Riding Big Cypress Jan 2006

MuddingMark · January 23, 2006, 11:56:22 AM

Hi All,

This weekend Keeter, Gamer and a few other camped out in the Big Cypress just north of Monroe Station. I joined them for the ride on Saturday morning.

MuddingMark

This is their camp:

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MuddingMark · January 23, 2006, 11:57:53 AM

This is another camp picture (Keeter):

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MuddingMark · January 23, 2006, 12:05:21 PM

We drove for miles. This is up on higher ground where the pine trees gow.

Breaktime on the trail:

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MuddingMark · January 23, 2006, 12:08:19 PM

When we got into lower land the pine trees gave way to the cypress and the trail was full of mud holes.

Breaktime along the trail, note the water holes behind us:

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MuddingMark · January 23, 2006, 12:09:57 PM

This is another picture in the same place as above:

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MuddingMark · January 23, 2006, 12:14:22 PM

Hey Keeter,

Tell Mike that I'm really sorry about the mud. I didn't realize he was so close to me and the mud was a little deep there. It must had of ruined that white shirt he had on.

MuddingMark

wilburz · January 23, 2006, 12:17:09 PM

Looks like yall had a good time. Those gators look good on that Ozark too!

Anoriginal · January 23, 2006, 01:41:27 PM

Nice pics! Looks like you had a great time. How far north of the end of the rock road did you go? Did you make it to the praries? Beautiful out there.

Gamer · January 23, 2006, 04:58:59 PM

We sure did have a good time in Big Cypress. It was nice to meet you Mark and Keeter. I look forward to riding with you all again. I have to say though that Keeter was the man out there. He was prepared and brought the things we needed to fix two of the quads that broke down on the trails. We will have to plan another ride sometime soon before it dries up completely. The pics look good and I'll have to get Durkan to post some more.

Gamer · January 23, 2006, 05:12:50 PM

Quote from: Anoriginal on January 23, 2006, 01:41:27 PM
Nice pics! Looks like you had a great time. How far north of the end of the rock road did you go? Did you make it to the praries? Beautiful out there.

Actually we ended up taking a trail off the rock road that had miles and miles of mud and water holes. It was a great trail. It went north for 4 to 5 miles. It ran into another trail that we took to the west which ran into the prairies your talking about. We found the end of the rock road and took it back to camp. I really can't believe that the park service is putting those rock roads in. There terrible and are more of an eye sore than anything else. If they at least flattend them a little bit maybe it would be better.

MuddingMark · January 23, 2006, 10:00:11 PM

Hey Wilburz,

You would had of loved to had been there. The riding was great with lots of different challenges. The company was a lot of fun too.

Those gators really did the job!

MuddingMark

raptor426 · January 23, 2006, 10:43:02 PM

hey, ive been there before

Durkan · January 23, 2006, 10:49:07 PM

yep we had a good time out there. The only thing is those rocks are murder. other than that it was alot of fun. MuddingMark was kind enough to rooster up enough mud to cover and smother me

but i lived. Couple of the bikes were not running right, plus we were exhausted so we left earlier than expected. We have to plan another trip soon.

innocent_bystander · January 23, 2006, 10:57:01 PM

Yuppers, my quad was one not running right. Having to pull start the whole trip as the battery was dead. But had a great time none the less. We definatly have to plan another one soon.

wilburz · January 24, 2006, 12:10:22 PM

Can you use the 50 dollar permit for Croom too? Anywhere else?

MuddingMark · January 24, 2006, 12:40:04 PM

Quote from: wilburz on January 24, 2006, 12:10:22 PM
Can you use the 50 dollar permit for Croom too? Anywhere else?

I believe that the BICY permit is only good in the Big Cypress.

MuddingMark

Keeter · January 24, 2006, 03:01:00 PM

I got my Gators yesterday. I am ready for the next ride. Just a day trip, the snoring of Durkan and innocent_bystander was too much.

We can hit Concho, that should be perfect for the day.

Keeter · January 25, 2006, 04:04:45 PM

Here is another shot of the same trail.

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TAINA · March 15, 2006, 01:42:09 AM

WHERE IS BIG CYPRESS?

Keeter · March 16, 2006, 05:35:56 PM

Big Cypres is west of miami about 40 miles off of highway 41 (tamiami Trail) .From Tampa it is south of I75 and highway 29.