...and please no fireworks. Keep it civilized people and pick up beer cans and bottles. Don't ruin it for others.

See ya this wekend. We'll roast a turkey for ya.

Well, it was a good new years and just as it has been before, the guys with the acetylene in the hefty bags were tossing them in the fire keeping us up all night. I can't believe the idiots lighting fireworks IN A PINE FOREST and not setting it on fire. If that wasn't bad enough, some dumb a@$ LOCKED THE RANGER'S TRUCK IN around midnight and then the ranger decided to shoot a couple of clips at the lock fifty feet from my five year old kid!!!!!
 I know this is an atv website but safety doesn't stop at the trails end. We need to be good to the forest and be fire safe people. I can't believe the ranger. He needs bolt cutters, not bullets.
Anyhow, the next day I was flying up the sand hill on my friends raptor 700 and clipped a root and bounced off a tree. I bent the handelbars with my head (seven stiches) blew out my knee, and tore my rotator cuff when I was thrown nearly twenty feet. I spent five hours in the Brooksvill ER (thanks guys) and I'm going into surgery tomorrow. I wish I had ridden the Banshee instead. Oh well. All in all I love this place but the woop de doos are too much. I want to get a small cat and bulldoze the woops on one side of the peremiter roads so I can open up in pure flats. Peace out "yall, Lanky.

I miss the Prarie. it seems that it was starting to get seriously trashed lately and the real estate crowd will chase us further and further up the state. If you think we're trashing nature, look at the bulldozers and real estate folks really messing things up. I miss ripping wide open there.

All I have to say is thank you. I've been going to Croom for a solid ten years now and back then,"you just had to know where you were" remember? It would be getting late and you wanted to go....and you'd be lost. Remember this was before GPS and we would try to find the Hollywood hills track and it was hit or miss. When I finally found that one way to simple black and white xerox map which didn't tell much. Finally a few years back the first sattelite maps came out and with my friends GPS info which he would scribble down at the craziest times, we tried to do what you've done here. I actually looked at croom on google earth and it was hard to tell what was what but finally, it's here for public consumption. I love Croom. Sometimes, I'll stop and marvel at the beauty of the place. I always see something new. With this map I'll find even more. God, I love this place. Thanks bro, well done. Lanky.

BTW I'll be there this week for new years. Let's hope the firework crowd doesn't keep us up all night. The ranger is telling folks that the ATF will be out with night vision goggles so they mean business and will be pulling passes.