I'm surprised they didn't grenade the front diff on the 100 climbing that ledge. Those were the classic conditions for front diff implosion. Maybe it already had an ARB in it.
After a moment of all the posing, dramatic music and corny voice over I had to fast forward through that video.... I caught the claims of traveling through (insert a few Alaska "places") but that was it.
Another road trip up the highway.
Most of our roads are fairly well charted. They should be able to get some cool photo ops with no need to actually get into the back country.
Expedition Overland is a reality based television series that will follow six overlander's and their outfitted vehicles through the northern Yukon territories, Alaska, and down the western coast of Canada. All this while using the most remote routes possible. The desire for exploration and adventure is at the heart of this series. The show will feature the character's adventures and mishaps, as well as, personal insights into their struggles, successes, and experiences. This adventure is about the journey, not the destination.
By definition "reality based TV" doesn't have to have anything to do with reality right?
Now the other video makes sense. The fact that they choose CB for Comm tells you a lot. That's gonna suck if they have to split up for any reason, they might as well have picked Dixi Cups and string for com. Of course having a sponsor paying for the radios may have influenced their decision.
Their CBs will be be useful for private comma while in a close convoy. Because NO ONE up here uses CBs anymore .
I still have them along with 2meter radios in a couple of my rigs. But I also have 300 watt linear amps installed. I don't think I have talked to anyone on CB since the 2006 ACT.
I cringe to think of what they are gonna call "adventure", "remote" and "mishap"
BTW, you really can not travel "down the coast" of Western Canada except by boat.
Man those guys aren’t fooling around, that’s some serious business! Is it just me, or does it remind anyone else of a SNL parody? I kept waiting for the laugh track to kick in. And that melodramatic music… I have done the White Rim and it just didn’t seem as exciting or intense… I think I need to get a sound track like that to play on the trail. Some great filmography though I’ll give them that. Beautiful!
Maybe they are getting on the ferry in Bellingham headed for Alaska? That would take them up the west coast of Canada.
There are routs through BC off hwy but I would not call them overly technical. Mostly gravel forestry roads, I could send them down a few interesting tracks but even then its nothing crazy. .
It kind of sounds like a promo video trying to drum up sponsorships. Funny thousands of people in there late 50-80's do the same trips with out sponsors and hauling there trailers and 5th wheels every year.
That's almost as bad as watching Jonathan Ward's youtube video of the Icon CJ3B. Where he uses every catch phrase in the book in an effort to justify it.
After a moment of all the posing, dramatic music and corny voice over I had to fast forward through that video.... I caught the claims of traveling through (insert a few Alaska "places") but that was it.
Another road trip up the highway.
Most of our roads are fairly well charted. They should be able to get some cool photo ops with no need to actually get into the back country.
99% of what people in NA are doing and calling "expos" in internet forums could be done in a Subaru Wagon. So... an IFS front end should not be a handicap for many.
In reality, for long distance travel even in remote and less developed areas, an IFS is not an automatic deal breaker. The rig just has to be matched to the conditions and uses it will be subjected to.
Thats what I have thought was the general consensus. The whole uncharted thing made me laugh a little bit. Then looking at their trucks and thinking back to pictures of the ACT from past years that I have seen makes me think that they will be fire roading it pretty much the entire way. All I could think about was how they would not make it very far at all if they did what Ive seen of true outback Alaska.
Wheeled rigs really never see most of Alaska. The places you *can* access with wheeled rigs is greater than most realize though. Well. most up here who realize the reality about the rest of it that is.
unless they are more poorly prepared than I would expect, the biggest disadvantage those rigs would be under would be tire size and tread type. That and the fact that without local knowledge they are not going anywhere that can even pretend to be "remote and uncharted". ESPECIALLY with a television production crew. My (admittedly not extensive) experience with TV producers and directors brought home to me that the reality they exist in just barely intersects mine and 10 feet off the pavement with the right camera angle is all the "remote and uncharted" that they really need.
yup.