Windrock Tennessee

[Nuzzy]

Just spent a few days down at Windrock near Oliver Springs, TN to check out the Southeastern wheelin scene and had an absolute BLAST!! :011: Unfortunately I couldn't pull together the funds to finish the rig and pay for fuel going down this time around, so I spent one last trip riding bitch. :booo:

Anyways, the trip was planned by my friends Brian and Daryl who run JCR Offroad in Kalamazoo. We ended up with 6 rigs down there including Brian's freshly buggyized FJ40 on it's shakedown run. I can't wait to go back with my rig


Getting ready to roll out of the house we rented about 3 miles from the park

It rained most of the day Friday so everyone was pretty much soaked

Brian's newly buggied FJ40

Jer's LS1 powered Mog axled rear steer Campbell Ent buggy

Stan's badass YJ

Daryl driving the rental since it's owner Kirby got Pneumonia on the way down and couldn't wheel all weekend. He beat on like a stepchild, but alls good cause he built the thing anyways. Cromo 60s, full hydro, full traction, 5:38s and 4 speed Atlas, blah blah blah

 

[zukkev]

Looks like alot of fun was had!! Was that you dressed like a mud priest in the 2nd pic?:redneck:

 

[Nuzzy]

Jer loves the skinny

The rock on the driverside started moving pinning Daryl against an under cut rock on the other side.

It's ok, it's a rental :redneck:

Rocks were so slick, you could fall over standing! This was an unmaintained river bed trail.

Unfortunately, Brian found out that when his rig's front driveshaft climbs on a rock, it moves the motor enough for the fan to get into the rad. This marked the start of a VERY long recovery...

Daryl working on pinching off the ribs. Unfortunately, it still wouldn't hold water so Brian was left without cooling for the rest of the day.

Daryl was able to pull him back down to a road which was awesome, until we realized there was a locked gate and cattle. Well about the time this pic was taken of the boys looking at the map to figure the next plan, a farmer started firing warning shots into the air because apparently we were too close for comfort :redneck:

Obviously by this point it was dark.

Problem was, we needed to get to the other side of the mountain, which meant that we needed to tow Brian up all 1000 vertical feet in the wet clay to get back down the other side Let me say, I have NEVER seen mud so bad. This clay turns into ball bearing like slickness that couldn't even be walked up! At one point, Brian tried driving up a hill and baked his motor up past 280*. Decided we couldn't risk that anymore, so for the next hill we daisy chained Jer's rig to Stan's to Daryl's to Brians and did an all out 3rd gear full throttle assault to get Brian up.

That was only the start. This became a 5 hour winch fest in non walkable clay where Daryl had to winch the rental up a 1500 or so foot long section of trail at about 80-90 feet per pull while still attached to Brian's rig since there was no way to winch it separately.

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This would be the aftermath once back

 

[YJMatt]

Those East coast guys know how to get it done. looks like good times for sure:awesomework:

 

[Nuzzy]

So Sat morning, Brian headed into town to get a new rad and electric fan while Jer fixed some burned through wires and a CPS sensor. Before we headed out, Killer B gave a nice Hula girl impression since Brian's dash board hula girl had broken in half the day before (which we were convinced gave the bad luck).

This day we headed straight to Rattle Rock which apparently is one of the best boulder crawls in the states.

Doc Brad starting up

Of course images do no justice. But this whole section is steep and every single rock seems to be at the perfect spot to catch diffs and bellies.

Doc Brad was the first to break, taking out his passenger front ujoint and twisting his stub shaft. After some winching to jack up his pass side from where it was wedged, the fix was on.

Daryl and Killer B are a couple good guys to have around...

 

[GRNTACO]

I like the LC!

Badass pics, looks like someone was using a good camera.

 

[Nuzzy]

Well, shortly after getting Doc Brad back underway, Stan hopped a little too hard and blew up his front 44 alloy stub shaft which marked the end of the day for him.

While winching Stan, someone decided to throw wood at Brain :haha:

This section of trail is no joke. No one could crawl it. Full throttle assault was about the only option. No pics of Brian and Jer making though :booo:

Daryl hit on rock with the diff so hard it sparked and caught some leaves on fire :haha: But he treated it like his bitch and flew through the top bouncing off the rev limiter.

Chris is still new to wheeling, but does really well listening.

Got dark again...

The sky almost looks fake

Well, Brian's ghosts came back. After overheating the engine the day before, it had been running worse and worse all day. Finally it gave out and would start anymore. Warped head, rod knock, head gasket, and it would no longer start. This was NOT any easy trail for recovery...

But we eventually got him back on flat land. Luckily by then he was able to restart, although his propane injected 22r sounded beyond pissed. He was able to drive off the trail, but it finally blew apart on the road back to the house. Oh well, he has another one waiting to go in back at the shop.


All in all, the trip was fully badass Good people, good times, great wheelin. I can't wait to go back with my own rig and get naughty :011:

 

[Nuzzy]

Looks like alot of fun was had!! Was that you dressed like a mud priest in the 2nd pic?:redneck:

Nope, that would be Don :redneck:

 

[Nuzzy]

I like the LC!

Badass pics, looks like someone was using a good camera.

When the camera was asked about on my Great Lakes board... The camera equipment was Chris's (who doesn't post), but nixxer was the one taking most of the pics. By trips end, there were over 1700 pics totalling 12-13 gigs :haha:

I believe most of those pictures have a fish-eye lense. Our photographer has ALOT of camera equipment (about $5k worth). So we get very good pictures! The hard part is cutting them down to about 150-200.

Primarily the pictures were taken with a Canon EF 16-35mm f/2.8L II USM (wideangle), some of them were taken with a Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM (telephoto), not sure of the camera it was a step up of the Canon 40D a few years ago.

 

[Jeepless]

That makes me horney....

And by the looks, I am a little jeoulous.

 

[GRNTACO]

When the camera was asked about on my Great Lakes board... The camera equipment was Chris's (who doesn't post), but nixxer was the one taking most of the pics. By trips end, there were over 1700 pics totalling 12-13 gigs :haha:

DAYUM!! Someone was shutter happy.

 

[Boonie Buster]

...............WOW.................... awesome, just awesome!!! That to me is the prime example of a great wheeling trip, good trails, GOOD COMPANY, and good times!!!:awesomework: :awesomework: :awesomework:

 

[Money Mark]

Wheeling is

:awesomework:

 

[Symon623]

Looks like a blast Nuzzy, quite the oposite in weather and traction of what you saw here huh?

 

[Nuzzy]

Looks like a blast Nuzzy, quite the oposite in weather and traction of what you saw here huh?

That would be an understatement... :haha:


Although the boulder section on Rattle Rock could easily have been in WA. Good sized rocks with just enough dirt to dig yourself in. Only thing missing was tight trees and root balls. I wish we could've got more pics of the upper part but it was too dark. There were some sick sized boulders up there (similar to OM pics I've seen) Jer was giving it hell in his buggy to get through without being able to see much in front of him.

 

[boxboy]

Good times cool trail!


thanks for sharing! :beer:

 

[heep70]

Badass Nuzzy, get your shitpile fixed and get some wheelin done? :awesomework:

 

[zukkev]

Excellent Pics!! Thanks for sharin'!!!

 

[Nuzzy]

Badass Nuzzy, get your shitpile fixed and get some wheelin done? :awesomework:

No ****. :booo:

The shift fork is my last major obstacle.

 

[dirtygoat]

Epic Trip...

Totally ****ing Epic...


Great looking country/trails, Incredible pics and not to shabby Narration...:redneck:

Makes me want to move to the East...