We had fun getting off of Brasstown Bald last night. I was with two other journalists and several members of the Tour de Georgia media staff when we left the Observation Tower at about 9:15pm. We opened the door and walked directly into a cloud which was encircling the summit at the time. Visibility was so poor that a number of us stumbled down the stairs to the road because we couldn’t see the steps while standing upright.
Laura Bellinger was driving the van that I rode in from the summit to the 1-km-to-go parking lot, where my car was parked. She tried a variety of headlight configurations, but it was tough going until we sighted the double-yellow line after the top-most switchback turn on the way down. Thank God my car started.
By the time we drove the 3 kilometers down to the junction of Georgia Highway 180 and the 180 Spur, we were out of the clouds. I was back at my aunt Jane Kuykendall‘s place in the Atlanta suburbs by midnight or 12:30 I guess.