This is from our trip we took 2 weeks ago. My truck is the silver one. The silver one with the snorkel and camper shell to be specific.
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Overlanding, outdoors, offroad anyone?
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Looks like ordinary dirt roads where I live… We use street cars…and the wife drives a Sienna van with no problems. (a flat tire is a PIA tho’ with the ridiculous “spare” mounted beneath a low body…gotta jack the van to get to the spare…then move the jack to get to the tire to be removed.)
Looks like the Seasonal roads up here, Truck and atv 's in spring until fall and then Snowmobile. Theres 100's of miles of them........... if you know where they are.
looks like the ATV trails in MN and WI that we have ridden. No other vehicles allowed on most other than the forest roads in some of the places. You could drive a semi on most of the forest roads they allow pickups and jeeps. Good fun, just use caution.
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I used to do tons of it, both with assorted 4wds and my Rhino. (and once in Lil Foot, my golf cart) But most of the places we went were much more challenging, which was a good part of the fun.
I had an incident years ago on a Rhino trip, scouting for deer. I was about 8-9 miles from my cabin, maybe 2 miles from the nearest fire road, down a narrow, rough canyon. I set up camp, and climbed about 200yds up the side of the canyon to "glass" the surrounding terrain. On the 2nd or 3rd day, I spotted a younger guy walking down the canyon, who saw my camp a little above him. He watched for a while, then went into my camp and started going thru things, checking for keys in the Rhino, and such. All the while, I had been sneaking closer. From about 60yds out, I called to him, and asked what he was doing. He hit the ground, unslung, & racked his bolt action rifle. He had no clue where I was, (because of the canyon echo) and I had him cold with vastly superior firepower. Questioned further, he claimed it was his buddy's camp. When I explained it was my camp, he threatened to shoot me. When I explained that I had him cold with more firepower than he brought, he apologized. I had him stand, unload his rifle, and walk away. I followed him from a distance, got the license # of his truck, and later gave all the info to the sheriff. Never heard another word about it.
Maybe I saved some poor miscreant's soul from a life of crime.
I had an incident years ago on a Rhino trip, scouting for deer. I was about 8-9 miles from my cabin, maybe 2 miles from the nearest fire road, down a narrow, rough canyon. I set up camp, and climbed about 200yds up the side of the canyon to "glass" the surrounding terrain. On the 2nd or 3rd day, I spotted a younger guy walking down the canyon, who saw my camp a little above him. He watched for a while, then went into my camp and started going thru things, checking for keys in the Rhino, and such. All the while, I had been sneaking closer. From about 60yds out, I called to him, and asked what he was doing. He hit the ground, unslung, & racked his bolt action rifle. He had no clue where I was, (because of the canyon echo) and I had him cold with vastly superior firepower. Questioned further, he claimed it was his buddy's camp. When I explained it was my camp, he threatened to shoot me. When I explained that I had him cold with more firepower than he brought, he apologized. I had him stand, unload his rifle, and walk away. I followed him from a distance, got the license # of his truck, and later gave all the info to the sheriff. Never heard another word about it.
Maybe I saved some poor miscreant's soul from a life of crime.
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All the time. But...that's because there are very few paved roads in my part of the country. And very few people and very few vehicles on the secondary roads. I've been taking care of a cabin for many years that's located almost exactly 100 miles from my house. Most times I can drive to the cabin and back and not see another vehicle/person. Dirt roads all the way, of course. Actually, if I leave my house and drive due south it is 135 miles to the nearest pavement. And nothing along the way except for some ranches off in the distance. Blade doesn't make it down this road but every few years so have to watch out for washouts:
On the side of Black Mountain, an extinct volcano:
Just our usual "rocky road"....
A lot more off-camber than what it looks like in this shot!
On the side of Black Mountain, an extinct volcano:
Just our usual "rocky road"....
A lot more off-camber than what it looks like in this shot!
Awesome. Very nice, thanks for sharing.
Yeah pictures/video can be deceiving on the actual terrain. We need to make a trip out your way.
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God, I hate mud!
We went thru a "puddle" like that on top of Mount Graham in southern AZ with the Rhino. We left the next day and went to a self serve car wash in Safford on the way home. Washed about 50lbs of mud off, along with about 500 earthworms. The guy running the wash was not happy.
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Just realized that if I go one more time, I will have to buy a new self inflating air mattress- mine died on the last trip, and I'm getting too old to sleep on the ground without it.
Well, I admit…. she doesn’t drive in THAT kind of stuff! LOL
(I got a bit tired of all the pavement and plain dirt roads in the lead-in of the video …so I skipped-ahead and viewed only portions and didn’t see anything like these pics….sorry if I got hasty, but I dislike long-winded you-tubers who make long introductions that have little to do with the substance of the topic.)
Water that deep is hard on trans and things. We have some low-water crossings that I tell the wife to stay out of if deeper than about 8-10 inches.