Brown Mountain OHV Park NC

[carljwnc]

Looking for some good rock crawling/technical terrain?...Forget it. :tongueout: Wanna' easy outing where you can be comfortable going by yourself and entertain two 9 year old boys in your stock rig? Then you've found the right place. :thumbup:

Brown Mountain OHV Park (http://www.cs.unca.edu/nfsnc/recreation/brown_mountain_orv.pdf) will do the trick. Between Morganton and Lenoir NC just off of Hwy. 181, nice place to spend a day in the woods. Trail 1 and Trail 8 are open to 4WD vehicles, Tr. 1 is 5.5mi and Tr. 8 is .6mi. Trail 8 is a bit more challenging and without another vehicle along I stayed off of it this time, next time I go though I think I will find that it's not enough to worry about, but for this trip with the young'uns and no recovery vehicle along, I decided to play it safe (and got stuck anyway :roll:).

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Hayden (my boy on the left) and his best buddy Conrad, ready to roll.

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Small milestone on the way. (barely broken in, right?)

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Parking lot rescue.

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Stuffin' it on a trail break with a little attitude.

[carljwnc]

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Nice photo op rock, Conrad got up there on his own, but I had to get him down. ;)

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About as tough as it gets.

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There are a couple of small shallow mud holes to play in just off to my right, I stayed out since last time cost me 4hrs. of cleaning.

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Just before the top.

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Gettin' there.

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Backed over a stump :headscratch:, get out and look before you back up. :shake:
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I now have a new muffler.

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Rock at the top. :)

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Comin' down the stairs.

Fun day!!! Boys had a blast, and this is home to the infamous Brown Mountain Lights (http://www.brownmountainlights.com/[/url), might have to camp next time. :)

[Good Times]

that muffler pic just adds character :)

thanks for sharing!

[4x4mike]

Cool looks like fun. I think my next few years will be similar wheeling because of the little one.

[slosurfer]

Cool pics and looks like the kids had fun, that's what it's all about! :thumbup: The stump pic is priceless, bummer it took out the muffler though.

[4x4mike]

I've pulled a similar move and messed up an exhaust system as well. It was on my Chevy and a rock instead of a stump. We ended up cutting the exhaust off (from just behind the cat all the way back) and threw it in the back. Let's just say I was cracking up the whole 2.5 hour freeway drive home.

[carljwnc]

that muffler pic just adds character :)

thanks for sharing!


It did add character, even more when I wired it up with coat hanger 'just in case'. :) But, it also lost about 2mpg right off the bat and I was also getting a lot of valve noise.

Fortunately, unlike 4x4mike, it was still intact enough not to make any excessive exhaust noise. I'll bet that was a loud ride home. ;)

But, yeah, it was a GREAT day and the boys loved it so it was all worth while.

[troyboy162]

that looks like fun! you can tell by the pics that the boys are having a blast. looks like you'll just hafta take 'em wheeling every weekend from here on out :)

[carljwnc]

that looks like fun! you can tell by the pics that the boys are having a blast. looks like you'll just hafta take 'em wheeling every weekend from here on out :)


Wish I could take 'em every weekend. :) But, I'm unemployed right now. :( I DO try to stick to my owners manual recommendation of "running the vehicle in 4wd at least 10mi. every month". Honey, I'm not going wheelin', I'm performing required maintenance. :thumbup: