to ... read more
Camo
An ambush demonstration
Combat demonstration




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