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Old Jul 22, 2012 | 09:27 PM
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Some north side kids at my school, they took there yoga back there and said they spun it all up and tried to dig it deeper, then the dude named Dustin secrist took his bronco on 44's back there and said he spun it all up dumping it and diggin it deeper. This was like maybe 4 to 6 month ago...said that sense they been digging it up, ain't no one on anything smaller then 33's made it threw the high street holes
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Old Jul 22, 2012 | 09:47 PM
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Originally Posted by dylanXJ99
Some north side kids at my school, they took there yoga back there and said they spun it all up and tried to dig it deeper, then the dude named Dustin secrist took his bronco on 44's back there and said he spun it all up dumping it and diggin it deeper. This was like maybe 4 to 6 month ago...said that sense they been digging it up, ain't no one on anything smaller then 33's made it threw the high street holes
I know the secrists.I've had more then one stock xj through there,so i'm not sure what they're talking about unless i'm thinking of the wrong ones.If i'm thinking of the right ones,they're pretty much at the bottem of a neighborhood/one houses yard and we have seen cops get called back there before.
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Old Jul 22, 2012 | 09:48 PM
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I've watched a full size chevy on 44's get stuck in the pond.
Are we talking about Lignite/Fenwick mines? If so, stay the hell outa there as well. They keep closing the trails due to trail abuse. If people keeop doing what they do, there will not be any trails left. Five years ago we had 10 good trails around here now we have one.
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Old Jul 22, 2012 | 09:53 PM
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Originally Posted by xjtrailrider
Are we talking about Lignite/Fenwick mines? If so, stay the hell outa there as well. They keep closing the trails due to trail abuse. If people keeop doing what they do, there will not be any trails left. Five years ago we had 10 good trails around here now we have one.
Not sure, i've always heard these called 604.They're just huge mudholes with nasty red mud up behind the truckstop in troutville.Up a gravel road beside the truckwash.I've been once,and won't go again.It's right next to a powerline also.


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Are you talking about fenwicks mine up in craig country with the pond at the top? I haven't heard of anyone going up there for years.

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Old Jul 22, 2012 | 10:10 PM
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Originally Posted by zjjerk
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Are you talking about fenwicks mine up in craig country with the pond at the top? I haven't heard of anyone going up there for years.
Yep, I forget the route numbers but I know its 6 something, maybe 615? Our club made the last legal run through there before they closed it for good.

I also lead a ride through Bobcat(Blacksburg/Brushy Mountain) the day before it was closed for good

I got to wheel at Mt City TN/Callalantee just before it closed.

I've seen way too many trails closed lately due to stupidity of others or the land was sold.
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Old Jul 22, 2012 | 10:12 PM
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Lol me and zjjerk was just talking about brushy, earlier in a message, now it's just small, gated off, small mud hole and puddles..
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Old Jul 22, 2012 | 10:13 PM
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Originally Posted by xjtrailrider
Yep, I forget the route numbers but I know its 6 something, maybe 615? Our club made the last legal run through there before they closed it for good.

I also lead a ride through Bobcat(Blacksburg/Brushy Mountain) the day before it was closed for good

I got to wheel at Mt City TN/Callalantee just before it closed.

I've seen way too many trails closed lately due to stupidity of others or the land was sold.
Lignite was a good trail,why exactly did they close it?I've heard theres now a campground there or something, and yeah 615 sounds right.Also,why did bobcat get closed?I know you can ride to the gate on brushy mtn,and the last time i was up there it looked like someones made a bypass by the gate.
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Old Jul 22, 2012 | 10:53 PM
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Originally Posted by zjjerk
Lignite was a good trail,why exactly did they close it?I've heard theres now a campground there or something, and yeah 615 sounds right.Also,why did bobcat get closed?I know you can ride to the gate on brushy mtn,and the last time i was up there it looked like someones made a bypass by the gate.
People were tearing up lignite so they closed it

The lower section of Bobcat, Coal hill, the Gauntlet etc were on private property, when the property sold the new owner shut it down.

Bobcat was a fun easy trail.

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Old Jul 22, 2012 | 10:56 PM
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I have pics of Lignite but they are on my external, i need to upload them.
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Old Jul 22, 2012 | 11:09 PM
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Mt City/Callalantee

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I followed this tube buggy through "Armor All" until my CPS gave out while I was high centered on a log in the pouring rain!
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Old Jul 23, 2012 | 05:20 AM
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I'm headed to Black Mountain ORV in Harlan Kentucky this weekend(fri-mon) if anyone has an extremely flexible schedule and discretionary income, I'd love to have you come along. It is a 4:30 drive from Roanoke. 6800 acres of trails and only $25 for a month long pass to use them. Camping and cabins are available.
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Old Jul 23, 2012 | 01:50 PM
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Anyone heard of or been to crowells gap in boones mill?Apparently its legal and decently fun.It starts on 220 and runs you to boones mill rd in franklin county.
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Lol crowells gap...very famillar with it..hahah it's literally just a very steep gravel/ dirt road, and by step I mean if you hit your breaks to hard going down, prepare to start sliding and possiblely wrecking..it's steep, but coming back up you can make it in 2wd, you just have to get a food run at it and have some momentum...I made it in 2wd twice, rest the time I went up in tin 4hi and crawled slowly..it's takes like all of 5 minutes to actually do the fun part And there's no legal trails off of it...it's just an old farm road taks you from 220 back to windy gap man.lbeen up and down it a couple times, even flexed up on the embankment.

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Old Jul 23, 2012 | 04:19 PM
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Originally Posted by dylanXJ99
Lol crowells gap...very famillar with it..hahah it's literally just a very steep gravel/ dirt road, and by step I mean if you hit your breaks to hard going down, prepare to start sliding and possiblely wrecking..it's steep, but coming back up you can make it in 2wd, you just have to get a food run at it and have some momentum...I made it in 2wd twice, rest the time I went up in tin 4hi and crawled slowly..it's takes like all of 5 minutes to actually do the fun part And there's no legal trails off of it...it's just an old farm road taks you from 220 back to windy gap man.lbeen up and down it a couple times, even flexed up on the embankment.
Damn,another dissapointment.
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Old Jul 23, 2012 | 04:35 PM
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It's really is. This kid I go to school with was like, lets go to crowells gap , I was like what the crap is that. He says it's this steep gravel and dirty hill , it's so steep if you slide, your dead, which, it's is pretty stinking steep, buts it's like nothing, and takes all too short. Like i said, all of 5 minutes to do the actual fun stuff
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