What makes a good trail?

[Beerj]

Anyone want to come along for a private viewing?

 

[yankster]

Anyone want to come along for a private viewing?

I plan to hit AOAA and Raush more this year. I figure I'll have to put the fiddies on it at least once.

 

[Beerj]

I plan to hit AOAA and Raush more this year. I figure I'll have to put the fiddies on it at least once.

Hit me up!

 

[Zjman]

Looks like extraction points gonna suck. I don't like wrapping straps around rocks to pull me out but looks like that's their plan

 

[alscott]

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That looks like an all around good time to me but I'm different than most.

Ultimate trail - if you could put rattle rock, atomic ridge, right side of aop, little jager, lions den and mix some go fast in it for a 40-50 mile loop of never ending stupid type obstacles in one long trail, that would be the perfect day. On a side note, windrock offers basically all of that but yall to busy rOcK bOuNcInG

 

[jeeptj99]

That looks like an all around good time to me but I'm different than most.

Ultimate trail - if you could put rattle rock, atomic ridge, right side of aop, little jager, lions den and mix some go fast in it for a 40-50 mile loop of never ending stupid type obstacles in one long trail, that would be the perfect day. On a side note, windrock offers basically all of that but yall to busy rOcK bOuNcInG

Yeah but you get a lot of the gay at windrock.....

 

[jeeptj99]

Maybe Rock Creek? I think it's just a glacial deposit. But at least the rocks aren't jagged enough to be an issue for sidewalls.
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That was it. it was fun in my tj. idk about a buggy. but it was a good time.

 

[Bebop]

Yeah but you get a lot of the gay at windrock.....

Windrock is great. Stop being a hater.

 

[jeeptj99]

Windrock is great. Stop being a hater.

I can't help it. It's what I do. You, @alscott and I should go to the train and the devil's butthole one day...

 

[alscott]

I can't help it. It's what I do. You, @alscott and I should go to the train and the devil's butthole one day...

Devils butthole is the hardest trail in the southeast. Period.

 

[extremetownie]

That looks like an all around good time to me but I'm different than most.

Ultimate trail - if you could put rattle rock, atomic ridge, right side of aop, little jager, lions den and mix some go fast in it for a 40-50 mile loop of never ending stupid type obstacles in one long trail, that would be the perfect day. On a side note, windrock offers basically all of that but yall to busy rOcK bOuNcInG

At Flat nasty there is a trail called all day sucker. It is like what you described above except no Atomic Ridge.

 

[Bebop]

I can't help it. It's what I do. You, @alscott and I should go to the train and the devil's butthole one day...

Is that a covert way to tell us you're coming out ?

 

[jeeptj99]

Is that a covert way to tell us you're coming out ?

only to frenchmen

 

[77GreenMachine]

My favorite trail is Mason Jar at Harlan. It has a gate keeper that keep most people out due to the entrance, it has great obstacles the rest of the trail, with great views and some stretches of just cruising between those. Many of the obstacles are optional, and many you have to do but just pick which line you'll take which changes the difficulty. It's the perfect trail IMO.

I also love Cripple Creek at Good Evening Ranch, but in a different way. Also about every double black trail at Ivy Branch.

But I really think Mason Jar is the gold standard for having everything a good hard trail should have.

I would love to go north and check out some of those places, but when places like Rausch charge per person per day plus a membership, it costs me a fortune for my family of 4 to wheel for a couple days before I ever buy fuel or food!

 

[GLTHFJ60]

First and only time I've been on atomic Ridge was this past november. It hadn't rained for a week, but it was still so slick that the only thing you could do was winch. All of us were on 40s+ and built. A group of hill killer type buggies went up the week after us and did the same thing. That's not fun.

Aoaa sucks in general imo. Trails are too flat. They have some good natural rock sections, but it's just not interesting. Maybe in a decade or so they'll have it figured out.

 

[tcDawg]

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That looks just like a trail at Rausch Creek, forget the name but something like Rock Garden Creek, or Rock Creek. It sucked the big one, it just wasn't compelling or fun at all.

 

[tcDawg]

Glad folks are trying… but you can goto Clayton OK, Green acres or Rugged Mountain have same sizing of rocks.
That being said… bolders that size limit participants.

Tackett Creek at RMR. One of the most fun trails I have ever done.

 

[TMac]

x2 for Tackett - great mix of moderate and hard obstacles without much "filler" in between (think small rocks just large enough to be annoying). Redneck Millionaire at Green Acres was great too. Merlin at Hawk Pride is another one that jumps out at me as just being a fun overall trail

 

[sandw]

Two of my favorites in middle tn are Parsons pass and 1410 at coalmont.

 

[jeeptj99]

Two of my favorites in middle tn are Parsons pass and 1410 at coalmont.

Heard 1410 has gotten kinda rough over the last few years. Is it worth going in the cove to just do those trails?