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 By: Bentmtn | Posted By: Bentmtn - (Send PM) Member Since: 9/11/2020 Location: SW VA/Frisco Total Posts: 3303 Experience:  Date Posted: 6/23/2024 8:14 PM |  |
Hubby and I drove to Charlotte to visit our son this weekend and took rt 221 over Bent MTN through Floyd Co and Carroll County and hit Fancy Gap via interstate 77. Lots of winding roads and great farm stands! The views were out of this world. That's some beautiful country through there. Pics of some of it... Fancy Gap going down on 77
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By: Bentmtn | Posted By: Bentmtn - (Send PM) Member Since: 9/11/2020 Location: SW VA/Frisco Total Posts: 3303 Experience: Date Posted: 6/23/2024 8:17 PM | |
Coming back today...Bent MTN Road....at this hairy S turn right before you take a right off of this road to drive up to our home, was a terrible wreck last year where someone drove through the barrier and landed up in the top of our property and died. So sad. The first responders spent hours on the backside of our property. This road is something else.
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By: Bentmtn | Posted By: Bentmtn - (Send PM) Member Since: 9/11/2020 Location: SW VA/Frisco Total Posts: 3303 Experience: Date Posted: 6/23/2024 8:19 PM | |
A partial view of the Blue Ridge Mtns before entering the S curves towards our home
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By: Bentmtn | Posted By: Bentmtn - (Send PM) Member Since: 9/11/2020 Location: SW VA/Frisco Total Posts: 3303 Experience: Date Posted: 6/23/2024 8:26 PM | |
Big Walker Mountain through there is heavenly and huge. Took us forever to get home today as there were two really bad wrecks on Big Walker and one was a truck totally turned over on its side. It always happens up there. Just hoping everyone was okay. The truck escape ramps are something else in case the brakes fail on trucks it is so bad and steep. I was holding my breath. Bella our dog was snoring in the back seat as usual. | ||
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 By: Greg MD | Posted By: Greg MD - (Send PM) Member Since: 3/10/2014 Location: Swamp Total Posts: 3785 Experience: Date Posted: 6/24/2024 6:57 AM | |
Love the mountain views. | ||
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 By: LollyGirl | Posted By: LollyGirl - (Send PM) Member Since: 11/7/2022 Location: Total Posts: 731 Experience:  Date Posted: 6/24/2024 8:22 AM | |
Breathtaking! Must be interesting driving those roads in the winter. | ||
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By: Bentmtn | Posted By: Bentmtn - (Send PM) Member Since: 9/11/2020 Location: SW VA/Frisco Total Posts: 3303 Experience: Date Posted: 6/24/2024 9:05 AM | |
The views are great! The county is really good about getting that road cleared in bad weather. But, I'm not going to drive on it!!! It's bad enough without snow. | ||
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 By: Stumpy | Posted By: Stumpy - (Send PM) Member Since: 3/8/2005 Location: Total Posts: 553 Experience: Date Posted: 6/24/2024 10:18 AM | |
Hubby and I drove to Charlotte to visit our son this weekend and took rt 221 over Bent MTN through Floyd Co and Carroll County and hit Fancy Gap via interstate 77. Lots of winding roads and great farm stands! The views were out of this world. That's some beautiful country through there. If it's clear enough you can see Pilot Mtn, NC from up there. | ||
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By: LollyGirl | Posted By: LollyGirl - (Send PM) Member Since: 11/7/2022 Location: Total Posts: 731 Experience: Date Posted: 6/24/2024 11:00 AM | |
Hubby and I visited Pilot Mntn 2 years ago. It was just gorgeous! Of course some folks called it Mount Pilot. | ||
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By: wayne | Posted By: wayne - (Send PM) Member Since: 1/16/2009 Location: kdh Total Posts: 686 Experience: Date Posted: 6/24/2024 12:34 PM | |
Whenever I hear of Big Walker, I remember talking to a now retired executive from General Motors in Michigan. He distinctly remembered exiting the BW tunnel and seeing the sign " Welcome to Wild, Wonderful West Virginia". Apparently, he then fell asleep and when he awakened, he was at the 22-mile marker. I guess he must have been in one of the self-driving prototypes. Not sure, bur scary. That's a white-knuckle drive, too. Yes, Fancy Gap is beautiful ad brutally windy in the winter. | ||
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By: Fergie | Posted By: Fergie - (Send PM) Member Since: 11/8/2022 Location: Total Posts: 36 Experience: Date Posted: 6/25/2024 9:09 PM | |
Hubby and I visited Pilot Mntn 2 years ago.i I was in my 2nd year as a USNDC Lt. in1976 at Camp LeJeune. . One of the docs from WVa was getting married so several of us drove up I 77 to the wedding. We rounded a turn heading north and one of the other docs said, damn that must be nipple mountain. | ||
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 By: Dhart | Posted By: Dhart - (Send PM) Member Since: 1/29/2014 Location: SE Ohio (on the Ohio River) Total Posts: 1661 Experience: Date Posted: 6/25/2024 10:11 PM | |
I see some rentals up there; most of them have a decent price. It would be interesting to see that view for more than a few minutes driving through. Hey, I'm looking! | ||
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