Comments | hippieatheart: Quite a weekend away...

hippieatheart

Quite a weekend away...

Jan 20, 2009 11:15

The annual MLK-Weekend camping trip was excellent. We went up into the mountains northwest of Dahlonega, and camped on a flat area near the top of one of the mountains, with an amazing vista of the surrounding area and valley below. There's no denying it was cold...it snowed all three days we were up there, and the wind coming out of the valley ( Read more... )

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turdburgler January 20 2009, 19:52:55 UTC

The annual MLK-Weekend camping trip was excellent.

Do you have a link or other info for where in particular you stayed at? We go up to N Ga occasionally to fly around the curvy roads, but not usually to stay the night. It might be nice to stay up in the mountains sometime.

hippieatheart January 20 2009, 20:00:31 UTC

Um...not really. We drove around the roads by Camp Frank D. Merrill until we found a spot that was far enough off the road not to be seen by everyone passing by and large enough to accommodate 7 people. I should have brought my GPS, but I left it at home.

hippieatheart January 20 2009, 20:13:45 UTC

I want to say we were in the vicinity of 34.653655°N 84.133226°W (looking at Google Earth) though it's hard to tell with the treecover in the aerial photos.