WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA TACOMAS

Hurricane creek is a little north of Asheville off of I-40 West. It's fairly easy. I plan on heading down to the Asheville area this weekend as well if you want to meet up.

 

Hit me up for future meetups! I'm in Asheville and trying to put my new truck to use.

 

Ignore the name, I was living in Iowa for a job when I joined TW. Living in Fletcher now with a 2015 TRD Sport only started on the mods. TRD Pro grill and selling my ARE Topper (DM if interested) for a bed rail system like Voodoo rack to lower my RTT height to below my Cab height for more clearance and better MPG. Tires are next on the list torn between BFG KO2's and Falken Wildpeak At3w on my stock sport wheels. IF any of ya'll mountain bike lets get together I need some dudes to ride with .

 

Hopefully one day they’ll open some of these roads in Pisgah that’s been closed for the entire 5 years I’ve lived here. Kinda blows my mind how they spent no telling how much money and time to build them just to be rarely used and become over grown. In my head I imagine an off-road paradise behind all the gates but I assume they’re probably fairly boring. Would make for a summers worth of weekend exploring though.

 

There are tons of service roads like that in Nat'l Forests and Parks they are built for fire fighting or says my uncle who use has done pretty much every job in the forest service. Out west a lot of those roads are accessible to the public. Also even though Pisgah is a Nat'l forest a ton of the land is privately owned. One of my scouts has family land in Pisgah to the tune of 500 acres and the roads on his property are gated like that.

 

Last time I wheeled, It was up Turkey Creek Gap Rd through the N Mills River Rec area and back to 276 which is right up into Pisgah NF from Brevard. It will be a little crowded this weekend. Nice views. TOTALLY beginner friendly. Not even 4wd required unless it gets wet. An option for you, Anyway.

Good luck and have fun!

 

Anyone have any photos of the flood damage or landslides? crazy our area has received 20" of rain in the past 15 days.

 

I got to Linville Gorge Thursday, just as they finished grading the roads.
I think they need to do it again, so the regular cars can get in.
I had no trouble.

 

You could probably get some good pictures and video from the local news, WLOS TV.

 

So, what @DC-USAF said, but also, These are from our back yard, right behind the asphalt drive... DISCLAIMER: This is really deep, but I realize how insignificant it is compared to other damage on the area. Lord help those loosing property, or worse, family and friends in this excessive weather!

This erosion has been eating away with each heavy rain... we only noticed it when our dog fell in up to his belly, with the ivy growing over, and hiding the cut in the earthen slope. When i went to clean the ivy out with the weed wacker, i fell in upnto my crotch... then i knew it was worse than it appears and was really careful cutting the ivy away from the top edges of the cut.

I’d estimate it’s about 5’ 8” down to the middle and aboit 7’ across, and runs further than i was able to trim... That is a full size True Temper wood handle pitch fork in the cut, for scale.



IN OTHER NEWS, I got my latest MOD delivered yesterday!!!

 

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eMAnymgc_xE Aerial drone footage of Biltmore Village near downtown Asheville

That is crazy, It was good to see that big orange ball in the sky this morning lets hope it stays and starts drying everything out soon!

 

Hey Guys,
I ran across a good deal on a Leer topper in Winston-Salem.

https://winstonsalem.craigslist.org/pts/d/camper-shell-toyota-tacoma/6597790171.html

 

I am about 5-6 miles from Hurricane Creek trail here in Haywood county.

I can get to the trail head in less than 10 minutes from the house.

 

Anyone been around Pinnacle mountain lately? Seems to be public with some decent looking technical rocky stuff to climb.

 

Drove down to Looking Glass Falls from the parkway on Thursday. With all the rain we just had there is a whole lot more water coming over the falls than there usually is.

The first video is what the falls normally look like.



This is what the falls look like after all the rain. The last video is at the very bottom and I was getting soaked from all the spray.

 

Great trout fishing in that area.

 

I was at Linville Gorge. The road is 'Best with 4WD' now.

 

It's been a couple years since I fished looking glass falls but the fishing was great when I did. I don't know if I'll be able to walk up and down those stairs to fish it again since I've had both knees replaced and have back issues.

 

It's been a wile for me too! You two down for a PNF fly fishing meetup?