WANTED?????? ON my cruise they pulled a women off ship ! ( that my wife be freinded.) She started Yacking about all the Politicians she knew in Seatle! Never saw her again, so me thinks the Terra Firma be better dan da Seas. Unda da Sea, Unda Sea, Unda da Sea, Yuu Sea Nemo's .
Man I’d have to really make an effort if you guys ever drive through, my folks drove to the Arctic Circle with my dad‘s siblings a few years ago…it’s on my bucket list too.
If you want to test your metal, literally, every other year one of the Rocky Mountain Land Cruiser club guys organizes a winter northern run from Calgary north though Yellowknife and beyond - gotta be able to start at minus 30 or so (and it doesn't matter if you read Celsius or Fahrenheit).
For a warmer summer run, with Calgary as a start, it's two long days to Whitehorse (21-23hrs), but you feel like you hit a different part of the world once you get to Muncho Lake, from there, you are in the mountains, driving past long (cold) lakes, wildlife abounds, including a herd of bison that hang out around the highway near the Yukon BC border. Once in Whitehorse, you have options to head south to Skagway at the top of the Lynn Canal fjord (about 2 hours away), Kluane National park, 3 hours west and on the way to Haines AK (5 hours), Valdez, Anchorage, Kenai peninsula, Denali Mountain (Anchorage is 11-13 hours) or Dawson City Yukon, about 6.5 hours - or even Tuktoyaktuk up the Dempster Highway (20 hrs from WH). Best time of year is June/July, long days, warmer, pre-blackfly season.
Well Yukon and I found out how stupid shipping is to the north, more than what he could buy one up there for. So, if anyone else in the lower 48 could use it, let me know.
I thought the PP was against radios? I like them and would be great to use when on the trail.
Ron this is all you need to know about the Baufeng radios. You don’t have to program them although that may be easier once you figure out the hard part!
BaoFeng UV-5R dual band
Triband = GMRS/FRS/HAM
VFO/MR orange button
Frequency Mode / Channel Mode
VFO allows you to manually enter the frequency
A/B blue button
Switches upper to lower frequencies in the two little me display. You can listen to both but only transmit on the one selected as indicated with the triangle.
Lock Key w/ # and blue key picture
Press and hold to lock keypad and is shown in upper right display by battery indicator
Low Power vs High Power
Tap the # button. Will see a L in the display on the left indicating Low power mode for use when close. L = 1 watt and High = 4 watts. Battery will last longer on L
I'm glad that's all I need to know. At most of the parties we like to at the least have a radio up front and the tail gunner. It's easier to poke fun at someone who's having trouble on the trails.
I keep the conversion chart in a Notes page on my iPhone so I can look up what is needed. That way if someone has a FRMS only radio and says they are on channel 15 I look up my chart and enter 462,550 in my radio. Then I press the lock button so I don’t accidentally change the channel.
man, all of those channels are set to the frequencies surveyors use on our GPS bases. Probably why there is always so much radio noise when we try to work.
We have a the space, all are welcome. Sometimes see the odd LC up the Alaska highway, often Europeans in 70 series, no pigs yet that I have seen to date. We could plan an Alaskan Swine Soiree... think of the t-shirts
! ( that my wife be freinded.) She started Yacking about all the Politicians she knew in Seatle! Never saw her again, so me thinks the Terra Firma be better dan da Seas
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. Get rid of dat Flip Rotary phone 
