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That's Mr Asshole to you
This was one of the best camping trips I have ever done. Great weather, great people and amazing scenery.
I did not plan the route we took but I did have most of trail downloaded to my phone along with a the area downloaded from Google maps so I could view it without cell service. Also had a DeLorme paper atlas but never needed it. I had a tablet that I thought had downloaded the area but I guess I did something wrong and it didn't work.
We started in St Joe, Arkansas. Filled up with gas met the rest of the group and headed out.
The first water crossing is the Buffalo River and is the deepest. It only takes a few minutes to get here from St Joe. Started into the river and realized very quick that it was too deep so we backed up and hit the highway for a long detour.
We picked up the trail again where 265 meets Searcy 1 Hwy just south of Richland Creek camp ground. Checked out the camp ground and the creek near it.
Headed south from there and took a little break to check out Falling Water falls.
Headed south some more and found a narrow road off the main road that appeared to loop back to the main road so we turned off and started to explore. Very narrow and overgrown in some spots but a nice road with some fun obstacles.
Camp site for the first night. Got it set up just in time since it started to rain and keep it up till about 3am.
Got back on the route and were making good time thanks to what was a pretty well maintained Forest Service road. We talked about finding a site early in the day and relax and maybe get in some fishing. Then this happened. 2 Big trees fallen over and took out a few smaller ones.
There was a narrow, step, and slick bypass that went up to the right. Tried to get up and it was just too slick. We would loose a ton of time and miss too much of the trail to turn around we got onto plan B. Thankfully we brought a chain saw with us at the last minute.
I did not plan the route we took but I did have most of trail downloaded to my phone along with a the area downloaded from Google maps so I could view it without cell service. Also had a DeLorme paper atlas but never needed it. I had a tablet that I thought had downloaded the area but I guess I did something wrong and it didn't work.
We started in St Joe, Arkansas. Filled up with gas met the rest of the group and headed out.
The first water crossing is the Buffalo River and is the deepest. It only takes a few minutes to get here from St Joe. Started into the river and realized very quick that it was too deep so we backed up and hit the highway for a long detour.
We picked up the trail again where 265 meets Searcy 1 Hwy just south of Richland Creek camp ground. Checked out the camp ground and the creek near it.
Headed south from there and took a little break to check out Falling Water falls.
Headed south some more and found a narrow road off the main road that appeared to loop back to the main road so we turned off and started to explore. Very narrow and overgrown in some spots but a nice road with some fun obstacles.
Camp site for the first night. Got it set up just in time since it started to rain and keep it up till about 3am.
Got back on the route and were making good time thanks to what was a pretty well maintained Forest Service road. We talked about finding a site early in the day and relax and maybe get in some fishing. Then this happened. 2 Big trees fallen over and took out a few smaller ones.
There was a narrow, step, and slick bypass that went up to the right. Tried to get up and it was just too slick. We would loose a ton of time and miss too much of the trail to turn around we got onto plan B. Thankfully we brought a chain saw with us at the last minute.
