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It has been raining here heavily on and off for the past several days. It is typical late spring weather with sudden straight-line winds. Weather persons cannot reliably predict more than 48 hours. They have called for heavy storms on 6/19 in the long-term forecast for several days.
We headed out at 6am. They had changed the forecast to sun and cooler temperatures for the day. We had some left-over light rain on and off as we first started out. We dropped the tow rig in the store parking lot and got rolling toward Caryville TN at 8:30 am. We rolled up Mountain Road to get to the Northwest tip of the park. Entering in at Caryville flats.
Mountain Rd is a steep winding paved road that is wide enough for two, then it narrows...
You turn on to an unmaintained county road Tennessee valley road. We found ourselves needing to air down here and had to get into 4L very early on.
I snapped a photo for all the people that ask if I use my limb risers.
I guess that time they were tree risers. There was a lot of blow-down and it is very overgrown on this lesser used area of the park. (You guys are missing out that ignore the north end!)
We got to the Flats and it was a stunning beautiful day already.
As we turned away from overlooking Caryville we saw the Elk that live here. I know we have a lot of you out west that this is no big deal. This is part of a repopulation plan as there were no elk here for a lot of years.
A short drive west of the Flats and we picked up 71a.
After this we got to the middle of 71 headed out to 56.
Needles to say this rut was a bit of a lean.
You might say, Hey Steve, why a picture of a random boulder? Well, this is much more downhill than it appears, I had the rail speed control on 1 mph... When we dropped over this and the back tire gave out it's "wave" I swear we both thought we were going over the hard way. Then the slight throttle nudge of the trail cruise control pulled it back down.
just after this, as we were alone, we had to make the decision to hook up the rear winch. Crazy leans, using only the side biters on the swampers, and having the body mere fingers thickness off the rut-wall ensued.
We unhooked and dodged an unused section of trail where the washout was well over 4 feet deep.
Shortly thereafter we hit 56 which leads to 86, both of these follow round rock creek which is a pretty TN mountain creek.
At this point we made it to trail 55, this is a moderate rated trail with lots of sections that would make me rate it as a 6. We were on several great trails making our way east, but we did not take more pictures. I'll post some pictures later of the mud and skid scrapes after I pressure wash today. in the picture you'll notice the ARB summit bull bar helped keep the body off the turf. We put the flares back on here to minimize splash as it was a nice windows down kinda day, except when the biting marsh flies would visit that is.
We headed out at 6am. They had changed the forecast to sun and cooler temperatures for the day. We had some left-over light rain on and off as we first started out. We dropped the tow rig in the store parking lot and got rolling toward Caryville TN at 8:30 am. We rolled up Mountain Road to get to the Northwest tip of the park. Entering in at Caryville flats.
Mountain Rd is a steep winding paved road that is wide enough for two, then it narrows...
You turn on to an unmaintained county road Tennessee valley road. We found ourselves needing to air down here and had to get into 4L very early on.
I snapped a photo for all the people that ask if I use my limb risers.
I guess that time they were tree risers. There was a lot of blow-down and it is very overgrown on this lesser used area of the park. (You guys are missing out that ignore the north end!)
We got to the Flats and it was a stunning beautiful day already.
As we turned away from overlooking Caryville we saw the Elk that live here. I know we have a lot of you out west that this is no big deal. This is part of a repopulation plan as there were no elk here for a lot of years.
A short drive west of the Flats and we picked up 71a.
After this we got to the middle of 71 headed out to 56.
Needles to say this rut was a bit of a lean.
You might say, Hey Steve, why a picture of a random boulder? Well, this is much more downhill than it appears, I had the rail speed control on 1 mph... When we dropped over this and the back tire gave out it's "wave" I swear we both thought we were going over the hard way. Then the slight throttle nudge of the trail cruise control pulled it back down.
just after this, as we were alone, we had to make the decision to hook up the rear winch. Crazy leans, using only the side biters on the swampers, and having the body mere fingers thickness off the rut-wall ensued.
We unhooked and dodged an unused section of trail where the washout was well over 4 feet deep.
Shortly thereafter we hit 56 which leads to 86, both of these follow round rock creek which is a pretty TN mountain creek.
At this point we made it to trail 55, this is a moderate rated trail with lots of sections that would make me rate it as a 6. We were on several great trails making our way east, but we did not take more pictures. I'll post some pictures later of the mud and skid scrapes after I pressure wash today. in the picture you'll notice the ARB summit bull bar helped keep the body off the turf. We put the flares back on here to minimize splash as it was a nice windows down kinda day, except when the biting marsh flies would visit that is.
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