Trip Report: My vacation in West Virginia

[JeepAddict85]

Hey guys, just got back last night from a GREAT vacation. Left on friday the 3rd, and drove down to West Virginia with my friend Mark. Lots of cool scenery on the drive.

We stayed in a hotel friday night, and drove to our friend Rogers house in the morning. We did some wheeling at his house, he's got 100 acres of land, and has cut about 10 miles of trails on his property:


it had rained a bit, so it was SLOPPY!

None of us could make it up this creek bed, so Roger winched himself out, then he had to hook up a strap to me, since i still dont have one.

lots of tight trails, mostly made for a wrangler (since thats what Roger has as well)

this was a heck of a climb, off camber the whole way up, but i made it:

Poser shot!

 

[JeepAddict85]

We stayed one night at rogers, then all three of us loaded up the jeeps and took off. Stopped by this cool dam, built entirely out rocks/dirt.

you can see how tall it is, the little specks are cars driving by:

from the top:

and looking into the lake on the other side:

More to come...

 

[mbogosia]

Greg! Your alive. I wondered how it went. Sounds like your jeep made it through the trip.

 

[trail rate this]

I heard he even pulled a Wrangler out!

 

[UNCC_99XJ]

Where abouts in WV? I was up in Beckley last weekend...definitely some beautiful scenery in WV!

 

[High2by]

Glad you made it back and had a great time! Nice pics!!!

 

[JeepAddict85]

Roger lives in Point Pleasant. Sunday we headed out from Roger's and did some wheeling at Swiss...

some pretty cool hills and views, didnt stay there very long though.

From Swiss we went to Class VI River Runners, got a cabin up there. Monday we ran the Lower New River, a Class V rapid. Had an absolute blast doing that, i had never been white water rafting before.

From there we went to Green Bank on tuesday, and stayed at a rustic cabin a friend of roger's let us use. Wednesday we ran some gravel roads/local trails, actually got up about 4,000 ft on some mtns. Then we all packed up and drove to Snow Shoe.

Here's a shot from our place on the Mtn:

 

[MELKORsXJ]

looks like someone had quite a darn good time!!!

the scenery is incredible man!

 

[JeepAddict85]

Yea, this was my big vacation for the year. It was tough coming back ha

 

[JeepAddict85]

The Jamboree started thursday night with registration, there was about 120ish jeeps there...but only 6 cherokees! (dont worry, i was sportin the SEC shirt and raggin on all the wrangler owners) We ran the first trail on Friday. We started with Bear Pin.

Here is our group from the trail:

You can see we had another cherokee in the group. His was called the Green Witch...pretty nice setup, on 34's. Even had 2 small stickers on the front fenders of the wicked witch from the wizard of oz.

Green Witch posing on a rock

right by the tree i had to give a wrangler a tug up the rest of the rock pile...sadly no pictures of it. my cherokee made it up just fine :thumbup:

here's a better view of the rock garden, it's steeper than it looks, you have to keep up a good amount of momemtum

ill try to get some videos up as well from fri/sat

 

[MELKORsXJ]

hooray for jeep jammy!
looks like it was fun showin' up the TJ/YJ/CJs...

 

[kf_chris]

Looks like a fun time! I was going to go to that jammy but the move prevented it. WV has so many places to wheel it's sick.

 

[High2by]

That's a great site to see. Jeeps and more Jeeps!!!

 

[XJfire75]

Looks like a fun time man!

Lol

I wanna do something like that in a few years but to Moab. Stay here and there and take like 10 days. Leave Friday and stay where ever for 2 days getting there and wheeling first and middle of the week and take my time coming back seeing the sites.

 

[ncredneck]

looks like a blast

 

[JeepAddict85]

Ok, here are pics from Day 2 of the Jambo...we ran Corderoy, a tougher trail.

Top of the World, everyone getting in line with the groups they will ride with:

 

[jeep ride]

Nice pics thanks for sharing

 

[JeepAddict85]

started uploading some of the videos, heres a few from corderoy:


First obstacle of the day, big drop into a mud hole, then a hill climb out:

Roger going first...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuyH6zp80Yg

time to show em how a cherokee does it...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sa8ITmL7XZk

mark goin...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhQRcsyskFk

less than half of our group made it up without winching...but after all the ragging i got all week for driving a xj...it was nice to show my friends up haha

 

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less than half of our group made it up without winching...but after all the ragging i got all week for driving a xj...it was nice to show my friends up haha

Hell yeh show them what the XJ can do.

 

[JeepAddict85]

mark stuck in some ruts...kept shoving him towards a tree as he tried to climb out:

roger getting some serious flex on a rock:

some of my carnage:

leaving the trail:

I have lots more videos to post up...