M&G Ride Oct 11th (Rocks)

[Jeep07]

OK we've got a real treat for the rock loving crowd this year. Jeff and David (250Cows) have been gracious enough to let us come ride at Chinquapin Off-road park on the 11th. This place is rock crawling at its best. This is about an hour east from George's farm.


Cage and Belts required to ride. Lawn chairs recommended to watch.

Also there are some very nice waterfalls and swimming holes (el-rod falls) about 5 miles from chinquapin so depending on the weather it could make for some enjoyable family fun.


Sign up here so we can get an idea on who's going.

[TiredIronGRB]

I plan on coming.

[Barnes4wd]

I will be there!:icon_mrgreen:

[Hokie_YJ]

I should be there, provided my junk is in one piece.

[Redman_30_06]

I should be there.

[aclokwerk]

i plan on being there may bring a few friends with me

[86rocktoy]

I am going to try and make it I have been wanting to try that place out

[Hokie_YJ]

Sweet!

[DeannErica]

Count us in.

[Jeep07]

List as is.
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Jeep07
LandYota
TiredIronGRB
86RockToy
Barnes4WD
Redman_30_60
Deannerica
aclokwerk
HokieYJ

[loves_kelly]

I'd love to go but no rig :icon_cry:

Anyone with a two seater want some company???

[TiredIronGRB]

It's pretty much a spectator area (big playground of rock).

[scubawinger]

I hope to be there but as a spectator/picture taker. What is the plan for arrival (time, meeting place)

[Jeep07]

I hope to be there but as a spectator/picture taker. What is the plan for arrival (time, meeting place)

We normally show up around 9 am or so at the park. I figure the majority of us might meet in kingsport and convoy down 11w to mooresburg then over the mtn to sneedville which means we will need to leave by 7:45ish.

[scubawinger]

Well I need a convoy to follow so just name the place. My knowledge of Kingsport is limited to I-26 to Times News:tongue3:

[TiredIronGRB]

How about somewhere on 11W?

[scubawinger]

that works for me

[Jeep07]

We wanna meet at the old mountaineer or food lion or something on 11w? Say 7:30-8:00 rolling out by 8:05?

[Landyota]

Will pick up the group in Rogersville.

[TiredIronGRB]

We wanna meet at the old mountaineer or food lion or something on 11w? Say 7:30-8:00 rolling out by 8:05?

Sounds like a plan, we may have more room at Food Lion and we could pick up some drinks and ice.

[Barnes4wd]

I am really looking forward to this..... I just need to finish putting the buggy back together :icon_eek:

[Hokie_YJ]

Is the Food Lion just past the Mountaineer up on the hill?

[Jeep07]

Is the Food Lion just past the Mountaineer up on the hill?
:kewl:

[TiredIronGRB]

Is the Food Lion just past the Mountaineer up on the hill?

Yes :icon_mrgreen:

[Hokie_YJ]

Thought so, that works for me. But I guess I'll be leaving from George's house with him anyway.

[Redman_30_06]

Hey Ben, wanna go get some breakfast saturday morning before we head out?

[Hokie_YJ]

Sounds good to me. Are you camping at George's?

[Redman_30_06]

I reckon so. Man, I hope it warms up a little this weekend.

[Jeep07]

I reckon so. Man, I hope it warms up a little this weekend.
supposed to be mid/upper 70's and partly cloudy.

[86rocktoy]

Looks like i am out still have not got my R&P set up and i was really looking forward to this. Hope you all have fun and stay safe. See you all at Fall Crawl

[aclokwerk]

still coming i assume its the food lion
at 701 Hwy 11 West, Church Hill, TN, 37642
at 8am

[Jeep07]

still coming i assume its the food lion
at 701 Hwy 11 West, Church Hill, TN, 37642
at 8am
yup. id get there by 7:50

[Gubni]

See you guys there. Here's a short clip in slow motion from last time I went.

http://www.mustangfarm.com/forum/gubni.gif

[loves_kelly]

We are suposed to be leaving the parking lot at 8 sharp. George is planning on being there at 7:30.

[DeannErica]

Count us out. Maybe next time.

[TiredIronGRB]

Chinquapin is unreal, more rocks there than all the other places I have riden put together. We plan to spend alot more time there.

