Saturday we had two groups head out on the trails. A Black/Red group consisting of Kevin, Dan, and Matt, and a Green/Blue group that I led. We left out of Camp 2 after a drivers meeting just after 9 am. After heading up Cove Road to the end we entered the 101 Area from the back side. There was a tree blocking the trail that we winched out of the way. A short time was spent playing around the 101 Area and we then headed up Timber Trail to Mesh Mash. Half way down Mesh Mash we turned onto Lower Pucker. At the creek crossing the Rover tried to go over too large a rock, but after a little back up everyone made it past and we headed on towards Log Bridge. Log Bridge led us to an intersection where we turned and went down K2. A little sliding and a few rocks rolling down the hill all got down safely. From there we headed down Trickle and at the North end we turned to the North Upper Road Access trail. Once at the top we turned down hill again on Little Rocky Run which led us to Mine Spring Road (aka middle road) where we drove to the base of Winch Only and stopped for lunch. After lunch we headed up Winch Only to Mountain Trail (aka upper road) and back down Cobra to Mine Spring Road again. Then we went up Wahoo! and got back on Mine Spring Road to get to the U Turns. Up U Turn Easy, across Mountain Trail and back down U Turn Hard which put us back on Mine Spring Road again. We followed Mine Spring Road all the way to Berkley Springs and took that up to Pinnacle Ridge Trail. We headed up to and hiked to the Pinnacle Ridge overlook. After a short time we headed back down Pinnacle Ridge Trail and took Canyon back down to the access roads to Camp 2 just after 5 pm. We traveled on 21 trails and 13 miles in eight hours with 6 rigs. A damaged lens and an over heated trans(due to trying to climb in 4hi) and a couple tugs off of logs were all that slowed us down.
Bryan Folts 99 Cherokee 33's, locked - passenger/guest- Jim Atwell
Sean Valentine 09 JKU stock with MT's
Roscoe Primrose the little TJ that could 32's open
Charles Gaplin and the girls 94 D90 33's locked
Terry and Sally Dunlap 2010 JK stock with MT's
Virgil and Bradley Moore 98 Cherokee 35's locked
Sunday had Preston join the Black/Red group. Virgil, Roscoe, and myself headed out and hit Cobra then followed Mountain Trail to ET where we saw the other group coming up ET. We stopped while they fixed a broken power steering line and Kevin showed his two tail lamps that got ripped off lower on ET. Our small group of 3 headed on to Death Valley and Hard Rock Crawlers trails. We got a ways down the trail when Virgil got pinned against a tree and a rock. After two snatch blocks running the winch cable to his rear bumper we got him pulled out, but not before his tail lamp lens got pulled off. We hiked a little down the trail to see what was coming up and saw that it lead to another rock fall that we didn't want to challenge on Sunday afternoon. So, we turned around and headed back to camp via U Turn Easy.
It was a great weekend for wheeling at The Cove! Beautiful weather. I gave Willis and Daniel copies of the trail maps I've made and talked to them about working on the 101 area. I would like to thank Kevin Patterson and Jim Atwell for helping with the breakfast Saturday morning. Also thanks to all who could make it out for this event.
Happy Motoring,
Bryan Folts
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