Sorry - We are experiencing technical difficulties...and yes the trails are still closed.
Friday, February 19, 2010 at 8:51AM Yesterday brought a ton of folks to the trails to ride with a closed gate. The Hotline said it was open...
That's strange, I know I closed it after the snow ride, but sure enough it was my voice saying it was open....strange.
We found out via a message left on the system from our hotline provider that they moved us to a new computer system and for us to double check our greeting message for accuracy. It wasn't. They posted our "open" message by mistake. Dang... Sorry for any inconvenience and confusion this caused.
So the burning questions is still - "When do they open?".
The answer: When they thaw out and then dry out. We still have snow/frozen trail in sections. Yes it will be in the 60s and sunny this weekend and hopefully this will rid the mud.
Thanks for your patience.
Jay Wilkes
Pres- SORBA Woodstock
Reader Comments (7)
thanks for the hard work and we know you wanna open the trails too keep up the good work...
Alright, it's time to get the pitch forks and torches, just kidding.
Durn, I don't feel like driving out to Chicopee. My fingers are crossed for Sunday.
WTF. Lets ride already.
Every trail in Ga. is open except Blankets. What's up???
seriously its redonkulous.
Blankets has different soil conditions than most other trails in GA. It is located directly in the middle of the 5 mile wide "Gold Mine Vein" that stretches all the way past Dahlonega. The soil here has a high concentrate of very pure "red GA clay". This clay runs deep and cannot drain water when frozen. It is very suceptible to freeze/thaw cycles. On the flip side, in the summer when temps are high, it is very efficient as draining water fast. That's the reason the trail is open in the summer after rains when other trails are closed.