Well, Saturday is no day to go up there, but here is a video of a Saturday run anyway. I won't be going back on a Saturday again, just too congested!

This is US129, yes, the one and only US129 - as you run north, up the south face of Blood Mountain, south of Blairsvillle, Georgia. If you push it, Fontana is about 1 1/2 hours from the top of Blood Mountain (the end of this video). I am 45 to 50 minutes from home - and this area is HIKING CENTRAL, so you know I am up there a lot !!!

As you can see, visibility around the curves is good and the speed limit is, I THINK, 40 or 45! You can have fun at 10 over, and have a BLAST if you push it farther than that.

LEO presence can be worst than the Dragon - and this was my first run so I was kinda keeping it cool until about four minutes in... and even after that, to some extent.

I know you can't tell, but over the course of this run (which I think is about 6 miles, maybe 7 or 8) - you climb from something like 1200 feet to over 3400 feet! Coming down, you don't need no gas pedal, but brakes are a nice accessory.

Blood Mountain (Georgia's Dragon?) - YouTube