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Good trails in the Raleigh, NC area?

Any of y'all have some pointers to some good trails in the Raleigh, NC
area? I know a few places to go but I'm always looking for more.
Thanks...

--
Travis
'63 VW Camo Baja...
http://bugadventures.dyndns.org
Forgive your enemies. It messes with their heads.
It doesn't take a very big person to carry a grudge.
:wq!

Re: Good trails in the Raleigh, NC area?

What trails do you know of?

"travis" <travist34removethis@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:c734mvovsp5uart55uoud0jugondc2kdtj@4ax.com...
> Any of y'all have some pointers to some good trails in the Raleigh, NC
> area? I know a few places to go but I'm always looking for more.
> Thanks...
>
>
>
> --
> Travis
> '63 VW Camo Baja...
> http://bugadventures.dyndns.org
> Forgive your enemies. It messes with their heads.
> It doesn't take a very big person to carry a grudge.
> :wq!

Re: Good trails in the Raleigh, NC area?

"travis" <travist34removethis@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:c734mvovsp5uart55uoud0jugondc2kdtj@4ax.com...
> Any of y'all have some pointers to some good trails in the Raleigh, NC
> area? I know a few places to go but I'm always looking for more.

hi travis,
im down in fayetteville and havent found much of anything locally other than
the hmmwv proving grounds on ft. bragg (havent been since before 9/11
though). are you familiar with uwharrie?
http://7slotgrille.com/trailheads/uwharrie.html its no tellico, but its
certainly better than anything else around here.

--
Nathan W. Collier
http://7SlotGrille.com

Re: Good trails in the Raleigh, NC area?

On Fri, 12 Sep 2003 21:17:33 GMT, "Nathan W. Collier"
<JeepTalk@7SlotGrille.com> left Mt Vesuvius in a state of jealous awe
as he began spewing from the mouth thusly:

>"travis" <travist34removethis@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>news:c734mvovsp5uart55uoud0jugondc2kdtj@4ax.com.. .
>> Any of y'all have some pointers to some good trails in the Raleigh, NC
>> area? I know a few places to go but I'm always looking for more.
>
>hi travis,
>im down in fayetteville and havent found much of anything locally other than
>the hmmwv proving grounds on ft. bragg (havent been since before 9/11
>though). are you familiar with uwharrie?
>http://7slotgrille.com/trailheads/uwharrie.html its no tellico, but its
>certainly better than anything else around here.

Hey Nathan. I grew up in Fayetteville. Went to Westover High School
and graduated in '86. I messed around some on my bicycle *blush* on
some of the tank trails in the area off of Yadkin Road when I was a
kid, but never really did any offroading while I was there. I've
heard of Uwharrie and looked at their website some and would like to
get out there sometime but I was hoping to find something a little
more local for now. I'm hoping to be in the position financially
before too many more months go by to buy a Jeep. For now I'm having a
blast with my VW baja, but every time I get stuck I can't help
thinking "If only I had a Jeep..." Plenty of pictures on my website
(see signature) of my bug being stuck. Just ignore the background
pictures on one of the "adventures" where it shows a Jeep with an X
through it. ;-) One of these days... One of these days... Thanks
for the response.

--
Travis
'63 VW Camo Baja...
http://bugadventures.dyndns.org
Forgive your enemies. It messes with their heads.
It doesn't take a very big person to carry a grudge.
:wq!

Re: Good trails in the Raleigh, NC area?

On Fri, 12 Sep 2003 21:26:12 GMT, "Nathan W. Collier"
<JeepTalk@7SlotGrille.com> left Mt Vesuvius in a state of jealous awe
as he began spewing from the mouth thusly:

>"travis" <travist34removethis@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>news:f1e4mvgunagub3b91q743toh8pa6q7oo5j@4ax.com.. .
>> Hey Nathan. I grew up in Fayetteville.
>
>im sorry. ;-)
>
>> Went to Westover High School
>> and graduated in '86.
>
>cool! cape fear, '87.
>
>> I've
>> heard of Uwharrie and looked at their website some and would like to
>> get out there sometime but I was hoping to find something a little
>> more local for now.
>
>thats cool. its just over an hour away for you.
>
>> I'm hoping to be in the position financially
>> before too many more months go by to buy a Jeep.
>
>hell yeah!
>
>> every time I get stuck I can't help
>> thinking "If only I had a Jeep..."
>
>i understand that! i was without jeep for awhile last year and that ran
>through my head a time or two. what kind of jeep are you looking for?

I'm not too picky, but want something a little older. I'll make it
into what I want it to be once I get my greasy fingers on it. CJ-5,
CJ-7, or a Scrambler, mid 70's or so. I'd like a V8 in it. A friend
of mine years ago in college had an older Jeep with a 304 I believe it
was, and a 3-speed manual tranny. Oh yeah, I also want a manual
tranny. I'll learn a lot more about what would be a good choice when
I get closer to being able to actually buy one. I've been looking at
some on ebay and it looks like I could get something pretty capable
for $5000-$6000 or so. I don't care about looks, just function.
Right now it's "my wife's turn" so we're gonna dump some $$$ into a
deck enclosure. Then it's "my turn" and for "my turn" I wanna get rid
of my truck and get a Jeep. Wish me luck. :-)

--
Travis
'63 VW Camo Baja...
http://bugadventures.dyndns.org
Forgive your enemies. It messes with their heads.
It doesn't take a very big person to carry a grudge.
:wq!

