This muddy swamp was epic! / Overlanding South Carolina in the Francis Marion National Forest

[@JessicaJBrodie]

I can only imagine all the history this area has seen! Great video ❤️❤️

[@SimplyMustGo]

It was so much fun. I just wish you could have been there.

[@Wagoneerland]

Glad I found your videos. We live in the upstate and me and my buddy are building 2 mid 80s grand wagoneers just for lite dirt roads.

[@Tail_Dragger]

Thanks for the shout out! #giveahootdontpollute 🤨

[@SimplyMustGo]

The Beaver has landed!

[@GeefromBC]

Great way to end the trip with that mud puddle. Still baffles me with trash being left behind. Thanks for leaving it better than you found it Matt.

[@SimplyMustGo]

Thanks! Yeah it was a great ending to the trip for sure!

[@mattnewcity]

Our whole family enjoys the SCAR series! It's cool that you've made it entertaining but kid friendly. We just bought a 2013 JK and your adventures inspired us to take our first trip in the Jeep out to explore Francis Marion. We live down here but hadn't been to Hampton Plantation yet, really cool place! Keep up the great work and we'll be tuning in. Peace

[@SimplyMustGo]

Hey! Thank you so much! I really appreciate it and I’m so excited you’re inspired to go check it out! I think you’ll have a blast! If you need to know where anything is let me know!

[@mattnewcity]

@@SimplyMustGo Thanks! We actually took our trip yesterday and had a great time.

[@williamklauber8970]

On Dec 12th the second split of duck season opened up. That's where all the gunshots come from along the river. Great stuff, Matt!!

[@SimplyMustGo]

That would be it. We also saw a ton of hunters waiting on the edge of the woods with dogs, was that also for ducks?

[@OverlandPNW]

Nice job wheeling with the trail through those mud bogs! Awesome video!

[@SimplyMustGo]

Thanks!!!! 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@benharmon2817]

Love it! Glad y’all enjoyed your stay. If you’d like another wheeling companion next time you’re down, lemme know!

[@SimplyMustGo]

Will do!!

[@DuyanFarms]

Nice video. Tons of great trails out there. There were lots of Turkeys on the trail up above Camden when I went through. Beautiful. Cheers and God Bless.

[@SimplyMustGo]

Thank you! Yeah the sectional above Camden is still one I need to do. I’m looking forward to it. Have a great day! 🙏🏻

[@jvida405]

another awesome video. the mini trailer survived too. lol

[@SimplyMustGo]

Thank you! Yeah the trailer has been great!

[@Venture2Roam]

Great cinematography, great story telling...beautiful video Matt.

[@SimplyMustGo]

Thank you!

[@FabbedFun]

The HD video, the camera angles, the drone shots, the professional narration.... you're doing a fantastic job! Keep up the good work and enjoy the adventures!

[@SimplyMustGo]

Thank you so much!! I really appreciate it!

[@ButchFagan]

I had no idea all these trails existed in SC. Like how you sprinkled the drone shots in! Mavic mini? Have you thought about putting a windshield mount in your jeep for your camera for those times when you talk to the camera?

[@SimplyMustGo]

Thanks, Yes, the drone was a DJI Mavic Mini 2 (I still use my 1 also but this was the 2) I have a windshield (or rather a dash mount) for my GoPro, but I've been actually using my Canon 6Dm2 for the vlogging bits and I can't mount that to the windshield. I'm working on another option for a in car talking camera that I think will be really good when I get it all together.

[@matt_queso]

Just watched the entire SCAR series and your "stock jeep on hurricane creek" video. You've earned a subscribe, great vids.

[@SimplyMustGo]

Thank you so much! I really appreciate it! (Actually on another section of the SCAR right now. So a new video should be coming soon!

[@donnabrook1602]

That grave site is located on Hwy 6 out in Cross SC

[@nickallport1874]

That first trail you dead ended at was on private property. There are no permanent deer stands like that in the FMNF.

[@SimplyMustGo]

Good to know.

[@richiefossati714]

Such great videos! Keep up the great work!

[@SimplyMustGo]

Thank you so much!!

[@donnabrook1602]

Put it 4H and go. I know those woods grew up in those woods

[@White-Head]

Yall keep an eye open for Wee Tee State forest to open to camping. Ive hunted that 14,000 acres all my lifeit is awesome. Couple of lakes plenty of mud

[@SimplyMustGo]

Thanks for the tip!!

[@SCWanderer]

I'm waiting for the next instalment It's been a month. jeesh! 🙂Ya, your editing and narration is top notch. Can I assume you watch Brad at TrailRecon? Another Hollywood quality editor is Kevin at Lifestyle Overland. These SCAR videos compare quite nicely. When you head up to Jocassee, stop by Simpsonville and pick me up! Ha ha

[@SimplyMustGo]

Yeah. I’m waiting too! Haha. Hoping to finish up the Lake Jocassee area soon!

[@dkhallal]

So you live in Columbia? I’m in Sumter! I have a friend that built a great overland trailer during Covid. Might have to see if he wants to take his Bronco and trailer on a trip. Never heard of the SCAR before, thanks for sharing, looked amazing. Will check the other parts out.

