We explore a very wet Hurricane Creek Trail then set up camp and grill monster bone in Ribeye Tomahawk Steaks to celebrate the end of an another amazing day spent overlanding in the beautiful forests of North Carolina.
You caught it just in time. I live here in WNC and they actually ran a grader through the whole trial on around 7-5-2024 just a week ago so it will take some time to get back to any kind of challenge at least they didn't close it (Yet) and hopefully not. Nice video. Thanks
@@JR-5465 I'm familiar with Sylva....I used to take people from Sapphire/ Cashiers to the train ride/eat at the Jarrett house as a summer job many years ago.
@@Gourmetoverland Wow I'm 59 and my Grandparents met at the Jerrett house small world. They have been remodeling it and it's supposed to open back up sometime this year it got delayed because one of the roofers fell off the roof and passed away.
Some places you have room to go around and some places it's only wide enough for one vehicle. In the narrow sections someone has to back up until you reach a wide spot that you can safely pass.
It is slightly lifted in the front because when I added the winch the weight pulled the nose down. The lift really just returned it to its normal stance. With the roof top tent and all the gear it probably should be lifted more but it's my daily so It's not practical. It's also on 33" "pizza cutters".
Great video showing majority of the drive on Hurricane Creek. Most videos only show parts. This is a trail I want to drive through one day so this video gives me a great idea how it is.
@@itsaboutfam glad you enjoyed it. My intention was to show it exactly as it is without me talking about it, editing out lots of sections, or adding context. Hope you have an opportunity to check it out sometime.
@@stinky_taco water was very high. We had planned to do another trail this day and hurricane creek day 2 but the water was too high so we wound up doing hurricane Creek 1st and the other train the following day after the water level dropped a bit.
Where were yall at I’ve done hurricane creek several times never seen some of these trails , I did recognize the obstacles by the tree but there had to be another trail in this video . I’d love to know so I could ride it
@@mikeallison1822 this was all hurricane creek with the exception of the camping/cooking spot at the end that isn't part of hurricane Creek. It was very wet (this was from a while ago) so it may have looked different due to very high water levels.
This didn’t age well unfortunately… Hurricane Creek has now been graded down. No longer much of an “offroad” trail. At least they didn’t close it down!
@@backpacker72 the one section with the split screen in the video is the trickiest section. It has a steep drop off to the passenger side of the vehicle but you'll get hung up on a rock if you go to far driver.
When did you run this trail? I live 12 miles from hurricane creek and it’s not rained hard enough in the past 2 months for all that water. Never seen that much water on that trail. Nice video though.
@@keithburris8470 weekend of May 9-10th. I have never seen it as wet as it was. We were actually going to run Old Buzzards first but we couldn't get across the main water crossing so we went over to hurricane creek and ran it (which is this video). the OBR video from that same weekend is on my channel also ( I published the videos in reverse order). Also, where are you from? I spent many summers a little west of this Area.
I live on Jonathan Creek (exit 20). I can imagine the creek crossing on the goat trail. Must have been one of those pop up storms, we sure didn’t get that much water at home. You guys did a good job through all that.
@@selder03 FJ is lifted slightly in the front because nose dropped after installing winch to make level. FJ is on 33" pizza cutters. Defender has some sort of spacer bars that I'm not familiar with. The defender also has stock air ride that allows to raise ride height.
@@Gourmetoverland cool. Thank you. I have a stock tundra TRD . Nitto ReconGrapplers. I'll wait till I level it out to tackle this trail. Thanks for the response and great footage.
@@Gourmetoverland I think because most are riding dual sports and dont want to take the interstate to get there. I think going up is better. I crashed 4 times going down it
