Quad trip photos

Added pictures of the quad trip on the photo page link on the right.

Wild West Virginia Quad Ride

It was another Green Lizard Adventure on the quad this past weekend.

I got the chance to go with the “Windber 9” to the Hatfield – McCoy Trail system in Southern West Virginia. The trail system was developed several years ago and consists of 6 or so different trailheads with a total of over 500 miles of trails.

The plan was to meet up with the “gang” on Thursday morning and head to the first trail named the Little Coal River. The trail was our warm up day and was planned to be an easy day of riding. The trails themselves were rather fun, some recent grooming left loose topsoil surface which was perfect for spirited riding in the woods. Outside of Tim having a “little spill” it was a fun 4 hours of riding.

After the riding we headed to Delbarton (actually Taylorsville) to Cold Creek Lodge. It unique..above a feed store and in the middle of town. The room was actually rather clean and well done..having all 10 of us in a single unit was tight but thing ended up working out. Luckily, the chain saw gang ended up in the room formerly called a living room..and the walls were thick enough to muffle the high speed 2 stokes doing the noise making.

Friday was to be spent at the system know as Dingness Rum, in the Logan area. I got no idea how people find these place, most are hidden away pretty well but Doug lead us down the right road to the trail head.

Below you can see the mud twins taking on the major mud holes of the trail, Chopper John on the new quad and Jeremy in the far. Just a note..Jeremy did not need hlep out. CJ did not fair so well..can you say winch?
One of our lunch breaks along the trail.
Another great day of riding, no major issue, maybe a few tires. Can-am seem to have a heating issue which caused for headaches with a few guys but they knew their machines well enough to keep steaming ahead (get it?). Rodger did decide to prove the worse place to ride on this trail was the packing lot. Damn highsides! Lots of good trails on this system and I’d highly suggest going there if your riding in the area.

That night we headed to Kentucky for dinner and to let Rob raise his type of hell…

Saturday was the last riding day and we went to Browning Fork, which we were able to ride to from the lodge. Up the hill on to the trail and we were riding. A quick pit stop for breakfast in Kentucky and back to the trails. This day ended up being the highest mileage day with about 80 miles but it was because of rather tame trails and lots of dust. Tim again stole the show with a missing valve stem in a rear tire..go figure. So we left them to go to town for a new gut..long story made short we found a place to do it as Jim “MacGyver” aka silver tongue talked us in. Action Figure Joe and I got a few extra miles in as the pack could not keep up with us on our way back to the lodge..we decided to turn back and get them..I think Joe go the most miles for the day. Good Job Joe.

While away the abandoned crew decided to build shelter in case they had to spend the night. Chopper John, Tim and Jeremy are shown in the lean to build for Broke Back II.

At the end of the day we stumbled upon a cleared mountain which was being opened up for a highway. It was quite the scene standing on one of the highest peaks looking at the progress coming through.

Overall it was a great trip.