[@SimplyMustGo]

Yeah you’ll love it. My video coming out Sunday is another Section of the scar that includes the Lake Jocassee area.

[@dkhallal]

@@SimplyMustGo I love Jocasse. Wife and I camped at Devils fork a few times and been to several of the falls. Look forward to the episode.

[@BeavBrodie1]

Well done! Where are we going next?

[@SimplyMustGo]

That depends on when you’re free!

[@harvmac69]

Where you following the SCAR on the way back to Columbia? I would love to find those dirt roads!

[@SimplyMustGo]

Yes! It was the scar from Francis Marion back to around Sumter

[@robeveridge8329]

The patriot was Benjamin Martin no francis marion. Though colnel taking tonight was the guy the British brought over to fight Francis marion.

[@SimplyMustGo]

Man! You’re right. I thought for sure… I guess growing up here everyone always talked about the Patriot and the swamp fox and how that’s who it was based on and it just stuck as true. I feel a little like it’s a Mandela effect. 🤯

[@robeveridge8329]

@@SimplyMustGo I'm also from here. Patriot is one of my favorite movies

[@matthewphansen2]

Is there a place that has your route mapped out?

[@rakovsky3901]

The Francis Marion Forest supposedly has Venus Flytraps. It's a giant forest though and it would be nice to know where in the park they are. They might be in a part of the park that you would have to Bushwhack to instead of by a trail.

[@SimplyMustGo]

That’s awesome. I’ve never seen any there, but I admittedly haven’t been looking either.

[@rakovsky3901]

​@@SimplyMustGo That Forest is huge. One person who runs a nursery told me that they do 4Wheeling along the swathes cut through the forest by the Power Lines and see Venus Fly Traps along those swathes. She wrote, "We do a lot of 4 wheeling and if we go off trail there is a ton along the power line routes." It makes sense that they would be along power line routes because they like to live in open areas. It seems that the mid summer might be the best time to go because of how wet and muddy that area could be in March and April.

[@rakovsky3901]

I made a list of all the places between Charleston and Wilmington that I could find with V. Flytraps. I posted it on Reddit under the title "What is the best place to look at Venus Fly Traps in nature?" Francis Marion Forest is the closest spot to Charleston out of the list.

[@TheIronRide]

If McDonalds is a McMuffin yours is a MattMuffin. A McMatt would mean your from McDonald's. 🤔🤣 just my 2 cents. 🤠 Loving this series man. Your Narration is gold.

[@SimplyMustGo]

Haha. That’s probably true. Any name suggestions? Thanks for watching and the kind words! I really appreciate it! 🙏🏻

[@TheIronRide]

@@SimplyMustGo it's a MattMuffin 😁

[@White-Head]

So duck season orDeer season lol

[@rh-bd6wv]

Sorry, about the trash. I am a Carolinian and can attest to the lack of respect we have for the land and each other.

[@SimplyMustGo]

Yeah. Me too. It’s sad because it’s usually not the “off-road” community. It’s usually just locals who dump their trash, which is really sad. It’s the locals that should care the most.

[@Mydailydadlife]

I was just talking to a friend about this. We can't go camping close by or a short trip because the trashy people can and will do the same things. It seems the further west you go, to more remote places that is the better it gets because the trashy people don't want to spend time driving all day to get there. You won't see cabins preserved with unlocked doors and stacks of flyers in this area from back in the day. But you see it in the badlands of Arizona. It's quality of people.

[@blueduster74]

Have learned in our year here the weather people are wrong 90% of the time.

[@SimplyMustGo]

I think saying they are right 10% of the time is generous.

[@donnabrook1602]

Story goes when Francis Marion lead the red coats in and some back out they called it hell of a hole. So it's Called Hell Hole. Plus moonshiners brewed moonshine out there so it also made it difficult for people to get to the stilles

[@SimplyMustGo]

Nice! I didn’t know that story.

[@donnabrook1602]

​@SimplyMustGo every yr around May we hold a festival out in Jamestown they did have a small building there that displayed moonshine stille and tells some history about it. From my grandma's stories men who worked the paper mill and steel mill in Georgetown use to catch the train to work, sometimes she catch to take my grandpa his lunch

[@donnabrook1602]

I have heard people tell me they have seen cannons out in them woods but I have yet come across any lol

[@SimplyMustGo]

@@donnabrook1602 That would be awesome!

[@SimplyMustGo]

Man I love hearing old stories like that

[@Smashy360]

Taking a trailer through the Francis Marion is not the best idea. Mostly mud and brush with lots of dead end trails.

[@blueduster74]

Come on people, don’t trash the sites.

[@SimplyMustGo]

I know. I don’t understand how people can do that.

[@thehuskyhiker7243]

Absolutely comical what you asphalt cowboys call a Mudholes smdh yall might better stay on the paved roads those pavement princesss wouldn’t even make the garden on lower two back in the day of telico

[@thehuskyhiker7243]

Really gross take his damn man card