Drive Out to McCloud Mountain – June 3rd 2017
We had a beautiful single day drive out to McCloud Mountain for lunch at the restaurant. Weather was looking dicey all week long, but Saturday morning turned up gorgeous. There were some great roads for the drive and the spectacular lunch time views capped it off. Peter and Paula designed a great route, with some real twisties through the Big Ridge State Park area, and some nice rolling valley farm lands, too. Every where we went, the two packs of Porsches turned some heads.
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- Meeting up at the Ingles on Emory
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- New Fave!
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- The new Targa
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- Milling about smartly
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- Peter gives the Safety Briefing
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- With his lovely assistant, Alice
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- And we’re off! First turnoff onto 441
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- Shaded hilly roads
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- Canopy roads galore
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- First Pit Stop! Weigels in Rocky Top
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- Heading into Jakesboro
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- Destination reached!
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- And that’s when we first saw The Bear
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- Soon to be awed by…
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- This view!
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- Sitting and chilling and ordering lunch.
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- View to the SW
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- View to the SE
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- “Ooooh… Ahhhh…”
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- Some of the cabins for rent.
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- House Mountain, 28 miles away. You can just make out the Smokies in the background.
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- Conversing
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- Mike and Teresa review the viewing map
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- More conversing
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- Ever the Geologist, checking out the conglomerate that caps the mountain.
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- Steve on top of the conglomerate
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- And then dessert
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- Then Peter and Paula cleaned out the old Spring Thing closet for Goodie Prizes.
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- GROUP SHOT!
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- Milling about, taking in the views one last time
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- And time to go…
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- Alice is ready!
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- “Backoff, dude…”
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- The Twisty Road back down the Mountain
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- View from the ridge road on top.
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- View down the ridge
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- LOTS of hairpins
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- We weren’t the only ones out on this glorious day
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- Heading out of Lafollette
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- Onramp to I-75 at a decent clip. This is near where we were “officially done”. Great job, Peter and Paula!!
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- Off topic, but came across this gem in a parking lot heading home. old Honda 550 Four Supersport… Old School, baby.
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- The McCloud Mountain View Map
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- Up the mountain we go!And they weren’t kidding!
