July Event: Hurricane Creek July 12-14

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I've had this plate since about 1988 and it's lived in my desk drawer since then. I was so excited to get it way back then but VA required tags on the front and back so I had nowhere to put it. Then I left VA but was without a truck. Then it just kinda got forgotten about. I had to ask Jay if the magazine was even still around. So I rocked an old school plate from my youth on this trip.

Oh, yeah, I also added the Hi Lift mount. Sarah digs it and it keeps the thing from cluttering up the inside. Too bad it's exposed to the weather when it's mounted.

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lt1fire said:
Great pics.


So Brian now all the secrecy is over, are you going to post up a trip map for the rest of us to do at our leisure. :cheers:
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Yeah, I'll have to figure out the best way to do it. I used our Samsung Tab2 with Backcountry Navigator Pro to do the mapping. It has a 2013 US Forest Service map as an available map option. Ended up doing screen shots of the tablet, then emailing them to myself to print out at work, to hand out as we finished a leg. I'll have to do the same thing for the entire route, but the detail won't be good for posting on here.
 
GarnerFJ40 said:
Yeah, I'll have to figure out the best way to do it. I used our Samsung Tab2 with Backcountry Navigator Pro to do the mapping. It has a 2013 US Forest Service map as an available map option. Ended up doing screen shots of the tablet, then emailing them to myself to print out at work, to hand out as we finished a leg. I'll have to do the same thing for the entire route, but the detail won't be good for posting on here.
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Not to sound like a stick in the mud, but I hope you won't post it on the forum, but instead unicast it to folks who want it via email or something else. With these pictures, and the power of google, we'd have every mud-slingin' yahoo in 10 counties tearing up the trails in no time. JMO. Hate I missed this - I was sweating my ass off in the garage :(

:beer: Ramon
 
mtweller said:
Not to sound like a stick in the mud, but I hope you won't post it on the forum, but instead unicast it to folks who want it via email or something else. With these pictures, and the power of google, we'd have every mud-slingin' yahoo in 10 counties tearing up the trails in no time. JMO. Hate I missed this - I was sweating my ass off in the garage :(

:beer: Ramon
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This is what I was worried about with my picture album...I had it locked down but everyone would have to send a request to view it so I unlocked it. Would y'all be opposed to me locking it back up and just requesting access?
 
A great looking trip. David, I can't thank you enough for giving Red such a super home. It seriously feels great seeing it on the trail. I know that may sound odd but I think you get it. Joanna, your photos are awesome. Thanks for sharing.

Rice
 
NCNole said:
This is what I was worried about with my picture album...I had it locked down but everyone would have to send a request to view it so I unlocked it. Would y'all be opposed to me locking it back up and just requesting access?
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Johnny, are we up for hosting pics on the website so that only registered members can access? I'd say lock it for now Joanna... I can also post the map on the website so registered users only can access...
 
GarnerFJ40 said:
Johnny, are we up for hosting pics on the website so that only registered members can access? I'd say lock it for now Joanna... I can also post the map on the website so registered users only can access...
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Yup, easily doable. We can upload them to the site and publish the pictures page on a private webpage so only logged-in users can see it.
 
I'm not a huge fan of restricting access or knowledge of how to find public land. Never have and never will but if that's what the group wants to do i'll just get it of the website or if Brian wants to give me the road numbers i'll just find it on my own map.
 
lt1fire said:
I'm not a huge fan of restricting access or knowledge of how to find public land. Never have and never will but if that's what the group wants to do i'll just get it of the website or if Brian wants to give me the road numbers i'll just find it on my own map.
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I agree with the spirit of your argument, but in practice it's proven to be a bad idea. Ask me how badly I want to go back to Cullowhee. Once these spots get popularized via the web, they wind up getting shut down due to irresponsible people who don't tread lightly. Luckily, HC doesn't seem to have the same draw, but after seeing the pictures I'm surprised.

:beer: Ramon
 
I'm not going to get into a Cullowhee argument again. Ask me how much I wanted to actually go for the first time but could never get any people on the interwebs to give me directions for when I had time to go and since my crazy work schedule back then didn't sync up with different trips that different groups put on I never made it. :doh:I see how it went down differently, but that's neither here nor there and I respect POV as only personal experiences can form them.


Like I said this was a group event and if the majority doesn't want the directions on this thread that's fine with me.
 
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Rice said:
David, I can't thank you enough for giving Red such a super home. It seriously feels great seeing it on the trail. I know that may sound odd but I think you get it.

Rice
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Thanks Rice. That means a lot. I really do love driving it and have a strange feeling that it's alive and I am just it's caretaker.
 
mtweller said:
I agree with the spirit of your argument, but in practice it's proven to be a bad idea. Ask me how badly I want to go back to Cullowhee. Once these spots get popularized via the web, they wind up getting shut down due to irresponsible people who don't tread lightly. Luckily, HC doesn't seem to have the same draw, but after seeing the pictures I'm surprised.

:beer: Ramon
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I don't think they can close it down, as there is private property back there, and the FS road is the only means to get there. They could probably gate it, and only those that live back there and the FS would have access to the keys, effectively "shutting" it down.

I'm not going to post a mapof the specific route, but obviously we did Hurricane Creek and Max Patch Mountain. Both nights we slept in Tennessee. So, if you have a reliable FS road map, you can figure out where we were...

Al, I'll copy you in on the map .jpg that I'll send out to the attendees. They have paper versions, but I'll email everyone (in the club) a copy that wants one.

Side note, Jason the two turkeys that Steven and I saw were gray/smoke phase wild turkeys. Had to ask my boss, he's a turkey hunter, and evidently they're not very common to see... along with our 2 bears and owls we saw between the two trips...
 
GarnerFJ40 said:
Side note, Jason the two turkeys that Steven and I saw were gray/smoke phase wild turkeys. Had to ask my boss, he's a turkey hunter, and evidently they're not very common to see...
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I have only seen a handfull of those in 25+ years of chasing those birds. It is relatively rare to see.
 
GLTHFJ60 said:
Jay, what is that on the back of your taco? A camper? I've never seen one like that before.
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It's a Flippac, I found it used a month ago and have been using the heck out of it.

Jay
 
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