[aclokwerk]

another awesome time...took way to many photos again...i missed the only roll but ended up taking 4900 photos so over the next few weeks ill try and get them posted but so far they look awesome...thanks for having us out.

[SamuraiGuyTN]

thats alot of photos

[aclokwerk]

well looks like i had some memory card issues the first few hundred pics were lost...ill attempt a recovery of those

[86rocktoy]

some one post some pics so i can see what i missed

[SamuraiGuyTN]

x2

[Gubni]

George stood his on it's nose. After a monent with the brake pedal the rear came down. Eventually he decided to go forward with it. I had a problem with my front driveshaft and quit the day early. Several others had monir problems also, but it's right by the field and is so easy to load up from. I didn't take any pics.

[sparkn89]

great time, no pics tho. someone save the day with some pics

[aclokwerk]

http://my.project-jk.com/data/1236/thumbs/IMG_0660_copy.jpg (http://my.project-jk.com/showphoto.php?photo=31809)

George and his "stress test"

[aclokwerk]

wes and his wall

http://my.project-jk.com/data/1236/thumbs/IMG_9930_copy.jpg (http://my.project-jk.com/showphoto.php?photo=31811)

[aclokwerk]

be hold the power of a jeep this was the only vehicle to make it up the crack on sat. btw i was able to recover all of my pics....
http://my.project-jk.com/data/1236/thumbs/f8906560.jpg (http://my.project-jk.com/showphoto.php?photo=31825)

[Redman_30_06]

I have been waiting on you to post that, I apreciate it. :kewl: Also a big thanks to everyone that helped get mine back together and back on the trailer. I don't think I have ever seen so many rocks in such a small area in all my life, that place is awesome!

[Bluegill]

be hold the power of a jeep this was the only vehicle to make it up the crack on sat.
Atta boy Matt! :kewl:
Nice pics, btw!

[aclokwerk]

thanks i lost the first several hundred photos and spent the last 4 hours getting them back.... i was apparently on crack when i looked at the photo count it should be around 2000-3000 once i sort through all the doubles from the recovery process.....well heres another....almost made it up the wall...
http://my.project-jk.com/data/1236/thumbs/f4791960.jpg (http://my.project-jk.com/showphoto.php?photo=31830)

[aclokwerk]

wes almost rolled on the wall he just did not want to stop trying to get up...second attempt later in the day

http://my.project-jk.com/data/1236/thumbs/f6027616.jpg (http://my.project-jk.com/showphoto.php?photo=31831)

[aclokwerk]

....so close

http://my.project-jk.com/data/1236/thumbs/f6190624.jpg (http://my.project-jk.com/showphoto.php?photo=31832)

[aclokwerk]

ok last one and im off to bed....sorry im quite horrible with names but this gentleman put up a glorious fight with this mountain and unfortunately it won and he was within inches of making it out, but could not quite make it and had to be winched out and over....

http://my.project-jk.com/data/1236/thumbs/f733720.jpg (http://my.project-jk.com/showphoto.php?photo=31833)

[250cows]

Thanks for coming and enjoying the rocks, we had a great time. Great climb for Redman 30_06. Sorry George for scaring you on the nose dive -- Alan Rich climbed your passenger side of that rock, which was exceptionally steeper on Sun. after about 5 tries, and Eric Chidress backflipped off of it.
Oh yeah, thanks for all the M&G leftovers that was great -- there was still buns left over.
May ride again on Nov.15th.

[Hadfield4WD]

Man I gotta get a cage in my Jeep and ride that place. Looks great.

[TiredIronGRB]

Thanks for coming and enjoying the rocks, we had a great time. Great climb for Redman 30_06. Sorry George for scaring you on the nose dive -- Alan Rich climbed your passenger side of that rock, which was exceptionally steeper on Sun. after about 5 tries, and Eric Chidress backflipped off of it.
Oh yeah, thanks for all the M&G leftovers that was great -- there was still buns left over.
May ride again on Nov.15th.

No problem...makes for good "war stories" I'll put Nov. 15 on my calendar :kewl:

[TiredIronGRB]

Here's all the video (http://www.4x4grace.com/tiredirongrb/Chinquipin_101108.wmv) we got, we had a focus issue that made a lot of it too blurry.

[loves_kelly]

Here's all the video (http://www.4x4grace.com/tiredirongrb/Chinquipin_101108.wmv) we got, we had a focus issue that made a lot of it too blurry.


