Flatland Rd Suches GA and Two fire service roads 107 and 39

After our disappointing trip to Dawson Forest WMA we decided to roll a little farther north and to the west part of the Georgia Mountains. In a small quaint little town known as Suches Ga which is know to motorcyclist and the home of "Two Wheels Only" motorcycle camp and some good fishing at Dockery lake that has several campsites around the lake, we took Wolf Pen Gap Rd aka hwy 180. Flatland's Rd is located in the beautiful Chattahoochee National Forest, with access to the Appalachian Trail (Woody Gap) and not far from Vogel State Park. We arrived onto flatland road and our first adventure was to be able to travel up creek for a short distance and climb the bank onto a plateau where we followed the trail up through the canyon top of a hill with a pretty decent grade. If it's raining there is a good chance you will probably want to use 4wd it can become very slick and it has several ruts that have been washed out and several spots of light rock obstacles. I have posted several videos in this blog from the Go-Pro 3+silver. I just purchased this camera and tried it out in several different locations in and out of the jeep as well on my good friends "Doc's" hood. I've kept the videos short and tried to show the different elevations and some of the terrain. After our drive through Flatland's Rd we continued onto Vogel State Park where we decided to have lunch and get out and stretch our legs.

 I've learned over many trips of exploration that this fat boy does better knowing the cooler is loaded with food, also you never know when you will come up on that one spot that screams stop and look while there this would be a good place for a sammich! 

You can never go wrong with a ham sammich, pringles, beautiful girl friend and good friends. 

After a brief and chilly lunch we were off to explore Fire service road 107 which is actually West Wolf Creek Rd. The trail started off like all fire roads, trees, gravel and more trees. As we started our decent into the Chattahoochee Forest the scenery became more beautiful and we started driving along Wolf Creek, As we driving Thao ( the boss) spotted a black bear as we all came to a stop we lost the bear over the ridge, well just about 100 yards later I spotted an owl! I don't know what type of owl maybe a Barred Owl, but it was sitting so regal perched on a limb above the creek waiting for its lunch to come along.

We continued on through West wolf Creek road and the scenery became a vision splendor! There are several spots to camp along side the river and numerous hiking trails. Well the road came back to pavement like all trails do and we continued onto Fire rd 39. 

Well Fire road 39 is on Wolf Pen Gap road and is off the parking area halfway through. This road was in good shape you can tell it has been traveled and maintained somewhat, as we started our climb to the top the fog started to roll in and it was hard to see the scenery off to the left looking back down into the valley as we made a left turn the fog was gone and instantly clear. As we neared the summit of the mountain we could look down onto the valley and see the fog that we had driven through. 

This was at the top of Road 39, the fog would come and go but the ride was still very enjoyable and beautiful. After several miles and about 30 minuets the Question was asked where does this go? We all assumed that the road would dead end or come out somewhere! but where? when? do I have enough food? 

Well as any curious explorer would do we saw a side road and said mmm? where does this lead and we did what any group of curious people would do ! we turned. Well we found this beautiful little cascade and I was burning off some energy and thought I'd get that pic of Turtle stretching her legs. We got back to riding after a brief moment to get out of the jeep and we continued on our journey, Finally got that one beloved antenna bar to pop up and was able to get Google maps to give me an idea of where we might be! well we were the blue dot in the sea of green known as the Chattahoochee Forest then lost signal hahah. Fire service road 39 (Duncan Ridge Road) comes out in the Cooper Creek WMA. My friend Steven luckily showed me the Coopers Creek area week before so when we crossed Mulkey Gap Rd I sorta had an Idea where we were, thanks Steven. 

We stopped for a moment and I was able to coax her out of the warm jeep for a selfie then she went back in to being warm in the jeep. I would like to get back out to Coppers Crekk Wma and spend a full day there to do some more exploring, Steven showed me a cemetery that has tombstone dating back to the 1800's and is still visited by the families. The next adventure is going to be close to home as we prepare for what we call in the south a snow storm/ice storm cant wait for this to hit and have the opportunity with the Georgia Jeepers to provide help to those who need it, being pulled back onto the roads to delivering nurses and doctors to the hospitals and assisting people to get home.