MountaineerTom
LJ Enthusiast, Retired USAF Weapons Loader
Supporting Member
Ride of the Month Winner
Will and I went to Uwharrie yesterday and had a good day. It was busy, but nothing like Thanksgiving when we went. My latest strategy has been to go to the harder trails first hoping to beat the crowds. That kind of worked yesterday as I got to play on the rocks of Daniel, just me and some older dude riding an electric trials style bike. It was just wet enough for me to slide sideways and get high-centered, then smack the shit out of my gas tank skid. We went on up to the top and found a group of "tons n' 40s" bros trying to recover a Toyota with a broke axle. The guy on the electric bike rode up and down the face of Daniel probably 5 times in 20 minutes, making those tons n' 40s guys look bad.
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We ended the day at the hill on Dickie. "Tons n' 40s" bros were leaving when we got there but some other club rolled in before they could get out, so that was a 5 minute situation with some people having no idea what to do. Also, that white Porsche was broken. I'm guessing it's still sitting there today and will be tomorrow, which should be closing day.
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Edit; I forgot to mention I came across a kid (16ish) and his dad in a recently rolled YJ. I didn't bother them, as it looked like they had just got everything settled back down. IDK what happened, but they were sitting at the bottom of the hill on Dutch John and a Jeep with them was rolling his winch line back in. I had seen the YJ earlier and it wasn't beat up.