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Cinematography is amazing. Went to the place where some of that was filmed.. Bozeman, MT if my memory serves me correctly.. Better than the movie.
It's Missoula, MT area. A group of friends have fished there almost every summer since college. We missed this year. Here's a video from when we went in 2014 on the river where some of it was filmed (Bitterroot River).
As you can expect, most of the old school locals freaking hate the movie. Missoula doubled in size in the decade following movie and a bunch of rich peckerwoods decked out in Orvis s*** who can't cast a fly rod to save their lives started showing up, building houses, buying land and crowding the rivers... Huey Lewis has a gigantic ranch right by the river that we fish on the most.
It would be a great area for overlanding/VDO expedition. In fact, the owner of the house where we used to stay (My friend's uncle) had a 1974 FJ40.... We could cruise around in and go up the backcountry area for some hiking and fishing. It was cool. He sold it.
PS: It just occurred to me that everyone in this video is a LC owner: My 60, an 80 and 2 100s.
As you can expect, most of the old school locals freaking hate the movie. Missoula doubled in size in the decade following movie and a bunch of rich peckerwoods decked out in Orvis s*** who can't cast a fly rod to save their lives started showing up, building houses, buying land and crowding the rivers... Huey Lewis has a gigantic ranch right by the river that we fish on the most.
It would be a great area for overlanding/VDO expedition. In fact, the owner of the house where we used to stay (My friend's uncle) had a 1974 FJ40.... We could cruise around in and go up the backcountry area for some hiking and fishing. It was cool. He sold it.
PS: It just occurred to me that everyone in this video is a LC owner: My 60, an 80 and 2 100s.
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Would love to start a yearly overland 'truck camping trip to somewhere cool' tradition...places like this just reinforce that for me.
CO was great for the past 3 years, but it's time to move to something different. Like the idea of Big Bend this winter, and gonna look at Moab/Kokopelli in the spring.
CO was great for the past 3 years, but it's time to move to something different. Like the idea of Big Bend this winter, and gonna look at Moab/Kokopelli in the spring.
Yeah, we can take this to chat thread, but I need to either dump 10 grand into my 60 or get a 100. I still love to fish, but truck camping is something I'd like to do more of. You guys have opened my eyes to the fact that there is a lot to see and do on land where the pavement ends. High priority is getting the right rig for some distance trips (Nolen, I know how you feel about the pilot; I'm working on it)
My cousin does all the fishing on screen in that movie. His dad was the technical expert for it as well.
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60s great truck but not for long distances unless you do a Cameron upgrade. Buy a built 100 and never look back. It is life changing.
Hopefully by admitting this in the Movies thread it can't be used against me in court, but Bomar has solid advice.
95% of the time the 100 would be the perfect truck.
There are a few places I've either been or would like to go where the 100 is a little on the big side to take, but those trails delve into the rockcrawling side of "Overlanding". (Rubicon, Parts of Utah, Dusy). Best of both worlds, but still only 5% of what's out there.
The 80 is sweet platform, but once you've taken a sip of the V8, the inline six just won't cut it. It was my LS430's V8 that did it for me, and led me to the Vortec. Similar motor I'm guessing to the 100. Plus 80s interiors just seem cramped to me.
I'm in too deep with my truck, even before the motor swap, to switch platforms, and I've got another trick up my sleeve that I can hopefully reveal soon that will put me in even deeper, but if I was to start over, the 100s look mighty appealing.
95% of the time the 100 would be the perfect truck.
There are a few places I've either been or would like to go where the 100 is a little on the big side to take, but those trails delve into the rockcrawling side of "Overlanding". (Rubicon, Parts of Utah, Dusy). Best of both worlds, but still only 5% of what's out there.
The 80 is sweet platform, but once you've taken a sip of the V8, the inline six just won't cut it. It was my LS430's V8 that did it for me, and led me to the Vortec. Similar motor I'm guessing to the 100. Plus 80s interiors just seem cramped to me.
I'm in too deep with my truck, even before the motor swap, to switch platforms, and I've got another trick up my sleeve that I can hopefully reveal soon that will put me in even deeper, but if I was to start over, the 100s look mighty appealing.
Creepin' some dudes home in Mountain Home.
I am down also but I don't have excess time on my hands. Hell they put 500k trout within 5 miles of us and I never made it out last year.
I am down also but I don't have excess time on my hands. Hell they put 500k trout within 5 miles of us and I never made it out last year.
This won ad of the year in the Netherlands
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