Potts mountain jeep trail and more

donaldcon

Adventurer
We are leaving this afternoon from Lancaster Ohio and heading to the Potts Mountain Jeep Trail in Covington va. Why Interstate it is around a five-hour drive but we are of course taking the slightly more scenic route. Not really doing any off-roading on the way down but we are stopping and doing a wild cave to work at the organ cave in West Virginia tomorrow morning. From there we are heading to the Pines Campground where we will set up camp for the night. Thursday we will be running the Potts Mountain Jeep Trail and from there we will head north east to Ward's the droop Mountain Battlefield State Park in West Virginia, and then we will wiggle our way around the trails and back roads towards gualey bridge West Virginia. From there we will run over to some more extreme trails about 20 miles south of Charleston off of 119.

As of this morning we still need the button a few things up on all three of the vehicles. We have been working virtually Non-Stop trying to get these hunks of junk ready for an 800 mile trip. None of these vehicles have gotten more than about 60 miles in one day put on them so this is going to be a massive test of the mechanical side of these things.
Other than Tools and spare parts for the of ground tents, bedding, clothing in coolers full of lunch meat sandwiches and bottles of water.

We are going to be roughing it in all sense of the term, and I cannot wait until I clock out at 1:30
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donaldcon

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Still on the trip but few quick updates.

Did our cave tour amd ran all of potts with minimal issues. Made the drive to potts fine. Ran the trail in abkut 5 gours taki g our time and soaking in the view and running the hard parts too.

Ran some mso routes from potts back into covington and are hoteling it tonight becuase it got dark, os raining and we found no decent camp sites.

Leaving to droop mountain area in the am.


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donaldcon

Adventurer
Potts is a cool trail but not something ill probably ever do again now that ive done it not much else 4x4 in the area.

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donaldcon

Adventurer
Not much action today. Mainly a road day. But we did happen across a couple trails that we ran.
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donaldcon

Adventurer
We survived yesterdays extreme trails with minimal issue.

Sammi had some fuel line damage due to a log that jammed between frame and axle and we quickly got it repaired.

I took out a side glass and both tail lights, and busted the yoke on my 9 inch. Luckily a local had a yoke so i am rolling home today with just cosmetic damage.

We are sitting at 597 miles tallied so far

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sethmeister

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Very cool! I love the beater rigs! Did you used to have a Sorento? I thought I remember seeing someone on here with a Sorento and your name rings a bell. These trails aren't too far from me, I'll have to check them out sometime. Thanks for sharing!
 

donaldcon

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Yes i had a sorento. But i blew the engine. I sold it and it has been fixed and is on street onmy duty sadly

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