Well, If you had a decent camera man :tongue3:

[Redman_30_06]

Here's all the video (http://www.4x4grace.com/tiredirongrb/Chinquipin_101108.wmv) we got, we had a focus issue that made a lot of it too blurry.

You had to put that last part in there didn't you. :icon_mrgreen:

[Hokie_YJ]

Here's all the video (http://www.4x4grace.com/tiredirongrb/Chinquipin_101108.wmv) we got, we had a focus issue that made a lot of it too blurry.

That's not all, I need to get you mine.

[I_Built_My_Jeep]

looks like a blast those are some great looking buggys and at most very capable cant wait to get to meet yall and better yet wheel with yall

[Hokie_YJ]

You had to put that last part in there didn't you. :icon_mrgreen:

You're the only person I know that's full enough of hot air to fire a 4.3. :icon_mrgreen:

Seriously though, I think you should check the fluid... :laughing1:

[Redman_30_06]

If he would have just checked the fluid I wouldn't have had to do that. :icon_lol:

[Hokie_YJ]

Exactly! :icon_lol:

[TiredIronGRB]

I don't know about you guys but Saturday wore me out. Most of the time in Harlan we crawl some then rest some but at Chinquipin it's constant crawling...which is good!

[Redman_30_06]

I don't know about you guys but Saturday wore me out. Most of the time in Harlan we crawl some then rest some but at Chinquipin it's constant crawling...which is good!

By the end of the day I was beat. My rig is showing a few battle scars as well. It's like Brad and I were talking about, it would take about 3 days at Harlan to hit that many obstacles.

[Jeep07]

it would take about 3 days at Harlan to hit that many obstacles.

Exactly! I love it. I do like harlan too, but if you have 1 day to get a bunch of riding in then chinquapin is the place to do it..

[sparkn89]

You're the only person I know that's full enough of hot air to fire a 4.3. :icon_mrgreen:

Seriously though, I think you should check the fluid... :laughing1:

we know how to fix high gas prices now! brad needs a sticker that says pless power.

[Barnes4wd]

It was a great time. I can't wait to get back out that way. Who ever made the sweat tea that we used to put the fire out on mine sure had a lot of sugar. It smells like burning caramel when the block gets hot.

Matt "you are the wind beneath my wings"

[TiredIronGRB]

Matt "you are the wind beneath my wheels"

Fixed it for you ;)

[Jeep07]

pics yet?

[Barnes4wd]

Ben, when are we going to get to see your video?

[Hokie_YJ]

Hopefully I can get them to George this weekend. I've been working a lot of OT this week, and i was in school until 10 last night. I just haven't had time to get anything done. :icon_lol:

[aclokwerk]

here are my favorites of the few thousand i took....let me know what ya think....

http://picasaweb.google.com/eric.webber.photographer/1011Keepers#:happy1:

[aclokwerk]

the keepers from the august trip are on the old thread as well as here....http://picasaweb.google.com/eric.webber.photographer/Keepers#
these are the previous trip just wanna make sure everyone gets to see them...

[scubawinger]

I love um.

[aclokwerk]

thanks did you look at the old ones

[250cows]

All the keepers are keepers. Great job Eric, thanks for all your hard work.

[96 coutry cherokee]

nice pics!!

[BroncoMike]

I was noticing there were a couple of XJ's there. So does this mean that if your vehicle has a top you can ride here. I thought a while back they had stated that your rig had to have a cage to ride.

[TiredIronGRB]

I was noticing there were a couple of XJ's there. So does this mean that if your vehicle has a top you can ride here. I thought a while back they had stated that your rig had to have a cage to ride.

No, they had cages...trust me you need them.

[aclokwerk]

yep had a cage ....this jeep if i remember correctly it was named S**t Rocket if you look close you can see the cage is mounted on the inside....
http://my.project-jk.com/data/1236/thumbs/IMG_9992_copy.jpg (http://my.project-jk.com/showphoto.php?photo=32239)

[TiredIronGRB]

Here's (http://www.4x4grace.com/tiredirongrb/Ledge.wmv) the sequence of pictures aclokwerk took of Greg and I when we about endoed.

[loves_kelly]

I believe that was 5 frames per second. Still wish someone had a video camera going though...