Mensra and I completed out 2025 Blue Ridge Mountains trip this past Thursday. Efair had initially linked up with us but a situation caused him to return home the next morning. We are already discussing a 2026 trip as there were two routes in the plan we didn't get to and more that we could try. For La Bête and I, we drove 2700 miles in six days.
This was our second visit to the Blue Ridge Mountains and tackling some of the technical rides in the region while enjoying the fall changing of the leaves . The scenery was beautiful and the rides was quite spectacular and challenging in many ways. There were a few roads where I was thinking that were possibly not quite SLK friendly. I am going through about 26 hours of dash cam footage, so will be adding pictures to this thread as I work through the material.
The trip of me started on 12 October (Sunday) as I drove from my home in Kansas to Nashville TN. Here I RON while visiting my granddaughter and picking up my son Micheal. The next morning we were on the road to Deals Gap to drive the Tail of the Dragon.
At Deal's Gap.
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We drove the Tail three times (Micheal twice I once) then on to The Rattler. Micheal drove The Rattler as I had already done so in 2023.
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Freguson's didn't have any good Rattler swag.
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We finished the day at Wytheville where we linked up with Mensra and efair. I took this picture before we entered the hotel, so I didn't know that efair needed to leave the next day. It was the only picture of the three SLKs I was able to take.
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(to be continued)
This was our second visit to the Blue Ridge Mountains and tackling some of the technical rides in the region while enjoying the fall changing of the leaves . The scenery was beautiful and the rides was quite spectacular and challenging in many ways. There were a few roads where I was thinking that were possibly not quite SLK friendly. I am going through about 26 hours of dash cam footage, so will be adding pictures to this thread as I work through the material.
The trip of me started on 12 October (Sunday) as I drove from my home in Kansas to Nashville TN. Here I RON while visiting my granddaughter and picking up my son Micheal. The next morning we were on the road to Deals Gap to drive the Tail of the Dragon.
At Deal's Gap.
We drove the Tail three times (Micheal twice I once) then on to The Rattler. Micheal drove The Rattler as I had already done so in 2023.
Freguson's didn't have any good Rattler swag.
We finished the day at Wytheville where we linked up with Mensra and efair. I took this picture before we entered the hotel, so I didn't know that efair needed to leave the next day. It was the only picture of the three SLKs I was able to take.
(to be continued)