Re: Good trails in the Raleigh, NC area?

Cool Bug, Travis!

I had a 69, 1500 with the 3 speed electric/hydraulic clutch, touch the
shifter and it was a spring loaded switch to put it in neutral with a
hydraulic clutch.

I went Mallory dual point distributor and coil and it just rocked!

Had G78 15's on it and if the front axle would clear, the rest was free
and clean.

Rev it at a stop and let the hand off the shifter knob and the sucker
would just smoke the back tires. Had to let off the gas to go
anywhere...

It would hit 70 mph in second with the tires even putting the spedo off
high. Man I won sooo many beer in the bar by betting people on that...
I took a couple on a run and they came back and said pay up folks!, it
would hit 72 to 75 depending on the day....

It was insane off road! Man the places I got into and better out of....

I have been bumper hooked coming down and going up steep inclines.
Nothing like coming down a mean one and have the bumper stop you cold at
the bottom....

I got stuck once 2 miles off shore on the Nova Scotia's Minas Basin's 3
mile wide at low tide mud flats once... (Highest tides in the world,
30' to 40' average between low and high)

We took out the stereo and 'hoped' VW's floated like the adds said and
hiked it to shore where we saw a couple guys shoveling gravel into a
trailer behind their 'tractor'. Yes! We figure!

Nope, the two old duffers, one was 86, said, 'what? that little white
dot way out there is your VW, LOL!, not a hope are we bringing the
tractor out there, but you can borrow our shovels'...

So they hiked back out with us just to watch us stupid kids and we dug a
circle trench around the VW with a drain trench and the mud went solid
and out I drove.

The old duffer said, 'well I am 86 and I have never seen anything like
that!'..

Made his day! And mine, the water was only 20 feet away and coming in
at 5' per wave....

VW Bugs got me into off roading with a 'capable' vehicle back when I was
18. I drove Austin Minis otherwise. Did have a skid plate made for one
of them, I off roaded those little suckers too. They ride the ridges
and can zig zag the rocks. Always have friends with me but two of us
can swing the rear end around in the snow easy. Man the looks I have
gotten coming burning out of a trail that had a recent ice storm on top
of snow by the 4x4 guys sitting talking about if they should try it or
not... LOL!

I now have the ultimate off road vehicle for me, an 86 CJ7 with a 3"
lift, fiberglass body I put on (no more rust!) and BFG33x9.5 muds!

Took her out on the Minas basin mud flats too! On a vacation trip, we
just 'had' to run her out to low tide with my buddy that was there for
the VW stuck and have a beer and smoke break as the water is coming in
to cover the tires.

Parked at the waters edge and only had half a beer gone before the waves
were hitting the floor....

Almost got cut off too coming back in....

Mike
86/00 CJ7 Laredo, 33x9.5 BFG Muds, 'glass nose to tail in '00
88 Cherokee 235 BFG AT's

travis wrote:
>
> On Fri, 12 Sep 2003 21:17:33 GMT, "Nathan W. Collier"
> <JeepTalk@7SlotGrille.com> left Mt Vesuvius in a state of jealous awe
> as he began spewing from the mouth thusly:
>
> >"travis" <travist34removethis@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> >news:c734mvovsp5uart55uoud0jugondc2kdtj@4ax.com.. .
> >> Any of y'all have some pointers to some good trails in the Raleigh, NC
> >> area? I know a few places to go but I'm always looking for more.
> >
> >hi travis,
> >im down in fayetteville and havent found much of anything locally other than
> >the hmmwv proving grounds on ft. bragg (havent been since before 9/11
> >though). are you familiar with uwharrie?
> >http://7slotgrille.com/trailheads/uwharrie.html its no tellico, but its
> >certainly better than anything else around here.
>
> Hey Nathan. I grew up in Fayetteville. Went to Westover High School
> and graduated in '86. I messed around some on my bicycle *blush* on
> some of the tank trails in the area off of Yadkin Road when I was a
> kid, but never really did any offroading while I was there. I've
> heard of Uwharrie and looked at their website some and would like to
> get out there sometime but I was hoping to find something a little
> more local for now. I'm hoping to be in the position financially
> before too many more months go by to buy a Jeep. For now I'm having a
> blast with my VW baja, but every time I get stuck I can't help
> thinking "If only I had a Jeep..." Plenty of pictures on my website
> (see signature) of my bug being stuck. Just ignore the background
> pictures on one of the "adventures" where it shows a Jeep with an X
> through it. ;-) One of these days... One of these days... Thanks
> for the response.
>
> --
> Travis
> '63 VW Camo Baja...
> http://bugadventures.dyndns.org
> Forgive your enemies. It messes with their heads.
> It doesn't take a very big person to carry a grudge.
> :wq!