The Florida Adventure Trail | Day One - Beginning the F.A.T.
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- Опубліковано 4 лип 2024
- This is day one of our multi-part series showcasing the Florida Adventure Trail also known as the F.A.T. before its release on November 1st, 2022. The Florida Adventure Trail is roughly 1200 miles plotted throughout the state of Florida over the past several years by a gentleman named Jon Birkmire with Sunshine State Adventure Co. The Florida Adventure Trail combines off-road trails, scenic backroads, and drives through several small towns while minimizing the amount of highway and paved roads needed to travel on. In day one we experience just a taste of what the Florida Adventure Trail has in store for us, as we make our way through the Osceola National Forest and Lochloosa Wildlife Management Area and into the Ocala National Forest. We can't wait to share it!
The Florida Adventure Trail will be released for download on November 1st, 2022. Head over to www.floridaadventuretrail.com/ for more information! Use code vikings20 for 20% off the trail!
To see the epic water crossing mentioned, check out the following videos from our friends at OVERLANDeRoos and Baptism Overland:
OVERLANDeRoos: • Exploring The Florida ...
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---------------------------------------------- Chapters
00:00 Introduction
01:12 What is the F.A.T.?
02:13 Starting the adventure
04:37 Entering the Osceola National Forest
05:48 So much water on the trail
09:02 Lunch
11:12 Back on the trail and meeting Gamblers
13:22 Continuing in the rain
15:27 Leaving Osceola National Forest
16:44 Making our way to Lochloosa
18:36 The town of Miconopy
20:13 Lochloosa WMA
23:01 leaving Lochloosa WMA and making our way to the Ocala National Forest
25:13 Finding camp for the night
26:16 End credits - Розваги
Trying to plan on doing the route on our motorcycles sometime early next year and this video is a big help. We love water crossings but some of these would swallow our bikes 😂
Osceola aside, the time you are planning to go should be pretty well dried up and most places along the trail do have bypasses for some of the water crossings. Our trip may not have been the best representation of it since Florida has been so saturated this year. 😅 We hope you have a great time on your trip!
So satisfying, thank you for the effort in making a quality cinematic type adventure trail video. I know it takes alot of work to stop and record but it makes all the difference to get all those angled shots especially the drone! You got my subscription.
Glad you enjoy the way we shoot our videos and thanks for subscribing 😁
"The Water Park" in Osceola can be a tricky beast depending on rainfall. Looks like you guys had a great time! :)
It really is! This was by far one of the most flooded times we have been up in Osceola and that was right before hurricane Ian! 🌀
Great site kids. Being from Fl. I find these videos very exciting . .
Thanks! Glad you’re enjoying the videos 😊
Appreciate all the effort that goes into those rolling shots. Your videos are a visual treat.
Thanks for the compliments on the shots! We are always trying to step up the quality in our content so that means a lot to us! ✌️😃
Great video, so what’s everyone’s tick prevention ??
I am looking forward to the files being released. Thanks for sharing your experience!
Great video! Really enjoyed it. Good drone work, too!
I’m working on getting my 107 license right now for work, but will use it now for camping, too!
It’s crazy how good these drones have gotten. We love using them for storytelling.
Def going to be put on my list to do this trail! Nice drone footage as usual!
Awesome, you won’t be disappointed and we had a great time seeing some new places we hadn’t hit before. Thanks for the compliment as well!
We look forward to seeing y’all tackle it and make your own adventure on it ✌️😃
@@SunshineStateVikings the trail looks fairly easy, would a person have any issues with a small camper trailer? Like a 5x10?
From what we’ve seen the majority will be doable with a trailer. The second episode comes out this Monday and you’ll see some tight Ocala trails in that episode however the creator has made changes since then addressing the tight trails we navigated and the newer version is much more accessible.
@@SunshineStateVikings sweet, thanx for the info
I love your content, you should start sharing these on the various facebook off-road groups so people can start getting a feel for how excellent your videos are and really get those views to over 100k. Thanks again 😊
Thank you so much for your kind words! It turns out a lot of Facebook groups have restrictions and rules against posting your UA-cam content on them. Do you possibly have any groups you’d recommend us try to post our videos in? We too would love to try and share them.
@@SunshineStateVikings I use this strategy for some unrelated projects of mine. i would use small 2 min clips with my UA-cam Name at the bottom of the clip, a preview video if you will. Groups may not allow a youtube link but will allow the video clip . I have always thought your channel had great videos plus you have a great demeanor.
Looks like a corolla, no wonder it got stuck lol
We believe your right, while editing we were thinking it looked more like a Carolla as well, for sure the most lifted Carolla we’ve seen in person. I looked fun to drive though!
I see a lot of familiar places. Most trails off the main roads around Big Gum get really wet and deep. I'm looking forward to riding the FAT!
I was wondering about your setup on the truck? Can u share?
This looks like a blast. What do you think about AWD unibody trucks doing this, like Honda Ridgeline or Ford Maverick (lifted of course)?
You would be fine as long you keep the time of year in mind when planning to run the route. We did 99% of the route in 2 wheel drive!
Believe me when I say that the water gets DEEPER
Oh it definitely does! There certainly has to be a level caution out on our Florida trails, we’ve run into our fair share of small looking holes being endlessly deep! The trails here on the Florida Adventure Trail are typically nice trails during most of the year, we just happened to start running the trail during the wettest part of the year. Happy adventuring ✌️😃
@@SunshineStateVikings I took an old Land Rover through there about six years ago during a night ride and holy sh*t. Nightmare fuel!!
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Nice video, I does seem that seasonal timing will be critical on this trail. Any reports on damage from Ian? Your comments on going with the flow are spot-on for this type of adventure. Planning is a fool's folly when you're off road. Being from western NC and running the trails in the Appalachian Mountains, I appreciate how level the campsites are.
Thanks for compliment and the questions! Seasonal timing is for sure going to be critical. To answer your question about damage from hurricane Ian, the weekend we filmed episodes 1 & 2 are two weeks before Ian came to Florida, if we come across damage from the hurricane it will be seen in episodes 3 and on.
Hi do you think this trail will be ok if you have a 2wd tacoma?
Yes! Just need to do some proper planning around the weather and try to avoid the rainy seasons. Also we recommend to go with a buddy or have a reliable recovery setup. We did the majority of the trail in 2wd.
Why does everyone make the music so damn loud? We don't want to hear music, we want to hear the sounds of you driving on rough roads and through the water with no music.
Thanks for the feedback! Honestly it’s a stylistic choice and we like to mold our footage the feel that the music selected is carrying. we also do understand what your talking about with wanting to hear more of the driving sounds as we have appreciated that in others videos we ourselves watch.
Probably wait for dry season waaayy to much water for my taste, lol.
Definitely best to plan around the weather! Those super saturated trails we faced are totally ok trails during most of the year when we aren’t receiving nightly summer rains.
Yeah, I'll think I'll be waiting till February/March to run those soggy sections.
February/ march would be ideal times to hit the Florida Adventure Trail. Still a little cool and just coming out of hunting season.
Do you think a stock Tacoma TRD off-road could complete the trail?
Will the Florida Adventure Trail be posted on the OnX app?
Sorry but it probably won’t as the creator of the FAT has set up a website for the distribution of the route via a downloadable GPX route.
Here is the official website:
www.floridaadventuretrail.com
@@SunshineStateVikings thanks for the heads up ✌🏻