Finally got to take this thing to AOP. Beautiful park. Gets pretty sloppy in the rainy season, but definately a park i'll be going back to. Rig performed really well til it spit the caps out the double cardan.
Awesome, AOP is the hardest wheeling I have ever done. Steep and no traction anywhere, it is a special kind of crazy.
Awesome, AOP is the hardest wheeling I have ever done. Steep and no traction anywhere, it is a special kind of crazy.
Geesh AOP is still just 20 minutes from my house, and I still haven't tried it same with Coppinger cove or Coalmont OHV
The jeep club was planning coalmont for memorial day weekend, but that plan changed to windrock a few days ago. Looks like a good spot from the videos ive seen. We usually wheel at gulches, uhwarrie, and river rock. For a tiny 80 acre park, gulches is packed with some pretty tough obstacles.
You will have fun at wind rock, have you ever been?
Havent been to windrock yet. Waiting on 2 buddies to finish their builds. Definately want to go bacl to choccolocco though, harlan is also on the list.
Harlan is worth the trip, I have always stayed on the Putney side but after my last trip I think next time I will try to stay on the evarts side. On Putney there is nice campground and very nice cabins but there is only one way up and down the mountain and it is barely wide enough for one rig. Last time the sxs traffic was non stop on that access trail and it became an issue a few times. chocco is another one of those special kind of crazy places that you got to experience at least once.
Based on your build and the pics of the rigs above I can give you a list of some good trails to hit at windrock.
I would start with Coalmont and The Cove and then work your way up to AOP. AOP is the type of place that even if you show up as a non-drinker, you will be doing shots of fireball and yelling woohoo at some point during the day. That then leads to bouncing off the rev limiter and some sort of carnage and recovery during the night. It's just in the air, you can't avoid it you just accept it and enjoy the crazy.
I was told you can get into the cove from Coalmont, trying to find out if that's so. With the rain we have had, crossing the river will be close to impossible.
Yes, you can get into the cove from Coalmont. You can also get into in from other ways. You have to cross water no matter what way you go in and right now it's going to be deep every where.
Whats a good time of the year to wheel up there? Ive seen some videos posted around september, and it looked pretty good.
Normally it drys out in late June through September.
Anymore it's so hard to tell. View attachment 525708View attachment 525709
The JK in front of me was on 37's most of their group was and all had lockers (they came up from Atlanta)
My Sport I had the was on 33's and no lockers or winch. So I turned around and came back out.
Pictures are from October 2021.