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Wed June 10th - MMRanch staging visitors from the far West.    
Thur June 11th -  Oldfeller and Dave already there by cabin #4
Fri June 12th - MM's group packs up and headto Blue Ridge Campground 
Sat June 13th -
Sun June 14th -
Mon June 15th -
Tue June 16th -
Wed June 17th - Pack up and head home.


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WE ARE STILL TOO FAR OUT FOR ANY FORM OF REAL WEATHER ACCURACY .... it is all guesstimates right now.   The forecast tightens up at 2 weeks out but it will always say some chance of showers (mainly because up in the mountains there is always that chance).   Look at the individual days for the amount of precipitation, those 0.2" days are a heavy morning mist which also always happens all the time up in the mountains.

We've been through this before so you will always get you a 10 day out cancellation warning in case of fairly well predicted heavy bad weather (in time to get your money back on a cabin reservation).   If you are tenting, you will get cold at night and a bit dew wet each morning -- count on it.   So bring a bag and a blanket or two.

http://www.accuweather.com/en/us/cruso-nc/28716/month/2096614?monyr=6/01/2015

..... and count on it, you will meet up with a rain cloud at least once during the trip.   Stop and eat lunch or dinner, the road will be drying by the time you are done.  

Or ride on and get soaked, we have done it both ways.   (you dry out in an hour or so anyway)

Actually I misread your "j" for an "i"   (eyes ain't what they used to be) and Project fi is the new Google project where they are becoming a wifi based cell phone carrier that bounces freely between multiple carriers and any available wifi hot spots.

Fj makes sense, it will be good see you when you arrive.

This will be one of our middle sized groups, we have gotten as many as 12 people on a few of the earlier trips but this one seems to be around 7-8 at this point in time.

Still that is a group and this will be a RIDE .....

Neilap wrote on 05/20/15 at 06:41:30:


The Dragon Run is what we call our group gatherings in the Tennessee and North Carolina area.  The name comes from the original gathering location at Deals Gap, NC - which has the Tail of the Dragon (Route 129) which has 318 curves in 11 miles.  More recently the trip has morphed into being located at the Blue Ridge Campground which is about 1.5 hours from the Dragon....although last year and this year there will be another ride scheduled to be based at the Deals Gap Resort/Campground and the dates are picked to match up with the Wounded Warrior event held there.

This particular event will have a few folks meeting at MMRanch's house before moving on to the Blue Ridge Campground..while some of us are going directly to the campground.

Everyone is welcome to come, we ride at a safe pace...on occasion a few riders may feel the need for speed - but then pull over and wait for the rest to catch up before moving on.  On the Tail of the Dragon we may spread out and be a mile apart - but there is a nice scenic overlook at the end where we can stop and collect each other.  We make fuel and rest stops at 100 mile intervals as that is about all the gas capacity we have.

Or a 32 mile long road that is so curvy it puts the Dragon to shame, and all the lane markings in the turns are worn off the road from tires scrubbing across them all the time ......

Where beautiful sweet smelling mountain flowering plants grow out to the edge of the road just to give you something nice to smell while you are all leaned over good.

Where the Monarch butterflies come out to greet you, and will leave little angel shaped fairy dust marks on your shirt to remind you of the trip.

Oldfeller--FSO wrote on 05/20/15 at 08:22:33:

I was actually more surprised back when I learned that, contrary to what 'Dirty harry' said in his movies, the .44 magnum was never 'the most powerfull handgun in the world' that honor, at the time, fell to the old 44-40  

Art Webb wrote on 05/20/15 at 09:04:46:



I'll blow your mind a little more about Dirty Harry's .44 magnum -- the original black powder pistol loadings for the .44 Colt Walker long cylinder percussion cap pistol model easily exceeded the energy levels of the current 2015 "lawyer loadings" in the .44 magnum.

HOWEVER, certain handloaded concoctions put together for a certain Ruger Super Redhawk clearly exceeded both old rounds.

Dave wrote on 05/20/15 at 09:32:37:

this pic makes me sad....that I won't be on that road with Y'all next month