Brown Mountain questions.....

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GSRswapandslow

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so i just got an xj last week....and I just want somewhere to go mess around to check things out with it. it's just been lifted (4.5") and has 34x9.5's on it now...so i know it's over kill (from what i've read) but would it even be worth going to Brown Mountain? I work in Lenoir and it's only like 25 min from work....so i was thinking about popping over tomorrow after work and riding around some. I mean, it's just $5 so not much to loose i'd guess.

I looked on the map and it only shows 2 trails i can ride on...and only 6 miles....fairly short, but is there ANYTHING on the trails?

oh, and can you ride at night there?
 
Off road wise, I went up it in a stock Land Rover Discovery.

I can't say anything bad about my brand, but I'm sure you can deduce from there.

If you are going for wheeling, this ain't it. But if you are going for a fun weekend of camping in the woods, its solid.
 
i'm actually just going....so that i have something to do in my jeep lol. I went down a private log trail last night, and it was too short to have fun....so i told the gf i'd take her tonight after work. she's VERY much not used to anything 4x4 and got scared at the Farm....so I'm gonna take her to Brown Mountain, then URE this weekend, then Mountain City...and just let her see that it's safer than she thinks.
 
I used to ride my Honda XR a ton at Brown. It is awesome. Take 2b (first left) straight out of the parking lot and then try to stick to the one way trails. The place is down right spooky sometimes when you are riding in control as far to the right as possible, then you round a turn to see someone with no helmet drifting a race quad straight towards you!

Trail 4 is good if there aren't any people out. Third gear and jump some stuff!

WORTH every nickle they charge to ride a bike out there. If you haven't been there buy a map when you get your pass. I used to alway click neutral and coast back down to the parking lot.... too much fun!

Damn I'm wishing I still had my bike now!!!
 
BIGWOODY said:
How is it for a dirt bike? Fast, slow, short, worth going from Greensboro for a day ride?
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I've been several times, but not in the last 4 years. I think it is awesome. It became my favorite place to ride for a little while. I haven't been to Brushy though, which I've seen you say is awesome. There are both fast and slow trails. Definitely worth going. IRRC it was about a 2.5 hour drive from GSO. Maybe a little less. We use to always start out on trail 1a, then work our way to the top. We always took trail 9 when heading back down. Man, I am getting pumped just thinking about the good times! I would like to ride there again some day.
 
You can ride the whole place in a day. I would usually put 75 miles or so each day and you knew you had riden! There are slow and fast areas. Slow through some of the single track was fast! Stick to the single track and haul ass was always my plan...

***There is one section (I think trail 2) that has a mud hole after a sharp left that drops that will eat you alive. You could swim in the darn thing!!! A pal hit it one day while we were racing eachother and it swallowed the entire bike. Bad news.
 
It's a cool place to go. It's nothing to try to wheel hard on, but it's a nice place to be in the woods and drive around. I take my 4runner on 255s (34x10) down there every blue moon and have a good time just trail riding. The top of trail 1 is cool, because you can drive around on some solid rock.
 
Brushy kicks ass. We rode all the hard stuff one day and it was HARD. We kept seeing signs that said "Expert" with a bypass, then one that said "Advanced Expert" with a bypass, then "Experienced Advance Experts Only" with a bypass. Of course we kept saying we could ride anything. I have never seen another trail like that since.

Brushy is expensive compared to Brown.
 
frankenyoter said:
Brushy kicks ass. We rode all the hard stuff one day and it was HARD. We kept seeing signs that said "Expert" with a bypass, then one that said "Advanced Expert" with a bypass, then "Experienced Advance Experts Only" with a bypass. Of course we kept saying we could ride anything. I have never seen another trail like that since.
Brushy is expensive compared to Brown.
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We rode the advanced expert single tracks...holy cow...I ride pretty well but that was difficult to get through without going down. I came out the end and waited for close to 15 minutes on my buddies, both of them went down several times. I enjoyed riding the difficult trails but it took the ride from fun, to damn near stressful.
I'll be checking out Brown this weekend if the weather is decent.
 
well i almost had an asthma attack at work today...so it was a no go. tomorrow is my anniversary so it's a DEFF no go.... maybe friday, but prob not....gonna try to hit up URE saturday
 
here she be
 

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Clean XJ, Im sure you know this, but I would get recovery points, and basic tools including a jack and full size spare before wheeling anywhere. I do not wheel alone, but I still keep all that with me, when wheeling alone its even more important.
 
Remember the last time you took a "new" vehicle to URE...dont do that with this one.

As for Brown its pretty cool for stockish rigs to do some trail riding and whatnot. On a bike its a lot of fun. It can be pretty rough on tires but other than that a good day ride.
 
haha...yeah..don't wanna do that mess again. but if i do...no big deal, i'll just do the 4.6 stroker i'm gonna do earlier lol


as for a spare, i have another 34x9.5 sitting at rides...just gotta get by and grab it. i do need a jack though, might swing by tractor supply tomorrow at lunch and get one.


recovery points....that's needed, but will have to wait till i do the exo in a month or 2. i figure i might as well just wait till then instead of buying 2 new bumpers now and scrapping them later
 
I have those exact same tires.

Except for driving on pavement, they are awesome. Air down to 10 psi and its like riding on air.
 
thanks man




well, sick as hell....i went last night to brown mountain. I had a lot of fun...until the trail (1) just kinda disappeared on us (my g/f and i were the only ones on the whole damn mountain). We went up 1 as far as we could...it there was a large clearing. On the way into the clearing there was a yellow sign that said "Miller Family Property Line." At the very back of the clearing...there was a trail, but it was very narrow and farily steep. I went up it some, but it just seemed to only get narrower at the top, and did not look like it was a Jeep permisable trail, so we backed down and went back and went up trail 8.

Top of 8 is the big flat rock area...so we went around that....and followed the trail to another big flat rock...and then through the woods and it got narrower and narrower... So i get to another clearing that's sloping down...and the trail just seems to disappear..so we turned around and went out.

All in all...it's EXTREMELY easy, but fun none-the-less. I went through the big mudhole thinking it would be deep...just to find out it barely comes halfway up my tires lol.


but, anyone have any ideas about the trail just ending?? it's supposed to loop around i thought
 
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