Ocala National Forest Night ride 11/26/2011

[JGBB04]

Those of you on HXC probably know Gator & Mark. Gator's club Clay County 4x4 does an annual holiday night ride in the ONF which I've gone on the last 3 years. They keep it a nice easy, stock friendly ride so anyone can go. Mark couldn't make the actual run but did the pre run w/ Gator & they came up w/ a new twist this year which Gator described as a small water crossing.

My GPS track (was tempted to hit the Onstar button)

Normally we don't start until it's already dark but this year we took the Fort Gates Ferry which only runs during the day so we had to start earlier. Except for those on the pre-run none of us had done this before & was fun way to start off. The ferry route has been crossing the St. Johns river in this spot since the 1800's. It can take 2 cars at a time & takes about 10 minutes to cross, we had 10 trucks so it took us about an hour & half to get everyone across.
More of it's history here
http://www.tampabay.com/features/hu...rry-still-crossing-the-st-johns-river/1029732

　

These are from Gator
　

More pics
http://s567.photobucket.com/albums/ss117/JGBB04/Ocala night ride 2011/?albumview=slideshow

[video=youtube;X-pvQlYT040]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-pvQlYT040[/video]

 

[HUMMER INVESTMENTS]

:corn: I hope youll have more!

 

[Bigunit]

Me too. Very cool!

 

[JGBB04]

Other than the link to my other pics there's not much, got 1 or 2 other video clips worth working on. The trip is real mild so I didn't film alot & the Gopro does not do well at night.

 

[alrock]

Glad you got out and had some fun.

 

[Big2dabank]

I didn't get back into town until Sunday, wish I could have made the trip. I am sure onstar would have been confused about how you ended up in the middle of a river. Of course it is a Hummer and it was marketed like a submarine.

 

[IndyHummers]

Sweet! Keep me in mind for the next one!

 

[06 H3]

that looks like a blast! Two unique rigs too!

 

[JGBB04]

Sweet! Keep me in mind for the next one!

Normally I do post this one & Mark does on HXC but Gator wanted to keep it small this time because of the ferry crossing. He had planned for a max of 20 trucks which would have taken 3hrs to get across on the ferry, so it was good thing thing not everyone showed. If anyone wants we could plan a trip on here.

 

[JGBB04]

[video=youtube;QyB2WS5ZJPY]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyB2WS5ZJPY[/video]


This one we're sub-titling "u-turn at a meth lab"

[video=youtube;Dzm6s-kGMYU]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dzm6s-kGMYU[/video]