hi there welcome to the beaton trail and in this episode we're going gonna
have a multi-part series and this is our hatfield of mccoy buffalo and devil ants
the weather in west virginia this time of year march into april can be a little bit
wet and with that we had some rainy days and we had some snow but at the same time
we had some beautiful beautiful weather and it was chilly in the morning but we stayed
in williamson west virginia while the other half of the team stayed across the border in kentucky
and this little town has everything you need fuel and supplies and even a kfc
butch's location only two three miles away and that's where the team
stayed the majority of us were in rooms there once we met up we were able to get through
williamson and head out the trailhead isn't too far outside of town and it's convenient
we did have a large group in this case we had 16 or 17 vehicles
again radio communication with our little radios and that worked out pretty
well as always when you're riding on the road it's expected that you
follow the traffic rules and the safe of course everybody probably does not
have directionals or horns but you should use hand signals and give way to other vehicles
having so many vehicles together and going off-road it's always important
to have good communications at intersections we generally wait
for each other and make sure we haven't lost anybody and the last person in line
also has a radio and keeps it touched to make sure nobody falls behind or has a breakdown
big thanks out to shane and gary and frank for their assistance and filming part of this episode
using their rides as mounts as well as camera and the footage so thank you very much
we had the honda talon and we did have our heat and enclosure on just in case and we did need
it several times because we ran into a bit of snow not necessarily white-out conditions but
it was getting pretty slippery most of the time the trails were not too dusty
we found a nice hill and josh and team went up ahead and just checked it out and this was more
of a day where it was overcast and gray but everybody wanted to go up this hill and so
we all took turns going up and coming down and i believe it did dead end out to a further black so
shane and josh had checked it out ahead and there was not much that we wanted to go beyond that
but still nonetheless we hung out there and had lunch and had a great time
so
yeah a little slippery a little slippery a little bit high k dane it kind of like kicks you
but we're alive and jonathan pedro oh and jaden norfleet yeah whole bunch of people on there
you're all good we're ready to go and we'll get back in because they're ready to run right away
do
having a great time down here we are at the buffalo trail system and we just did a really
cool hill we let uh we left the bigger units go up first and we did a test we did a drone
flight with russia's going up and flying around stuff like that and now we're going to go down
into town but it was good enjoy the muddy show for a while and we'll catch up with you later
when riding there's always a town nearby and sometimes it may take you a little
bit of planning but all the maps are online we utilize the mix we use onyx and we use some other
apps but they all will get you in the right place and bob t maps were one of the more
favorite ones that we used uh it's recommended uh you can go ahead and we'll put a link up
so you can find those maps and they're reasonable and well worth the investment we use a samsung
seven inch eight inch tablet comes in handy uh shane has a 10 inch tablet in his and
we have all the maps we need so shane was leading the way
most of this trip and everybody was just enjoying it so we didn't sweat the mapping
normally we would have online maps for you but it's just such a huge location that it defeats the
purpose of enjoying the ride if you're focusing on the maps as long as you have one or two people
that have cell service maybe have a different coverage type a t and verizon you should be okay
and otherwise gps's work fine so as long as you have a good mix you're good to go and we stopped
in town to have a snack and fill up on gas and to regroup there's always side trips to make plenty
to see and i know there's outlaws out there as well but that's we'll save that for another video
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so after we had our break in town we headed back out on the trail
to see more of devil ants and beyond
like i had stated before the weather changes so you definitely in the spring want to be able to
have multiple options in layers or if you have a flip up windshield you'll definitely be using it
but this time of year i don't recommend that you take your windshield off
we had frank in his polaris xp 1000s and he was in the elements most of the time
only when it rained and poured was he uncomfortable so keep that in mind if you're
going to be going and you can always pull over and have something put on rain gear or otherwise
trail conditions are great i do have to say half philly mccoy takes great care and making sure
there's no major obstacles there you'll front find some divots and some gullies and some of
the edges of these trails are off the edge so you want to make sure that you don't get too close
and you uh watch around turns because we did have a lot of oncoming traffic
it's a great way to keep in communication have radio up on front the person in front we usually
call ahead traffic shane did a great job on that we just knew hey we have two or three
vehicles coming through or we'd be able to communicate if we had to take an alternate
route the sunsets were beautiful the weather was beautiful on most of the days in the afternoon
again appreciate everybody for watching this is just a multi-part series we had so much footage
to go through that four or five cameras front and rear as well as drone shots and insta360
there's just so much to go through and rather than bore everybody
we figured we put this together and you'd be able to see it and then this is multiple months later
video schedule's been pretty busy and we've been taking a lot of trips
the whole team was great we had a diverse set of riders and passengers
and everybody had a great time
so
hatfield of mccoy in west virginia and parts of kentucky which we visited
just offers great trails all year round now of course in the winter
some of these can be very treacherous we only had a small taste of the winter a little bit of
snow a little bit of rain majority of the time it was beautiful and we highly recommend that
you get down there we have other videos that we put up with other hatfield and mccoy trails
but really get out and visit the website register and read all about it long as you're prepared it
is a great trail system to enjoy no matter what your difficulty level so check it out and enjoy
coming back into town the sun was going down but still
it was all good i believe most of the places do not want you to be on the road after dark
so we wanted to get back and be safe and not have our vehicles on the major
highway that we had to take to get down to belfry kentucky and down at butch's area
now we will have another video coming soon we did take a private tour with butch from
butch's auto body in belfrey he's also runs the trailblazers and that is his uh company
that does tours give him a call i believe he still may be doing some tours i'm unsure of what
the summer will bring for his tours williamson is a great place to stay it's centrally located
it is on the far end of west virginia but it does offer some great amenities airbnbs and apartments
as well as these cabins that butch offers give him a holler and check it out he's well equipped for
rentals and for repairs as well as parts and here it was just extremely convenient the
majority of the group stayed here with adequate parking and resources and a fire pit outside
so we highly recommend it we thank butch again and we look forward to riding with him again
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we thank you for watching and we hope to see you out there on the trail thanks
michael johnson holding my camera