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January 12, 2007

First time to Tellico

I drove up to the Georgia cruisers home to meet up with Josh, the Georgia Cruisers President, and then caravan up to Tellico. It was a long trip driving up to Murphy first and then to the pay booth. We tried to call some people from the entrance of trail 2 but had no luck and just kept going to the state line camp site. The camp site, says Josh, has changed. It used to be just an open field and now it has actual bays with picnic tables, a fire ring and is gravel covered.  While it was daylight still we set up a tent and unloaded our trucks. We tried to set up a fire but it didn’t get going before we decided to do a night run. We ran trails 4, 6 and 5.

There were some gnarly passes that made us get out of our trucks but nothing that Josh or me had trouble with. No problems, just good fun ride at night.

The next day we got ready to go find the others that were supposed to come and ended up waiting for over two hours. Josh stayed at the camp site while I drove to the pay booth in search of more trucks. While Josh was waiting at the camp site an FJ cruiser driven by Bill joined us. When we finally decided to hit the trails two other LC trucks reached us. We started going up the trail 4 loop in the opposite way as we did the night before. (Bridge construction first.)  The FJ cruiser gave us a good show as the owner drove close to tipping the truck over twice.

At the first water crossing we stop for food and for a little touristy walk to a waterfall  downstream, while Josh replaced a Birfiled… or so we thought. We checked out the waterfall, took a couple of pictures it was a nice trek to the site. When we got back we found Josh putting the birfield back with nothing broken… it looked like he had a sticky locking hub.

Later on we took trail 8 loop. Ben, with an LC FJ60 started having fueling problems and we ended up replacing a fuel pump. Then we found a huge oil leak from the valve cover that turned out to be a pinched gasket picked up tools, some trash and the oil spill. We finished trail 8 at night fall. When we were getting closer to the waterfall Josh ran out of gas. It is always fun to try to siphon fuel out of a hose from another truck in the middle of the night. After some jokes and at around 7 pm. We got going again. The idea was for me to go back to camp and to bring the gas can but it was not necessary. We drove back to the camp site, said our good byes and proceeded to pack up.

It was an excellent time, too bad we didn’t meet with the rest of the Georgia cruiser members that went later in the day. Check out the pictures here. here is a GPS track line of the trails we did, it is rough but it will give you an idea.

Oscar Florez

VP Georgia Cruisers

TLCA # 15729

Trail Ride Report for Lake Allatoona – Saturday March 25^th, 2006

The March trail ride was on some trails near Lake Allatoona. Most of the group met at a McDonalds by the trailhead and went to Ken Sutz’s House/neighborhood to unload some rigs. We had 6 FJ40’s from the Georgia Cruisers attend, a Jeep, and Ken Sutz’s Bronco (GBR member but knows the trails very well so we let him come).

While the majority of the group was on the trail I was very late and rushing to try to get to the trail. I finally made it to the trail at around 11:00 am and met up with Oscar and Thomas who weren’t with the group either.

My group (who didn’t have much idea where we should ride) started to ride some trails with the only problem being what sounded like Oscars water pump going out. We finally got a hold of the other group and met them for lunch at a beach on the lake. At the beach we ate lunch and played in the water and on some obstacles on the beach.

After lunch we started to make our way out of the woods. Nothing dramatic happened the whole trip it was just a fun day in the woods. After we were done we went back over to Ken’s house to air back up and put trucks back on trailers. All in all it was a great day but next time I’ll make sure that I arrive on time.

Thanks to all who attended, and for those who did not, you missed a good ride and we look forward to seeing you next month at the shooting range near Wilson Shoals.

Josh Schmitt

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