Tellico to re-open???

volman940 · Jun 15, 2016

This was on Upper 2 if I remember correctly. I sure do miss going there!

TBItoy · Jun 15, 2016

Re: Re: Tellico to re-open???

patooyee said:
Yup. Really the outdoor aspect of Tellico is what got me started. That roughing it / camping / being able to drive to the top of a mountain and enjoy those views experience is basically completely lost in our sport now. Really it has never been the same to me since Tellico closed. As I've already stated, being homeless in a dirt lot for 2 or 3 days is not my thing.

Yep,

That's why I'd pretty much rather go local riding at Pickett/Blackhouse or Wilder or Windrock and hit a few obstacles during a long trail ride than go to parks and hit 100s of obstacles back to back to back.

truckbroke · Jun 15, 2016

TBItoy said:
Yep,

That's why I'd pretty much rather go local riding at Pickett/Blackhouse or Wilder or Windrock and hit a few obstacles during a long trail ride than go to parks and hit 100s of obstacles back to back to back.

I love the trail riding to each obstacle Tellico offered. Windrock and Harlan are the closest two to this I believe.

muddinmetal · Jun 15, 2016

I like long trail rides through the mountain and narrow climbs with banks on each side if that makes any sense. I am not a huge fan of large rock gardens and "playgrounds"

truckbroke · Jun 15, 2016

volman940 said:
This was on Upper 2 if I remember correctly. I sure do miss going there!

Good stuff!! That's back when 39s were big ass tires..

patooyee · Jun 15, 2016

truckbroke said:
Good stuff!! That's back when 39s were big ass tires..

I saw my first set of cut 39 boggers at Tellico and was amazed. The guy running them said he knew people running 44's and I was like:

I remember it today like I remember the first set of tits I touched.

truckbroke · Jun 15, 2016

LMAO... I saw my first BUGGY there in 2000. It was some locals that had took the cab and bed off a crew cab long bed 3500 truck and built a tube chassis. Had 44" boggers and was a big long basterd. drove up the hard side (what seemed impossible) of guard rail like a Boss. We were all like Holy ****!!

grcthird · Jun 15, 2016

muddinmetal said:
I like long trail rides through the mountain and narrow climbs with banks on each side if that makes any sense. I am not a huge fan of large rock gardens and "playgrounds"

There you go again, getting us confused with your dating sites. :-*

muddinmetal · Jun 15, 2016

grcthird said:
There you go again, getting us confused with your dating sites. :-*

Hey, only ONE of you fawkers tried to find me a good lady... ONE!

creepycrawly · Jun 15, 2016

muddinmetal said:
Hey, only ONE of you fawkers tried to find me a good lady... ONE!

And how did that work out for ya?!?

I don't want these assholes looking for me a lady. Hahahahaha.

muddinmetal · Jun 15, 2016

creepycrawly said:
And how did that work out for ya?!?

I don't want these assholes looking for me a lady. Hahahahaha.

I never followed up on that one

pholmann · Jun 15, 2016

muddinmetal said:
I like long trail rides through the mountain and narrow climbs with banks on each side if that makes any sense. I am not a huge fan of large rock gardens and "playgrounds"

You would love windrock then. Tons and tons of challenging trail riding. Throw some rock gardens and very difficult spots in the trails randomly and you have windrock.

HageredYota85 · Jun 15, 2016

Jduck said:
Id venture to guess that unless you knew the trails real well it wont be much to see. I was up there in mid to late '11 and some of the stuff was already unrecognizable. This was lower 2 then, 5 years ago

It only takes nature 4-7 years to reclaim man made damage to the earth. Heck, I have seen slabs of concrete get grown over with brush and small shrubbery in just a couple years time. I grew up in tellico riding 4wheelers and in Jeeps, hiking and trout fishing a lot of the tributaries too. The "trails" are no longer recognisable unless you know what your looking for, like you said.

HageredYota85 · Jun 15, 2016

I still love to go into those woods though!!

truckbroke · Jun 15, 2016

I figured slick rock would be a long hike and hard to find. But guard rail and helicopter pad maybe even school bus not as hard.

TBItoy · Jun 15, 2016

HageredYota85 said:
It only takes nature 4-7 years to reclaim man made damage to the earth. Heck, I have seen slabs of concrete get grown over with brush and small shrubbery in just a couple years time. I grew up in tellico riding 4wheelers and in Jeeps, hiking and trout fishing a lot of the tributaries too. The "trails" are no longer recognisable unless you know what your looking for, like you said.

All those trails were either back filled with dirt and sowed with grass, or bulldozed into smooth logging roads.

I say open it back up and let us dig all that new dirt back out and let it wash down the mountain into catch ponds.

Every 10 years or so haul it all back up the mountain and fill in the trails!

Makes just as much sense as any of the governments other "Economic stimulus plans"

truckbroke · Jun 15, 2016

When I go I'm gonna **** in the stream and hope a POS Brook trout chokes on it.

SHELBS44 · Jun 15, 2016

truckbroke said:
When I go I'm gonna **** in the stream and hope a POS Brook trout chokes on it.

Hahahahahahahahaha. Awesome. Hell yeah

mdo817 · Jun 16, 2016

I still think we all need to go up there, catch all the trout we can, build a big ass fire and cook them! Don't get me wrong, I am a pro "catch and release" advocate, I have never tasted a Black Bass, but still say F U T U!

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