Newberry 2nd shift this week!
Where to wheel in the Low Country
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Newberry 2nd shift this week!
I don't know if you guys are redneck enough for this... but there is a mud racing track in Ridgeville. Supposedly they also have a "jeep trail", the local jeep club meets at the track. Low country 4x4 in West Ashley might have more specific info on the jeep trail.
I am. Let me know if you get up a contingent to show up the heeps.
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someone check it out to make sure there is a jeep trail and I am all for it......
depending on the date I am wanting to get off the pavement
I cannot find the website, but a few months ago I ran across a local 4x4 club's website that had pictures from the club meeting at the Ridgeville mud bog. They said there is a trail off the property that they can go 4wheeling on.
I'll get my friend in R'ville to check it out. They used to do a mud bog every week, but they stopped about a year ago.
I saw an ad on Craigslist about a club (new) in town that does club rides. I'll e-mail them and see what comes up.
Need to wheel
I saw an ad on Craigslist about a club (new) in town that does club rides. I'll e-mail them and see what comes up.
Need to wheel
Need to wheel
Shoulda come wheel at the Whee with us David. You and Scott wouldn't have believed the yotafest on the high bald last night.
Good wheeling, good company, good food, pretty women and fairly well-behaved dogs.
At least LCC was well represented. Brock was conspicuous in his presence with his shorts and hairy knees in the WNC mtn top breezes.
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YES I WAS...I sported shorts when we had 24 hours of rain on Friday and that night as I set up my tent in the mud.....and in shorts all day Saturday as well...but found a couple brothers in shorts amongst the 20-30 weaklings in thermals, heavy jeans and parkas.
Pleasure meeting you BillW...even if the damn campfire smoke follows you everywhere. Thanks for making me feel so welcome....
I got to honestly say that this past weekend was the best offroading experience of my life....I know some places got bigger rocks and steeper hills and I have seen the carnage to prove it......and I know some places have bigger names and high dollar raffles....but this trip with the people involved was the best. The terrain was fun, challenging, pucker factor of 8 a few times, and entertaining......gulches, hills, descents, rocks, gravel, mud, off camber that will put two of your 4 wheels in the air, some others that showed the transfer case to me from rig in front when they went down........
stock rigs to built rigs...there is enough changes in terrain and difficulty to keep most anyone happy...and you just can not beat the company.
I wholey recommend the Lowcountry Land Cruisers attend the next one in full force......the leaves were nearly at peak...highs in 50s.....low 30s at night.....simply amazing.
Pleasure meeting you BillW...even if the damn campfire smoke follows you everywhere. Thanks for making me feel so welcome....
I got to honestly say that this past weekend was the best offroading experience of my life....I know some places got bigger rocks and steeper hills and I have seen the carnage to prove it......and I know some places have bigger names and high dollar raffles....but this trip with the people involved was the best. The terrain was fun, challenging, pucker factor of 8 a few times, and entertaining......gulches, hills, descents, rocks, gravel, mud, off camber that will put two of your 4 wheels in the air, some others that showed the transfer case to me from rig in front when they went down........
stock rigs to built rigs...there is enough changes in terrain and difficulty to keep most anyone happy...and you just can not beat the company.
I wholey recommend the Lowcountry Land Cruisers attend the next one in full force......the leaves were nearly at peak...highs in 50s.....low 30s at night.....simply amazing.
Trails In Francis Marion - 10 minutes past Mt P off 17N
Don't know if any of you have been to this spot, but I used to take my Silverado back there and am going to take the Cruiser there sometime soon. It's in the Francis Marion Forest.
- Take 17N past Mt P.
- About 500' before you get to the Swamp Fox Visitor Center (on the right), there's a dirt road on the
left that goes through the forest and connects a bunch of other roads.
- About a mile or so down that main dirt road, there's a thin pine forest with short pine trees on the right
and a trail leading into it.
Mud holes, few roots, downed trees... think it's a mile or two long. Have to turn around at end to get out, but it's a lot of fun! Few other trails back in there too.
Not sure if you're allowed to go back there, but I never see Rangers driving anywhere. Or anyone else for that matter.
Let me know if anyone is ever interested in going back there!
Don't know if any of you have been to this spot, but I used to take my Silverado back there and am going to take the Cruiser there sometime soon. It's in the Francis Marion Forest.
- Take 17N past Mt P.
- About 500' before you get to the Swamp Fox Visitor Center (on the right), there's a dirt road on the
left that goes through the forest and connects a bunch of other roads.
- About a mile or so down that main dirt road, there's a thin pine forest with short pine trees on the right
and a trail leading into it.
Mud holes, few roots, downed trees... think it's a mile or two long. Have to turn around at end to get out, but it's a lot of fun! Few other trails back in there too.
Not sure if you're allowed to go back there, but I never see Rangers driving anywhere. Or anyone else for that matter.
Let me know if anyone is ever interested in going back there!
Yeh, that would be illegal. Not to mention that is governed by the federal authorities, not state DNR. Those guys can get mean if you get caught. When we were younger we could get out of most anything with the DNR guys, but national forests are different.
Jeremy
Jeremy
Still nothing new here.
Southeast Overland
Get lost! Go explore!
If you are interested in trails on National Forest land check the Motor Vehicle Use Maps - there isn't much available.
Private lands = private parks or special permission.
State lands = nothing that I know of. There aren't any 4x4 trails on SC State Park lands, and DNR/WMA land trails/dirt roads are open as long as the trails/roads are not gated/bermed/blocked and pretty much all that I have ever seen have been.
The low country, at least near the coast, is just too populated to have much if any public wheeling grounds. Move further in land and you get less population but then you are mostly counting on private or Fed lands.
Private lands = private parks or special permission.
State lands = nothing that I know of. There aren't any 4x4 trails on SC State Park lands, and DNR/WMA land trails/dirt roads are open as long as the trails/roads are not gated/bermed/blocked and pretty much all that I have ever seen have been.
The low country, at least near the coast, is just too populated to have much if any public wheeling grounds. Move further in land and you get less population but then you are mostly counting on private or Fed lands.
he has to have a vehicle to wheel as well......rather than lawn ornament as stated in his signature. 
LOL
LOL
with yet a second Boeing plant coming you should be golden next year though...right?
