Ocala camping and wheeling trip (LOTS of pictures)

Finally made it out to ocala two weekends ago for a little camping an a full day of wheeling. myself and 2 of my friends camped friday and saturday nights. great weather, and you can camp wherever you want. saturday morning, we met up with Alex, (sparklegrease) at the trail head and headed out for a full day of trails. had a great time, and can't wait to go back!


my buddy went crazy and took about 400 pictures, but there was a lit of duplicates....these were the best. Enjoy


this first group is packing up, getting there, and campint the first night

 

couple more of camping and then the wheeling began

 

only you can prevent forest fires.

Looks like you guys had fun. The leaves are changing up here so I will be doing some camping in North GA in the next few weeks.

 

more wheeling!

 

final wheeling pictures and the start to camping the second night

 

just a couple more of the second night of camping.....every trip must come to an end...fortunately ours ended with $12 a piece a taco bell

 

Looks like a lot of fun! How many times did the gold Yota get stuck?

 

only got a couple videos, but they will be up shortly. alex also took some pictures that i'm sure she'll get up

 

i believe only 4 time. 3 required the tow strap, and the other time we were able to push her out. we were all very pleased with how well it performed. it's low weight allowed it to float over most stuff. the sand was really soft too. i stepped out once to get the strap ready and sank in half way up my shin

 

Videos!
ones taken by Alex are HD. must have had the wrong setting on my friends camera though.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbC719h4RiI

Courtosy of Alex vvvv
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1grxdSKgBnI

also made possible by Alex vvvv
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWGymEhWg4s

though it made for a good laugh afterwards, you will hear a luod banging sound in this video....as is obvious judging on my friend's commentary, we thought the truck was about to explode....it was perfectly fine, the sound was just an ammo can bouncing around in the bed
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQv8FDPUdyo

 

Nice, looks like everybody had a good time!

 

hahaha, that's good david.

Colton, we all had a very good time. trails down here sure are different from the stuff we have back in VA.

 

looks like a good time! great pics.....
i hope yall can make the citrus meet in jan!
i was up there last weekend and the washouts are getting pretty gnarly again so we sould have some good terrain to test ourselves!

 

already told the boss i won't be in that weekend

 

FYI for your next camping trip...get one of these clip on LED cap lights


Super cheap and worth every penny. Keeps you from having to carry a flashlight around.

 

looks awesome, me and hofs05 already got our hopes up to wheel in november so maybe we'll go here since citrus is pushed back.

 

yeah, those led things would have come in handy. the fire was more than enough light most of the time, but when we started eating, we forgot about the fire and there went out light.

mgrande: it's a great place to wheel. nothing technical though. if you want technical, hard rock off road park is only about a half hour away i believe.
ocala is mostly a network of dirt roads (some maintained, some pretty rough). every once then, scattered about are those huge sand pits where traction is non-existant....but very fun. you can branch off the main trails though for some skinnier stuff. there are some pictures of a couple we went down. we actually took one in order to get to the lake.

 

Going to be in OCALA sometime in the first week in Nov. Looks like a good time.

 

If you dont mind my asking, where did you camp at and how much did it cost? Me and some buddies want to go camping in a couple weeks and I was thinking about going to ONF... Looks like a hell of atime.

Those pics make me want to go beat on me Prerunner some.