My 3 oldest kids and i went into the horsepasture just before it closed with some friends. Here are a couple of pics. Not much but the horsepasture isn't the challenge it used to be either.
pics from horse pasture
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Still very cool and a great place to take the family.
35inchoverdrive
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When did they close it? My wife and I drove through there once in our '85 60. It seemed like a pretty cool place. I'm sorry I never got to wheel it before they turned it into a gravel road.
Cool! Back in the day it was pretty gnarly in places.
When the State bought the tract I was fortunate to take the surveyor
crews in for their GPS mapping. We had keys to ALL gates.
Some of the trails were so overgrown we had to "blaze" a path.
They had started the job and realized the non-locker J##ps they were using were not
up to the task. They called me to help get them through the place.
Hehe...they knew they needed a lockered Cruiser to get the job done
and rescue any stuck J**ps.
Great memories.
When the State bought the tract I was fortunate to take the surveyor
crews in for their GPS mapping. We had keys to ALL gates.
Some of the trails were so overgrown we had to "blaze" a path.
They had started the job and realized the non-locker J##ps they were using were not
up to the task. They called me to help get them through the place.
Hehe...they knew they needed a lockered Cruiser to get the job done
and rescue any stuck J**ps.
Great memories.
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seems it opens back up in sept. Not very sure but it opens for deer/bear season etc.
35inchoverdrive
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How did you land a chance to do that? I bet that was awesome. Did you just know one of the surveyors, or did someone from the State ask for your help?
Ok, that's good. I thought that they had closed the place for good, rather than having it open seasonally. I thought that would have been keeping up with the current trend, if they had spent tons of money to pave all the obstacles and turn the whole place into a gravel rode, and *then* shut it down to waste the maximum amount of taxpayer dollars.
Southeast Overland
Get lost! Go explore!
It is opened seasonally (at least last I heard). I believe it is opened seasonally for hunting.
The surveyor rang me up. He knew I had a locked F&R Cruiser w/ winch and asked for my
assistance. I wasn't paid but I would have paid him for the chance to do the
job. Somewhere I have a pic of ol Gundy sitting atop Pinnacle Mountain.
May have been the last truck to ever scale the mountain.
Some of the silt ponds in the HP were slick as ice. Lots of water crossings.
I have some video of an UC group trip through the HP before the "improvements".
It was about a dozen or more Cruisers. Great memories.
You should check out the Muster Grounds. Easy fun trip.
35inchoverdrive
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I'd like to. I never did get out to that trail. I'm a little far away now though. It would be a pretty big haul from VA.
Never forget first I met Dave, we had gone down when it was still "a trail". Remember that David? Must have been 14 years ago. Jeff in his 55, me in my 60 and Mike in his (now mine) 40. Good times.
Oh yeah...The 3 Stooges were camping down at Laurel Creek if memory serves me correctly.
Those were the good old days. Didn't I bring some Pumpkintown Spring Water along?
Hey Mongo, you still have that VCR tape with the Gundy trail riding?
I've lost mine. I'd kill to get that thing copied.
I've got tape of Mike doing the Washout down by Bear Pen. Man that was fun.
We about lost Mike in the wheel stand section. That's your 40 now. It would be nice for you to have those old videos.
Tell ya what...you mail me that tape and I'll pay to get all my old tapes and that one transferred to DVD and burn us all some copies and return your tape intact.
I have lots of tape. Your 60 in the HP. The gang at GSMTR. Hush Hole. Muster Grounds.
Hours and hours of some exciting stuff. Water crossings etc , you name it.
The GSMTR stuff is priceless.
The Fla Wild Boys doing #2 is UNBELIEVABLE. Roll overs and wheel stands galore.
The mudhole films at Muster Grounds with the gang is awesome.
Capt'n....if Mongo can send me the tape I'll burn copies for all who want them.
I've got a ton of film of the then named Tippy doing some crazy stuff.
Those GSMTR tapes are a priceless preservation of a forever lost world.
Heck it is all gone now. I'd like for all to have a DVD for old times sake.
Sounds like a good project.
Hey david where these were from?
BAck in the day I saved anything that had UC on it. I think these were off the original website.
BAck in the day I saved anything that had UC on it. I think these were off the original website.
Left to right top to bottom.
Sumter National forest. "Man that whole looks deep. Go get David...he'll try it.
He's locked." That's the 1st pass. I backed up and locked ol Gundy up for the second pass and
made it out.
Uwharri camping trip.
Henry Cox in Sumter National Forest fording the beaver pond that flooded the trail.
About 20 or so yards further the pond got so deep the bow wake went over our hoods.
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We need to plan a day trip and go back the main road is open year round now. Not sure if you can get to the lake or not though.
I agree, waiting on a new windshield but that should be done soon.