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6-23-26 Lake city - Sorta up Cinnamon Pass. 46 miles.
Got about 23 miles from Lake City and the TLC started overheating again.
Figured out why. The PO screwed up the rad neck and that kept the cap from sealing well. So it had been slowly getting worse the entire trip. Came back down and got a Cabin in the area while the TLC owner got a new rad and replaced it.

 

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6-24-26 Replace rad day. 110 miles to Gunnison and back.
No pics.
6-25-26 Lake City to Ouray 137 miles.

 

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6-26-26 Ouray - Montrose. 42 miles.
Rimrocker (Montrose to Moab) - Buckeye Reservoir camp halfway. 160 miles total for the Rimrocker.

 

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6-27-26 Continue Rimrocker to Moab. Finish the 160 miles of off road.
Apparently no one got pics of camp at Sand Flats.

 

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6-27/30-26 Moab Fins and Things (10 miles), Canyonlands NP, Arches NP, Moab Giants. (150 miles)
A lot of the trail crawling is video.
All the fires.... Cottonwood fire was roaring, The part of the Rimrocker we did the day before just caught, The Goldmine Fire by Ouray started.

Good shot of the start of the smoke from the Cottonwood fire from Canyonlands.

 

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6-29-26 More Moab

 

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6-30-26 The big turn in our itinerary. Heat and fires made us go to the PNW instead of continue through the southwest.
Moab - Dinosaur NM (Jensen, UT) - Afton, WY 480 miles.
No Pics

7-01-26
Afton- Grand Teton NP - Yellowstone NP - Pocatello, ID. 360 miles.
Again no pics or any interesting video So I added stuff from my trip in the area last year.

 

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7-02-26 Pocatello, ID - Hines, OR. 450 miles.
Pics are from Twin Falls.

 

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7-03-26 Hines, OR - Redwood NP - Up the 101 to around Coos Bay, OR. 520 miles.

7-04-26 Continue to Westport, WA. 320 miles.
My front driver wheel bearing starts going.
Helped out a dude broken down on who just bought a T3 Westfalia who needed a compressor to pump up his spare. Road karma definitely helped the next day.

7-05-26 Westport to Elma, WA. 45 miles.
Made it about 23 miles to Aberdeen then "something" grabbed in the wheel.
The outer bearing cage had disintegrated and 3 of the rollers had tumbled in the hub.
Drove the thing the last 22 miles gently to a camp we found.
One of the nicest Hipcamps we discovered on the trip.
Fixed that afternoon/evening, found all the parts for 2 fronts incase another one went. 30 miles away in Lacey.

 

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7-06-26 Hoh Rainforest Visitor Center Olympic NP, Ruby Beach and back to that camp. 260 miles.

 

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7-07-26 Elma - Mt Rainer NP - Marshall, WA. 415 miles.
The TLCs alternator went going down Rainer.
Found a part and changed that night at camp.

 

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7-08-26 Marshall, WA - Wineglass/Livingston, MT. 435 miles.
Hit a fun spot of Hail/sleet on the way.
Found an amazing Hipcamp that night. Because of rain and wind the owner let us set up in the barn/arena. The cat was super friendly, and so much so that he had an airtag on his color, because he had stowed away in someone's vehicle before and she had to go like 6 hours away to go get him.
He actually slept in my swag with me, and did try to hide in my stuff as we left. XD

 

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7-09-26 Wineglass/Livingston, MT - Willard, MT. 350 miles.
No Pics.

7-10-26 Willard, MT - Theodore Roosevelt NP - Devils Tower NM - Sage Creek Campground again in Badlands NP. 490 miles.