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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".

It's just off 60 in a tight corner

The video is from a while ago and at that time there were no signs or gates or anything saying it was closed. Not sure about the current status of the trail? It is a fun trail with some nice obstacles.

@@Gourmetoverland they put a big metal post in center of the trail this spring. I was hoping it opened back up. Thanks for sharing. It’s a beautiful area hate it’s gone

Definitely no post when I was there ​@@1870offroad

Whereabouts in North Carolina do you live?

@@Gourmetoverland Sylva is about 10 miles from the Cherokee Indian reservation.

@@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.

@@Bugout_Overland haven't heard about this + this video of hurricane creek was shot back in May . Any additional details?

Short Trail but a little more technical than I had thought. Agree great view at the end.

@@Gorilla_ADV I always see motorcycles when I go. Usually they are coming "down" the trail while I'm going "up" the trail though.

@@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

@@Gorilla_ADV makes sense. 1st trip I had to use my winch to get out of a pickle. This trip I had a better time of it.

@@Gorilla_ADV just put up a video of a short trail in North GA.

@@Gourmetoverland ill check it out, thanks

was a lot of fun!

@@backwoodstherapy 33" pizza cutters 255/80/17 on stock rims.

Cooper st maxx

@@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.

@@selder03 I think if you go with another truck you'd be fine. Best if y'all have winches as well.

@@Gourmetoverland agreed on both. Once I level out, I'll have a buffer for a bumper and winch.

@@appalachhaun_adventures low side gets you stuck actually. Going high side was most successful....that being said the obstacles constantly change so does the "best" route.

@@Gourmetoverland ya I just went through it wet 2 days ago and stayed straight through the low side of that section with the terrain features. Idk when yours was filmed? I think it is a tad worse now a few days ago. No probs tho. I’ll have a trail video in a few weeks. Going high side just makes u slide back down to the low side all over the place lol

This video was shot in May. I went low the last time (during winter) and got stuck. Also depends on the set up of your rig I suppose. I have another video on my channel about choosing a line that shows the results of three different lines on this exact section.

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@@Gourmetoverland oh cool 😎 I’ll check it out. I’ve just seen people going high and slide sideways and back down into the low side the whole time 🤷🏻‍♂️ lol

@@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.

it's now a dirt road. they took equipment and smoothed it out since it has gotten so popular

@@MrMrsregor they do it frequently because they're obligated to maintain the road for the house that's on it

@@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.

@@keithburris8470 I grew up between Brevard and Cashiers although I'm in GA now. Love NC.

Which rig are you driving? I just watched the old buzzard video

​@@keithburris8470I drive the FJ. What rig do you run?

@@RDOverland where are you out of?

@@Gourmetoverland I’m in NY

@@RDOverland what type of trails do you having your area? I haven't heard much about NY overlanding.

@@Gourmetoverland not many. 😂 it’s hard to find trails close by

@@RDOverland check out the hurricane creek video I just published....it's has many crossings. These videos are from the same weekend it took me a while to get the second video out.

@@Gourmetoverland sounds good. I’ll take a peak. 👀

@@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.

@@Gourmetoverland I’ve never seen it green or that wet that’s probably why it looked so different , thank you for your reply

@@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.

@@Gourmetoverland I enjoyed it..thank you!

No water in either vehicle....both were completely fine. Hit a few rocks on the underside of each.

Love this trail. I have never seen the water that deep. I am past due for a return trip. ❤

@@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.

Yes you should be fine. The trails change a lot based on the amount of rain and amount of traffic. This trip we didn't use any recovery gear but the previous trip to these same trails we used every piece of recovery gear we had. I'd go with a buddy truck and bring some recovery gear just to have your bases covered.

@@Gourmetoverland thank you!

On my previous trip to that trail I went straight down the middle and bottomed out a bit on the driver's side as the rut is a bit deeper on the driver's side. Just starting to work on the hurricane creek video from the same weekend.

I've camped next to it last trip

@@Gourmetoverland It's on my bucket list to camp next to a river or creek. We don't have those types of spots here in Florida. Well we do....but there are most likely gators in them.

