Any Members in Arkansas?

Saturdays lookin good... @TerraNerva and @TenBeers

 

How do I get one of these free pads?

 

I'm 90% in...will know for sure by Weds...

 

They were giving them out a few years ago. As long as you don’t sign up for the cell service it’s a great deal.....

 

CB connect re-soldered (professionally)....check!
Re-route antenna cable along frame, thru cabin, concealed...check!
Done before dark...check!
Adultish beverages consumed...check!
Ready for the weekend...check!

 

It's looking like we'll be in Ozark NF this weekend. I have a couple of tentative routes planned but I'm curious to know what route you guys are going to take because we're pretty flexible and may ditch one of our routes to ride with you guys depending on where you'll be.

My understanding is that the Long Pool Recreation Area is along the Big Piney. That overlook you guys were talking about is marked on Google Maps as "Proposal Spot" but I've also heard it called "Dover Lights" by a friend of mine who is from that area. It overlooks a bend in the Big Piney Creek just upstream of the Long Pool Recreation Area.

 

We’ve done the overlook/proposal spot as part of the Indian Creek run. I think Pete wants to get down by river below the overlook but I can’t find anything other than the road that goes by heltons farm put in and goes up to overlook at The Mother and close to Treat. On the west side of the piney is a possible run we were looking at too. Not sure we have a firm route yet. Where you thinking? Be cool to see you!

 

Well... I initially planned our route for my dad to come with us. I wanted to show him around some areas I was familiar with so it's all places I (and probably you guys) have been before. That's part of the reason I was thinking of riding with you guys. The route we're looking at starts in Scottsville and runs north through the Illinois Bayou and Victor up to Six Fingers Falls. From there I'm planning to take Hwy 16 over to Haw Creek Falls and Car Wash Falls and work west, then north to Buffalo Lookout Tower. If I can convince my wife to do dispersed camping we may camp there on Fri night pending weather. When we head home we're looking at leaving Byrd's and heading to Spainhour Falls and the Union Schoolhouse, then we may hit Indian Creek Road and that overlook.

I've been to all of these places except Six Fingers Falls and Spainhour Falls. Again, the plan was initially to show my dad a little of what's out there and get him interested but since he's decided to ride his motorcycle that's been nixed. I'm open to suggestions for new places.

 

My USFS map shows a road down and around the Piney bend below the overlook, and we saw a road there last year, so I was hoping to check that out - and Longpool since I haven't been. Other than that, just a lazy meander and some exploring (reconnoitering) is cool. I just don't like dashing from destination to destination. I need to unwind, not rewind....

 

Confucius say: Roads were made for journeys, not destinations. I don't care where we go, just want to get out, get @TenBeers good and stuck and test out his new winch. If the piney bend road doesn't work can always try just west of there on Pilot Rock Rd, Graves Creek Road or Meadows Knob. Lots and lots of spurs in that area to explore.

EDIT: Long Pool will be packed with boaters, no way to camp and its noisy and crowded this time of year with good water, but its a nice campground and fun to check out. Treat area is super popular with SxS, but will be people out and about all over with weather being nice and Campfire at Byrds.

 

@TenBeers you in?

 

here's an overview:

 

Gaia options, feel free to import. Still looking for a route on east side from Long pool, only one I'm finding is past Heltons Farm/ Felkin's Point to Maupin, which is at the start of Indian Creek run to 123. or the Treat Road...so many options....

https://www.gaiagps.com/public/ASgGWifgVllBqvO1Q80SGRBc

https://www.gaiagps.com/public/RBAwcEQdHqWIWxAXmnLvWVGf

 

East Side: Felkins Point and Maupin Flat through Treat to 123

https://www.gaiagps.com/public/iMtYh9dNCKVlVTDXgsu9jBMO

https://www.gaiagps.com/public/YN0GcbmVZPYkZvccmlqA38ba

 

Long Pool to Pilot Rock onto Hess Knob looks cool....

 

Welp... Looks like we're out. We went to Pilot Rock area today and at some point one of the bushings on my steering rack slipped out of the bracket. I'm trying to figure out what road we were on. It was listed as a county road but was closer to a trail. Good little track. At any rate we miraculously found a local mechanic at 4 pm on a Fri afternoon but he made a couple of calls and couldn't find anyone with the bushing in stock. So we came home.



Edit: Water crossings were up about as much as I expected with all of the rain lately.

Edit 2: I'm not 100% sure but from looking at GPS coordinates and Google Maps imagery I think we were on Forest Service Road 1814 south of Pilot Rock and Whitney Cemetery.

 

Damn that sucks. We’re gonna do that same route tomorrow and meander towards Hess Knob. Did you ford piney anywhere ? Sad violin is right...

 

Did Little Piney at Union School. I'm on 32's and it was close to the top of them at the deepest.

 

@Enigma8246 Were you going N or S on Murray Creek Road? Just wondering cuz there used to be a great campsite just E of there on a road that turns south towards the river right before Mt Levi. Used to be able to almost see it down the hill close to Little Piney.

I see the Pilot Mtn - James Ford - 1814...comes back out on Pilot Rock. Was it a pin striper? looks like a possibility for tomorrow

 

I'm about 90% sure that's the road we were on and we were going north. I may have picked up a few pinstripes but they were avoidable if I had been more careful. There were a few dramatic changes in elevation but only one was much of a challenge. We did see a camp site near the south end of 1814. Here's what looks like another spot in the area.

https://goo.gl/maps/YH9Pa2swZKZXjyX76