ARTI EVENTS
CORE
(required)
1. Kennesaw Mountain
2. Sope Creek
3. Blankets Creek
OPTIONAL:
1. Life College Trails
2. Silver Comet
3. Stamp Creek / Pine Log Mtn
4. East Palisades
5. Paddle the Hooch
Core
Event #2
Sope Creek
Includes:
Biking
Running
Minor Compass use
Required Gear:
Biking
gear (incl helmet!)
Running gear
Pen and Paper to write down answers
Compass
Water
There is a transition that is included in your time, so consider bringing
any gear that will help your transition speed.
Cautions:
Rules of the forest apply
Poison Ivy
Potential Snakes
Other
Notes:
Trails near the mill and along Sope Creek have many intertwining trails. Stick
to the instructions and you should find your way along the path
Ignore the scale on the map, it seems inaccurate.
Time: 1.5hrs - 2.5hrs
Trail Map: follow these marked trails
How
to get there:
You will park at the Columns Drive Parking Lot. Your car will be considered
your transition area.
From I75/I285 intersection on the NW side of Atlanta,
Take I285 East.
Take the Riverside Drive Exit and make a left at the light
Follow Riverside Drive several Miles through a couple stop lights to Johnson
Ferry Rd.
Make a LEFT on Johnson Ferry Rd
Go just across the bridge.
Make a LEFT on Columns Drive
Park at the lot at the end of Columns Dr. *You must have a yearly pass
or pay $2 to park!
Instructions
Note 1: Start your time as you leave the edge of the parking
lot.
Note 2: Think of the parking lot as a transition area,
keep the time running and transition swiftly.
Stage
1: (Yellow Line)Biking Sope Creek/Columns Dr.
The YELLOW line is tough to see on the map unless you zoom in some.
Head down columns drive and turn around just before the concrete median
starts at the Johnson Ferry Rd Stop Light, and head back to the parking
lot.
Head down the gravel path that heads off to the right. Mind the 10mph
speed limit, rangers will give you a ticket just think of it as a slight
break which everyone will observe.
Make a RIGHT when the bike trail heads up into the woods. Follow the
main path to Sibley Pond.
Question 1. Stand on the middle part of the Wooden deck at Sibley Pond. Using your compass determine, in degrees, the direction the deck planks point out into the water.
Head
back to the parking lot along the same trail.
Ride the columns drive road segment once more out and back Try to
pass someone this time!
Stage
2: (Red Line)Run to the Mill
Transition to the run. Once again head down the gravel path to the
right, pass the bike trail that goes into the woods, and make
a RIGHT on the
trail just before you get to the foot bridge. This trail follows
the stream that the bridge crosses.
Hang a RIGHT onto the steep rocky trail that comes down from the hill. The trail comes in at a sharp angle so you turn more than a 90 degree turn to the RIGHT. Just make sure you are going up hill. At the top of the hill the trail merges with the bike trail you were on earlier.
Take this trail to Sibley Pond again. Go a little past the pond and turn RIGHT on the intersecting trail. Along this trail there are a lot of little intersecting trails. The trails you want are more to the LEFT (use your map and common sense), they eventually lead to a small pull off near the mill ruins on Paper Mill Rd. At this pull off answer the next question.
Question 2. There is a sign marking the former city limits of Chattahoochee Plantation. What is the range of years that this was the city limits?
Go to the opposite end of the pull-off and find the mill ruins beside the Creek. Go to the side facing the Creek.
Question 3. There are several windows along this side. What are the supports made of that run across the top of these windows?
Stage
3: (Green Line)The Mill back to the Finish
Follow the trails that follow the creek. There are a lot of
ugly trails made by trail blazing so it may be a little
confusing as to which trails
to take. Your decision. Stay on trails that keep the
creek in
sight and you will be fine. On the borders of the park
you will run into
a man
made object that you would have to cross if you were
going to continue.
Question 4. What is the man made object that you see, but you DO NOT cross?
AGAIN
DO NOT CROSS this! ! ! It doesn’t go anywhere
fun.
TURN AROUND and head back the way you came until you
come to the first park trail that heads to the left
and up a
hill.
Take this
trail, while
going up the hill there will be houses on your left
and you will know you are on the edge of the park
boundary.
At
the top of the hill there will be a trail map and trail intersection.
Take the LEFT trail, it will run
along the
back of some houses
looking as if it just goes to the houses, but does
tuck back into the woods
then continues to the right.
At the next trail intersection and map, turn around.
You will see the trail you just came down and another
to the
right.
Take this
trail,
it will bring you back to the main bike trail.
Hang a left and head back
to the parking lot. Utilize your map.
Stop your time as you enter the parking lot.
Email
Us your answers
to these questions:
Your Team Name:
1. Using
your compass determine, in degrees, the direction the deck planks point
out into the water.
2. What
is the range of years that this was the city limits?
3. What
are the supports made of that run across the top of these windows?
4. What
is the man made object that you see, but you DO NOT cross?
5.
Your Total Time