We have plenty of them in North Georgia. Not hard to find and really scenic.

@@Gourmetoverland We are planning a trip hopefully next year to North Georgia or in the Carolinas. Friends and others here on YT and from some research say the same thing about plenty of river /creek camping spots.

You can really hit north ga and north Carolina in the same trip because sections of the two states are very close to each other.

Asheville NC

Thanks for the sub!

If you have one come join us on our next adventure.

@@Gourmetoverland Diesel D5 for me. More practical.

@@chrisowen2763 D5?

Sorry, LR Discovery 5.

@@chrisowen2763 saw a few of those at a get together in downtown Atlanta a couple of months ago

I was running 17-19 psi using staun tire deflators

Couldn't agree more

Slightly upgraded tire but he is going to change again soon. He also wasn't aired down at all and I believe I was. I am working on the extended video of that day now.

No the full trail video isn't out yet I'll try to put it out in a few days along with hurricane creek trail as well.

@@Gourmetoverland Ok thanks! I just wanted to make sure I wasn't overlooking it. I know it can take a while to edit videos so no rush. Did you do both trails on the same trip/day?

@@TrailTape we actually did hurricane creek on day 1and old buzzards roost on day 2 because on day 1 old buzzards roost was impassable at the second water crossing due to heavy rain fall.

Its a great trail. The last time I was on it I had to use a winch....this time I picked a better line and it wasn't bad (I'm the FJ in this video). The trail was extremely wet but not as muddy.

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Thank you so much

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@@Gourmetoverland awesome thank you! Looking forward to more videos

Yes it is long. It was the second shot i ever pulled on the machine. I actually liked the taste and texture much better than some of the shots ive pulled since that are more correct duration & amount. Just changed coffee beans so i need to start dialing in all over again. This machine was only intended to be used on camping trips but I enjoy the process so might sell some of my fancier espresso machines and start using this one daily.

That’s an interesting thought… I own no espresso machines, should I start with one of these

​@@Anwarboy786it's certainly not a bad value. Just keep in mind espresso is sort of like golf....you constantly have to work on it and as the variables change the output changes as well. It can be frustrating and awesome all in the span of 10 mins.😂. You also need a good grinder which can be had for 75.00 or less (I just did a video on an inexpensive grinder I purchased).

@@Gourmetoverland Haha! first time i heard that one. I have a 1zpresso X-Pro already for the last year which i use to make aeropress and v60's, it's been delectable. As i'm the only person who drinks decent coffee in my household, or wants to go through the effort of it, i think one of these might be better than something like a bambino plus, also i only have coffee once or twice a day max.. currently enjoying arabic/turkish coffees if i ever want an espresso style kick.

@@Anwarboy786 have you ever tried India Monsoon Coffee? Malabar Gold by Josuma Coffee is a great espresso.

Fair enough. Since I'm the only one drinking from it and my family doesn't drink espresso I usually just do a quick rise under the faucet and reuse. Do you have a Flair machine?

@@Gourmetoverland No.

@@sonjaspackenberger9250 what type of machine do you have? Just curious how you found the video because on this channel I don't usually include coffee (just trying to better understand how this content is getting delivered) I've done some other coffee stuff in the past.

@@Gourmetoverland I have a Silvia.

@@sonjaspackenberger9250 👍 I had one of those as well years ago.

Yes OEM roof rack with unistrut cross bars

Did you make your roof rack wind deflector?

​@@viewfavoritesthe wind deflector is by ricochet offroad armor

@@Gourmetoverlandthank you for sharing man

I love roof top tents (probably wouldn't be a camper without one). Believe it or not they don't make a huge impact on mpgs or at least mine doesn't which is sort of surprising. I don't get great MPG in the FJ 4wd but heavy tires had a greater impact than the RTT.

ultimately for any given obstacle (yes this was very simple) to know how your rig will handle it you have to drive it. I just found it interesting how on a fairly benign trail two vehicles that have done far more difficult trails got hung up.