Logging/Gas road beside my house.

Jeepjeepster · **Posted:** Thu Mar 30, 2006 6:45 pm

I love driving around in the hills. This is the first good day weve had for spring so I headed back up the mountain. I have about 26 pics.

Remember that a hill is alot steeper than it looks on camera. I tried to keep it level to show them good.

Going up the hill.

First switch-back

Second switch-back

Hill just after turning

On the ridge.

Dont make fun of my mud hole. Its actually about 1 1/2 feet deep. I hate mud anyway.

The turn off I take on the trail

The main road goes just about 1/4 of a mile on around to a gas well but a tree fell across the road.

It was kinda hard getting up the hill with the stock tires and the locker I have sitting in the back of the jeep in a box didnt help to much. Need to get that in sometime.

Had to get a tree out of the road.

Moving along.

Dont think my red devil can get this one out of the way.

I got out and walked the rest of it and wouldnt do it without my locker and skids I have coming tomorrow. Its some rough stuff. I think a bigger lift would be nice also. That front skid got used a couple of times.

Couple of pics after the tree.

I stopped after this one. I was alone and started to feel alittle weird about getting that far away from the jeep without anyone with me. I think it loops back around and comes out on the main blacktop road, not to sure though.

I walked about a mile after I got out of the jeep and I was about to die. I am so out of shape. It felt great to see the jeep again.

Myke · **Posted:** Thu Mar 30, 2006 6:53 pm

Awsome Pics, I love to go on local trails like that by my house do it all the time. I know what your saying about the small mud holes (well small until your in them). I had to get a diesel truck (something like a c5000 to pull me out).

Where are you from? If your not to far from me maybe we could meet up and go on some of these trails.

Jeepjeepster · **Posted:** Thu Mar 30, 2006 6:54 pm

Eastern Ky(around pikeville) . I do not know anyone on lost thats within 3 hours of me.

pixeldzn · **Posted:** Thu Mar 30, 2006 8:28 pm

Fixed it and put the images in-line for you.

Jeepjeepster · **Posted:** Thu Mar 30, 2006 8:51 pm

pixeldzn wrote:

Fixed it and put the images in-line for you.

Thanks. I didnt think you all would want that many pics on here, thats why I just used links.

benmar2000 · **Posted:** Thu Mar 30, 2006 9:03 pm

Those made me home sick for West Virginia... :cry:

I miss just going out on old dirt roads and driving on the pipe lines and stuff... Thanks man.. That was great...

Ben

snowsport · **Joined:** Tue Oct 18, 2005 11:52 pm **Posts:** 1211

That is a great series of pictures of a beautiful trail. I love old trails like that one, it's my favorite kind of off-roading. thanks for putting those on.

Jeepjeepster · **Posted:** Thu Mar 30, 2006 9:37 pm

benmar2000 wrote:

Those made me home sick for West Virginia... :cry:

I miss just going out on old dirt roads and driving on the pipe lines and stuff... Thanks man.. That was great...

Ben

On pipe-lines?

I know my front skid was scraping along a gas pipe for awhile and I was alittle worried about that. I heard it hissing in a few spots. Bad welds I guess.

benmar2000 · **Posted:** Thu Mar 30, 2006 10:08 pm

Yeah.. There are places in WV where they have cleared out trails that have gas lines buried under them.. They are buried pretty deep and some of the pipelines are like 4ft in diameter or so... It was also kind of a generic term used for cleared trails for powerlines as well... They are fun to go on but sometimes they can get pretty hairy if you don't watch what you are doing..

Ben

LostRenegade · **Posted:** Thu Mar 30, 2006 10:37 pm

Looks like a great place to wheel. I wish I had trails by my house.

Liberator84 · **Posted:** Fri Mar 31, 2006 1:04 am

HEY!!! THATS MY OLD TRUCK!

SD-KJ · **Posted:** Fri Mar 31, 2006 1:18 am

Nice pictures, i would LOVE to have anything like that around here to drive on. I bet that area is really nice in the fall too.

-Nick

brpn#1 · **Posted:** Fri Mar 31, 2006 7:59 am

great pics.. some of those pics look like the private drive going to my driveway lol.. most of the fireroads open this weekend so next weekend we are going out.. how far are you from western NC? we are like 30 mins from TN here.. we could all get together or something one weekend.

Se7enLC · **Posted:** Fri Mar 31, 2006 9:56 am

That is just beautiful. THAT is the kind of trail I want to find up here in new england. Where are they all??

Jeepjeepster · **Posted:** Fri Mar 31, 2006 10:46 am

brpn#1 wrote:

great pics.. some of those pics look like the private drive going to my driveway lol.. most of the fireroads open this weekend so next weekend we are going out.. how far are you from western NC? we are like 30 mins from TN here.. we could all get together or something one weekend.

Im about 3 hours from johnson city. Its a stright shot on U23. Im on that road ALL the time. I was down through there last weekend going to bristol for the race.

blackjeep · **Posted:** Fri Mar 31, 2006 8:03 pm

beautiful, i'd be up there every day. do this again when it's all green.

Jeepjeepster · **Posted:** Fri Mar 31, 2006 11:15 pm

blackjeep wrote:

beautiful, i'd be up there every day. do this again when it's all green.

Will do! I wish I had some pics from last fall. I would like snow pics also but would never start up those hills in the snow.

Tokyojoe · **Posted:** Sat Apr 01, 2006 1:37 am

Hey Jeepjeepster,

Shouldn't this be in the "Post pics of your KJ" section?

Jeepjeepster · **Posted:** Sat Apr 01, 2006 11:00 am

Tokyojoe wrote:

Hey Jeepjeepster,

Shouldn't this be in the "Post pics of your KJ" section?

Umm, well. Idk, I guess, I figured more people would see it here and its really not all about my jeep. It can be moved if you like, IDC.

brpn#1 · **Posted:** Mon Apr 03, 2006 7:20 am

Jeepjeepster wrote:

Im about 3 hours from johnson city. Its a stright shot on U23. Im on that road ALL the time. I was down through there last weekend going to bristol for the race.

cool.. VTNomad is from Johnson City.. hopefully we can all get together this spring/summer and do something.. in a few weeks we are going to go and checkout this Unaka scenic byway.. its mostly forest roads.. we went on it some last year but it got dark.. here is a link..

http://gorp.away.com/gorp/activity/byway/tn_unaka.htm

anyways.. keep in touch.. we could maybe make a road tip up near you if you find something cool..

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