wngrog
Adventurer
The forum got hacked last week and my Georgia Traverse trip report got "Hoovered" up with the Russian hackers......so, let me see if I can put this fella back into action.
A few weeks ago the stars lined up in a way that allowed me to take a few days off before picking up my kids at Summer Camp in Brevard North Carolina. In summers past, I have taken some really nice routes up to North Carolina from Mississippi, but never one through the Georgia Highlands.
After looking over the route at www.georgiaoverland.com it looked like a superb way to burn 3 days and 3 nights in the cooler mountains of North Georgia
I generally fly by the seat of my pants on my backcountry trips due to the distances I have to travel to get to the places I want to go. Because of this I had no idea what time I would begin and what time I would end so I gave myself a little cushion time so I would not be in a hurry.
The Traverse is designed as an East to West route with turn-by-turn directions at every waypoint. I had to ignore the "turn lefts" and make them "turn right" but basically I just downloaded the .gpx file so graciously provided on the Georgia Overland site and followed the line.
Looking at this route on Google Maps I just had to laugh. What the hell are all those dots? I don't know about this. I even broke out the Paper maps atlas of Georgia and was going to just trace the route and use Google Maps as I went.
Luckily after downloading the route into GAIA GPS with just route and waypoints it got much less busy and intimidating. I downloaded the area along the path of the route onto my iPad Pro and decided this deal was doable.
Disclaimer. Of the thousands of miles I have driven backroads and trails in the US I have never been one to follow someone else's route blindly. That's just not my thing but heck, after reading some of the reports on the trip on various forums I took a leap of faith and loaded up and pointed the 1998 Land Cruiser northeast.
A few weeks ago the stars lined up in a way that allowed me to take a few days off before picking up my kids at Summer Camp in Brevard North Carolina. In summers past, I have taken some really nice routes up to North Carolina from Mississippi, but never one through the Georgia Highlands.
After looking over the route at www.georgiaoverland.com it looked like a superb way to burn 3 days and 3 nights in the cooler mountains of North Georgia
I generally fly by the seat of my pants on my backcountry trips due to the distances I have to travel to get to the places I want to go. Because of this I had no idea what time I would begin and what time I would end so I gave myself a little cushion time so I would not be in a hurry.
The Traverse is designed as an East to West route with turn-by-turn directions at every waypoint. I had to ignore the "turn lefts" and make them "turn right" but basically I just downloaded the .gpx file so graciously provided on the Georgia Overland site and followed the line.
Looking at this route on Google Maps I just had to laugh. What the hell are all those dots? I don't know about this. I even broke out the Paper maps atlas of Georgia and was going to just trace the route and use Google Maps as I went.
Luckily after downloading the route into GAIA GPS with just route and waypoints it got much less busy and intimidating. I downloaded the area along the path of the route onto my iPad Pro and decided this deal was doable.
Disclaimer. Of the thousands of miles I have driven backroads and trails in the US I have never been one to follow someone else's route blindly. That's just not my thing but heck, after reading some of the reports on the trip on various forums I took a leap of faith and loaded up and pointed the 1998 Land Cruiser northeast.