Ride to Helen, GA 10/25

[the_Journeyman]

I'll be starting in Waynesville (where I live) and taking a day ride to Helen, GA.  If you're not familiar, Helen GA is a little town in north GA that looks just like a alpine German town.  Supposed to be neat to see, and I've never been there.  There's some good roads between the Waynesville/Asheville area and Helen it looks like.

Here's the proposed route:

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&saddr=Waynesville,+NC&daddr=Cashiers,+NC+to:Highlands,+NC+to:Dillard,+GA+to:Tiger,+GA+to:Batesville,+Habersham,+Georgia,+United+States+to:Sautee,+GA+to:Helen,+GA+to:Rainbow+Springs,+NC+to:HIghlands,+NC+to:Balsam+Grove,+NC+to:Sunburst,+NC+to:Waynesville,+NC&hl=en&geocode=&mra=ls&sll=35.287106,-83.017502&sspn=0.419802,0.617981&ie=UTF8&ll=35.092945,-83.233795&spn=0.841608,1.235962&z=10

Post up if interested, and I'll get some details worked out.  I do plan on leaving Waynesville around between 8AM and 9AM

The map says 7 hours, but an hour or more can be knocked off the end if the section of 64 past Cashiers, NC and NC215 are eliminated.

JM

JM

[smooth]

Looks like you've got a nice route planned. The ride to Helen was nice last time I was down (about 15 years ago).
I wouldn't mind to make it, but that's too much in one day starting from Charlotte.

[the_Journeyman]

I'm going to have to postpone this a couple weeks, I need new rear brake pads & won't be able to pick them up until the day this ride was supposed to happen.  Be looking for this to happen the 1st weekend AFTER Halloween weekend.

JM