All beautiful places..The Beartooth Mountains are amazing! Minneapolis huh? I haven't seen that rig around. I am near Lake Nokomis.
Where Has Your 80 Taken You?: 80 Series Camping/Overland/Adventure Thread
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The rig shows up at nokomis from time to time during summer to drop the canoe/kayaks but i actually live south in farmington. Not a lot of 80s where we live so i get a lot of "woah nice 4runner, i love those things" from the young crowd.
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Another vid from my death valley trip. This was at the start of the death valley part of my 2 week camping trip (none of that overlanding bs). I started at the southern most part of death valley (visited ibex springs and then took owls hole road to the owlshead mountains to check out an old abandoned ATT microwave repeater).
Just me in the family 80 spending some alone time to ponder life and talk to my gopro
cheers,
george.
Just me in the family 80 spending some alone time to ponder life and talk to my gopro
cheers,
george.
Another vid from my death valley trip. This was at the start of the death valley part of my 2 week camping trip (none of that overlanding bs). I started at the southern most part of death valley (visited ibex springs and then took owls hole road to the owlshead mountains to check out an old abandoned ATT microwave repeater).
Just me in the family 80 spending some alone time to ponder life and talk to my gopro
cheers,
george.
What do you mean by none of the overlanding BS, your video looks to me just like any overlanding trips....
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it's camping!
Even driving to work is overlanding... you drive over the land yes? I just find the term 'overlanding' to describe getting into a vehicle and going camping/exploring silly
cheers,
george.
Even driving to work is overlanding... you drive over the land yes? I just find the term 'overlanding' to describe getting into a vehicle and going camping/exploring silly
cheers,
george.
Somewhere in Utah
Looks like the Green or Colorado river in Canyonlands
well, you ain't rock crawling, your overlanding right? Overlanding is getting into a vehicle and camping/exploring on Subaru trails. =)it's camping!
Even driving to work is overlanding... you drive over the land yes? I just find the term 'overlanding' to describe getting into a vehicle and going camping/exploring silly
cheers,
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Agreed, but there’s a place for the term “overlanding”. Even in this modern era, Cairo to Cape Town can be an overland adventure. London to Sydney by car is probably an overland adventure. But Prudhoe Bay to Ushuaia is just a really long road trip. And going to Utah for a long weekend is just camping. YMMV.I just find the term 'overlanding' to describe getting into a vehicle and going camping/exploring silly
I think whether you're "overlanding" depends on how many sets of MaxTrax you have, and also how big of a fridge you have in the back of the rig.
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^ well, I had none of that with me on this trip. So, clearly I was camping
I did have to pull out a few folk bogged in the death valley silt, one had maxtrax with him, didn't seem to help at all...
cheers,
george.
I did have to pull out a few folk bogged in the death valley silt, one had maxtrax with him, didn't seem to help at all...
cheers,
george.
Rooftop tent = overlanding
If you buy your firewood at the gas station than your overlanding.
It's trendy to hate on that term but it's just so hate-able its hard not to. It feels so holier than thou, like you have some elevated sense of purpose - cant these people just admit they're going camping and plan to drive on trails and dick around in the woods like the rest of us?it's camping!
Even driving to work is overlanding... you drive over the land yes? I just find the term 'overlanding' to describe getting into a vehicle and going camping/exploring silly
cheers,
george.
You can't call yourself an overlander unless you wear a flat billed baseball hat....
Seriously though, if anyone ever calls me an overlander to my face I will slap them like the fresh prince of belair.
Seriously though, if anyone ever calls me an overlander to my face I will slap them like the fresh prince of belair.
looks like you got lots of use out of your tarp/awning. is that the Slumberjack Roadhouse?
Sure is! Happy to support a Colorado-based company and the product is seriously high quality. Mine has been through 50+ mph winds, now I was nosed into the wind with the vehicle and all of my tie downs were VERY VERY stout. I purposefully left it up in that wind fully anticipating having to buy a new one, I just wanted to see what abuse it could handle, but it never failed! It was seriously impressive, there were no tears, no yielded fabric from stretching.
Since then I've sold two of my friends on it and they brought theirs out on the trip in the photos above. You can see My buddy's strapped to his Jeep in one of the photos, and we took my other buddies down to the river for the "spa day". It was cool to see it set up in a different/stand-alone configuration.
It's seriously a freaking amazing deal at $129, Slumberjack SJK Roadhouse Tarp honestly anyone looking for an awning should look no farther.
I'm almost always wheeling somewhere between Las Vegas and Salt Lake City, Tahoe and Moab. Usually using old topographical maps from the 1930's-1950's to find long lost mine sites and forgotten 4x4 trails. I've been scouting and building an updated map of the Arrowhead Trail from San Bernardino to Salt Lake City over it's original overland route. Much of it is paved over but there are still some decent stretches that are 4x4 trails today. Found some cool things last weekend while scouting the section of the Arrowhead from Nellis AFB north to St. Thomas, NV.
