I used to post a bunch here at 4x4wire when I had my '88 Montero, but haven't been here lately since I got my '04 Rubicon and started wheelin' with our local club axletwisters.com .

Anyhoo ... our club is having a ride at Tellico Feb 3,4,5 and anyone is welcome to join ... if you're interested post here, or email or phone me.

I plan to camp both Friday and Saturday nights at whatever campsite is available (Stateline, Big Oak Cove, Campsite 3, etc).

If you just show up without notice, no problemo, look for me in the White Jeep Wrangler Rubicon.

Hope to see some of my old friends there!!


Ray Miles
(423)503-2427
iiiselimhyar@yahoo.com

Ray: What's going on? We were tlaking about you at the Oct Uwharrie run. You guys running any of the milder trails?

Hey! Sure, no doubt we will have various runs on various trails, including some of the milder ones. Every time I go to Tellico it seems more "paved" than it used to be in some sections, and more radical than it used to be on others, so it's not always easy to predict which trails will be "mild."

I miss the Uwharrie rides, and I guess I'll need to get to one sometime again to see most of my old friends from 4x4wire. It's just a little too far to drive to trail ride for me these days. Soem of the ebst aspects of the Uwharrie rides were the fun at camp, though, so I'll have to keep that in mind ... not to mention the nostalgia of hanging out with the folks with whom I first got started offroading.

You all are a cool bunch of dudes. The AxleTwisters are the same type of folks ... no real radically built rigs, and only a few trailer their rigs to the rides.

Anywho ... hope to see you and others there.

Ray "3B" Miles

Bueller ... Bueller ... Bueller!!

Where's the Beef!?!

btt ... wow, I thought more folks would be up for Tellico in February ... I guess not.

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Would love to go next weekend....but...I have to work <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" />
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Ambush175 ... maybe next time. Some folks have expressed interest in going one weekend in March ... we'll see.


A handful of us will be there about noon tomorrow (Friday) and will either camp at Stateline or Big Oak Cove which are both pretty near the trail head on the TN side (the way in from Tellico Plains). Look for an olive drab CJ, black TJ and white Rubicon. Weather looks like 20% chance of showers Friday and 40% Saturday, with temps down into the 20s on Saturday night.

Tray to bring firewood if anyone plans to brave the cold.

Have fun!! Look forward to the pics Ray.

I'll post a pics link soon.

Camps were all deserted when we arrived Friday at 11:00 am, so we had our pick of the sites at Stateline. This is the first time I've ever seen it so uninhabited.

Friday three rigs rode School Bus. I had the top down because it was about 65 degrees. It was my first time on School Bus, which I found to be a cool trail. It took 6 1/2 hours to ride 5 to 4 to 11 to 3 and back out 5 to camp. I shattered my passenger window on a root ... I could have sworn it was down, until glass was everywhere. Got it replaced pretty cheap yesterday.

Saturday eight rigs ascended Slick Rock in the snow, all without winching until the very last obstacle at the very top after the actual slick rock portion. Somehow the rain and snow had washed the rocks and made it easier than usual to get traction. I rode with a friend due to my missing window.

We ended up getting about 6 inches of snow at Stateline campground, and it got down to 21 degrees ... quite a contrast from Friday's warm and sunny weather. My tent caved in while we were out wheeling, because the snow was so wet and heavy. It sprang back to life when I knocked the snow off. Can you say tent heaters ... I had two of them running and could still see my breath it was so cold Sunday morning.

Saturday night three rigs rode up the gravel road past the observation point at the top of Lower 2 and then on to the first really steep hill on Upper 2. Snow was at least 8 inches deep in places and was probably a foot deep by morning. There's something cool about the silence that comes during snow wheeling, especially at night. One of the most fun night runs I've been on in a long time.

Roads were solid ice on Sunday morning until we got well past Green Cove on the way to Tellico Plains. It was kind of funny driving through town all covered in snow because it hadn't snowed at all there.

pics link soon to come

That is a FUN route on Friday. Lemme guess.. the tree roots on the right on the first BIG ledge not the small first one on schoolbus.

Lookin forward to the pics.