mrb302
New Member
- Joined
- Sep 18, 2006
- Location
- Graham, NC
I took my first trip to URE and it was also my "new" used truck's first trip offroad since I've owned it. Just though I would share the experience...
I went over to the parking lot outside of Wolf Den Saturday morning. There I talked to a man and a lady in a red Jeep that had already been in and out. They said it was very slick. It had rained all day and night on Friday. I was a little concerned, but I followed a white jeep and a blue Cherokee in. The first time they stopped, I got out and talked with them a little. Luckily for me, the guy in the white CJ/TJ (?) knew the trails really well and they told me I could tag along with them.
We turned right off the main trail and went up a fairly steep hill climb. I made it 1/2 way up in 4high, but shifted into 4low after I started slipping on one of the steeper sections that had a big berm at the top of it. It was a good thing I did, because the last section had a few basketball sized rocks in the final hump.
SIDE NOTE: The pics don't do the hill justice, but my photographer had issues. She didn't "want to get her feet muddy"
As continued as a group with the 2 Jeeps and made it to a cool mud hole on Falls Dam trail.
Right as we cleared the hole, there was a traffic jamb with a Range Rover club coming the other way on the trail. The best part was watching a bone stock Disco damage the front "spoiler" / air dam thingy on some rocks while being towed out. The Rover "trail master" guy almost got in a fight with a Jeep guy because he was busting up rocks on the trial so that "his trucks" could make it. Although I'm new to the whole deal, it did seem rather jerky and selfish. Anyway, we decided to go back and play in the mud while the rest of the Rovers cleared the obsticle.
I went over to the parking lot outside of Wolf Den Saturday morning. There I talked to a man and a lady in a red Jeep that had already been in and out. They said it was very slick. It had rained all day and night on Friday. I was a little concerned, but I followed a white jeep and a blue Cherokee in. The first time they stopped, I got out and talked with them a little. Luckily for me, the guy in the white CJ/TJ (?) knew the trails really well and they told me I could tag along with them.
We turned right off the main trail and went up a fairly steep hill climb. I made it 1/2 way up in 4high, but shifted into 4low after I started slipping on one of the steeper sections that had a big berm at the top of it. It was a good thing I did, because the last section had a few basketball sized rocks in the final hump.
SIDE NOTE: The pics don't do the hill justice, but my photographer had issues. She didn't "want to get her feet muddy"
As continued as a group with the 2 Jeeps and made it to a cool mud hole on Falls Dam trail.
Right as we cleared the hole, there was a traffic jamb with a Range Rover club coming the other way on the trail. The best part was watching a bone stock Disco damage the front "spoiler" / air dam thingy on some rocks while being towed out. The Rover "trail master" guy almost got in a fight with a Jeep guy because he was busting up rocks on the trial so that "his trucks" could make it. Although I'm new to the whole deal, it did seem rather jerky and selfish. Anyway, we decided to go back and play in the mud while the rest of the Rovers cleared the obsticle.
