2017 Appalachian Toyota Round-Up @ Windrock Park, Oliver Springs, TN, Labor Day Weekend

Lol... nice seeing you on the trails man! Fun times.

 

Ya it was good time....i wish I would have got more pics and got out and socialized more at the campground.

 

Yeah, well, with the shitty weather, it was difficult to do.

 

A whole lot of this view.

PS. I need to clean the mirror on my DSLR.

 

Cool shot....next year I may avoid the group rides....at no point did I get a pic of my truck wheeling. Couldnt really. Wish i would have thought about handing my camera to the guys behind me.

 

The four hour group rides were a joke. Next year I will gather a few people and bug out at 10am and maybe be back by dinner

Every group was too big also. Black trails should be limited to 6, and 9nly if they are all experiences And equipped for the trails.

 

100% agreed, both groups i was with was about 20 both times.

 

Here's a few pics, i didn't wanna load them all. I got a lot that have funky marks and blobs from rain drops and water spots. No pics of actual wheeling.


Tried to get some moon shots when it finally cleared up Saturday night. Hard to get a very clear pic due to the slightest vibrations when zoomed in that far.

 

I'm in the same position. I tend to get caught up just living in the moment and forget to take pictures. I did figure out stumble upon how to do live video on IG Saturday and shared what may have been the most boring video on IG. @riz_atx was 50% of my my live audience so I reckon I'll have to apologize to him.

I did the organized rides last year and like most organized rides it seemed that everyone was in a race to get back to camp as soon as possible. That race cost me some damage so I decided to just play it loose with some trusted friends this year and despite the weather, I feel like I had more fun.

You took some picks of our pile at the "circus." Thanks for sharing them. I keep hoping to find more taken by others so I can save them.

 

I was over thier with @ETXTacoma thursday evening for a minute. He pointed you out, you were cooking.

 

Here's some more pics from the event:

 

Those are pretty impressive moon shots! What kind of camera were you using?

 

Thats me with the ambers on in your rearview pic!

And actually I think that's the day you guys broke away from the group, I take it you guys went straight up to overlook. Wish I would have, we got thier a bit later and it was a hurricane up there. You did miss a pretty bad ass stream crossing right after the split though.

 

A point and shoot. Nikon B700.

 

We broke off and did a little more but not much. On Saturday we got on some pretty good trails with a couple water crossings, some steeper terrain, and the overlook.

 

Nice, we ended up at the Radio Tower Sat. Super Greasy out there.

 

Oh yes. We went down one trail where we all basically had to slide down a hill - not the most comfortable experience, especially when the rig in front of you went sideways all the way down.

 

While unpacking my truck today I completely forgot I packed these. Someone was gonna check them out down there. I apologize whoever that was.

 

I may have some footage of a mud slide similar to that

 

I need to pull the ADD off my front diff to find the problem as 4wd wouldn't engage when we were on trail #22. About a quarter of the way up the long hill I finally heard it clunk in and the light went solid. Threw the lockers on and everything settled down and the truck did work. was very sketchy and only got it into 4WD low once I was on top.

Was wanting to do the FJ case swap and add a crawl box this winter but the house remodel is sucking up allot more money than I planned.