KENTUCKY GTG anyone? - DPChallenge Forums

03/10/2008 12:09:35 AM · #26

Beautiful! Now I'm just going to HAVE to join the GTG.

03/10/2008 12:12:16 AM · #27

Well the nature reserve is several hours from the breaks...

03/10/2008 12:25:10 AM · #28

I tried to google Breaks with not much luck. How long of a drive from Madison Co. (just south of Lexington)? Is this nature reserve (from the pic) in KY or Va? I'm starting to get excited about this GTG. Nervous 'cause I'm quite shy, ... but looking forward to it.

03/10/2008 07:10:10 AM · #29

Ok the pic is not from the Nature reserve it is from Breaks interstate park. The Breaks It is on the KY/VA border at Elkhorn City, Ky and Breaks, VA on Pine Mountain. The reserve that everyone is talking about in this thread is (I think) in Franfort. I would say from Richmond you are looking at 3hrs. You would come from Lex to 64 to the Mountain Parkway, through Salyersville to Prestonsburg on 23 to Pikeville. Once in Pikevill follow the signs to Elkhorn city and there will be signs directing you to the Breaks. Be sure to check the weather.

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03/10/2008 07:38:49 AM · #30

I'll double check the date, but I might also be interested. Gotta run, but I'll check in when I get home.

timfythetoo

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03/10/2008 07:43:37 AM · #31

Looks like just a 3 and half hour drive for us. We may be interested as well.

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03/10/2008 08:55:01 AM · #32

Originally posted by cynthiann:

I think from this view you are looking into Va but there are places you look from one state over into another.

philup

Canon EOS-5D

03/11/2008 04:47:05 PM · #33

Can some of you say what place you would like to have the gtg. The Nature Reserve in Frankfort or The Breaks in Elkhorn City. Just trying to get an idea on where most people want to gtg.

Thanks!!

03/11/2008 10:58:46 PM · #34

Guys I just mentioned the breaks because it is a beautiful Ky site that often gets overlooked. You all decide where you want to go. I did not mean to hijack the thread.

BTW here's another shot from the other night.

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03/11/2008 11:17:12 PM · #35

Originally posted by philup:

Can some of you say what place you would like to have the gtg. The Nature Reserve in Frankfort or The Breaks in Elkhorn City. Just trying to get an idea on where most people want to gtg.

Thanks!!

Frankfort gets my vote, just since it is closer. But I am flexible.

ApertureAshley

Nikon D40

03/12/2008 08:12:02 AM · #36

My votes for Frankfort as well, just b/c its close.....if the majority is closer to the breaks then I'll go there ;)

03/12/2008 08:39:57 AM · #37

Frankfort is closer to me and is a possibility. I probably wouldn't make the drive to Elkhorn City.

03/12/2008 08:45:56 AM · #38

I think I will be bowing out of the Frankfort GTG. If anyone is interested in going to the breaks sometime let me know and my wife and I could maybe meet you or at least give you good directions.

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03/16/2008 07:38:54 PM · #39

Was there a decision made regarding a date for this gtg?

philup

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03/17/2008 06:27:09 AM · #40

Originally posted by jpochard:

Was there a decision made regarding a date for this gtg?

April 19th. In Frankfort

timfythetoo

Apple iPhone 13 Pro

03/17/2008 06:44:31 AM · #41

Looks like Aimee and I should be there. We can confirm for sure as the date gets closer.

ApertureAshley

Nikon D40

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03/17/2008 08:37:20 AM · #42

Alright, so April 19th at the Nature Reserve in Frankort it is! :) I'm getting really excited! Hoepfully the weather will cooperate..

sabphoto

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03/17/2008 12:42:17 PM · #43

you all are breaking my heart...I wanna come!!! My house it right there in Georgtown too... (insert crying animation here). While you are there you have to stop in and get some Mexican food at Maranda's on I think it's US 60. And if anyone knows how to get to Switzer road (near the falls) you can find this covered bridge:

(which isn't actually red)

ya'll have fun and I hope all the weather holds out for ya.

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03/17/2008 11:00:04 PM · #44

Can't make it on the 19th, as I'll be headed north (Columbus) not south. I hope you all have a great time though!

philup

Canon EOS-5D

03/19/2008 12:14:50 AM · #45

Originally posted by timfythetoo:

Looks like Aimee and I should be there. We can confirm for sure as the date gets closer.

I'm out you all! sorry.

timfythetoo

Apple iPhone 13 Pro

03/25/2008 02:18:51 PM · #46

Looks like we won't be able to make the trip either. But Aimee and I are still interested in a future GTG.

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03/25/2008 02:48:43 PM · #47

I have come across a FREE opportunity to go to an EKU sponsored event at Keeneland. It includes a private tour of the stables, a course on reading the racing program and betting strategies and inside seating in the Phoenix Room with a buffett. Only 24 spots were available, so I'm kinda sorta leaning towards going. Of course, it lands on April 19th.

Maybe if you guys get back together at a later date I'd be able to come. It was really a hard decision to pass up my first GTG.

ApertureAshley

Nikon D40

03/25/2008 04:30:58 PM · #48

LOL, ok so it seems no one will be able to make it to the April 19th gtg, it would be just me huh?! :)

How about we all start throwing out dates and see which seems to work best for everyone else. I don't have any vacations/travel planned for the next few months so I can be very flexible. Let's just play it by ear!

04/03/2008 02:44:00 PM · #49

lol, sorry ashley. Sounds like a lonely GTG. How about mid-May? We may even be able to recruit more members.

So I have a Kentucky waterfall question.

In high school my buddies and I frequented this waterfall.

We called it Flat Rock Falls back then and it was privately owned. We used to jump off it all the time and so would many of the locals. It probably wasn't safe, you kinda had to jump sideways to avoid this one boulder and out enough to avoid some others. I often saw drunk rednecks jump off, sometimes with children in their arms.

A professor that I work with came in to show me some photos he took at a waterfall this week-end and I instantly recognized it. Evidently it's part of a park now and open to the public. When I told him I used to jump off it, he wouldn't believe me... and this is why. [thumb]665504[/thumb]

Has anybody been here before/after they filled it in? Does anybody know why they did that? Seems MORE dangerous to me(if that's why they did it) and definitely not nearly as pretty as it used to be.

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