Where Has Your 80 Taken You?: 80 Series Camping/Overland/Adventure Thread (1 Viewer)

[COYS]

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.
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[vegas]

I've been thinking of doing an overland loop around the great basin. Roughly head NW up the Mojave road and connect to the Nevada overland trail that goes all the way up to Jarbidge and the Idaho border. But instead of going all the way to Idaho, you head east along the Pony Express trail and then down past Wheeler Peak, through Beaver Dam and then down the Arrowhead Trail. Start and end at Peggy Sue's Diner on the I-15 just outside of Barstow, CA. It hits all of the historical routes around the great basin and with only a short side trip to the very northeast corner of NV you have the opportunity to complete the Nevada trout slam (catch one of every native trout in NV).

 

[vegas]

BTW, if you don't like getting into a traffic jam while on popular 4x4 trails like me, I found that the Automobile Blue Book, Volume 4 (all areas west of the Mississippi River) published in 1924 is a great resource for finding long forgotten overland routes and camp sites. It is a motorist guide documenting overland routes all over the western US way before there were hardly any paved roads let alone highways. The Arrowhead Trail is documented extensively. So is the Mojave Road. But so are lots of interesting routes through the eastern sierras, great basin ranges, and all over CO, UT, ID, NV, and CA. This book describes with mileages and landmarks how to get from just about every point A to every other point B in the western US circa 1924. I've found some pretty epic trails and campsites waaaaaaaay off today's maps. I've found quite a few campsites that were last used in the 1950's based on the beer can tabs around the long disused fire ring. I've also gotten into some seriously sketchy trails too so be careful out there while having fun.

 

[samtoddlee]

have been using mine for over 4 yrs now and it is holding up well.
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hey bud where was this last pic taken? looks like a stopover up around Vermillion Cliffs NM in Northern Arizona.

 

[77CJ5]

 

[leonard_nemoy]

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The way things are going in America I am afraid we will be seeing those on US streets one day soon.

 

[SaturnAscends]

The way things are going in America I am afraid we will be seeing those on US streets one day soon.

Maybe they’ll come look for WMDs

 

[77CJ5]

 

[Bludozer]

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why do those sandspec wheels and tires have to look so good

 

[mudgudgeon]

London to Sydney by car is probably an overland adventure.

Not unless there's a really loooooooong drought!

 

[mudgudgeon]

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...

Did you suggest he take the maxtracks off the roof

 

[77CJ5]

Yemen 80 Series gathering:

 

[george_tlc]

Did you suggest he take the maxtracks off the roof

Well, for giggles:

The first time I pulled him out he said there was a set in the vehicle but it was his brothers and he could figure out how to unbolt them. The second time it was his brother (long story) and he did have them in use, but certainly didn't help get him out - took two 80's to winch him out that time. The third extraction was a family that had got their 'rental' 4runner well and truly stuck by choosing the well used, but very pulverized path.

First extraction (after I lent him a shovel to do a little bit of clearing - he was cover head to toe in dust from having spent an hour digging by hand before walking to where I was camped to ask for help....):

Extracting the brother with the help of another 80 (bumped into a socal cruiser group):



Extracting the 4runner (1st minute and last minute, lots of video of just the gopro facing forward, so no excitement ):

 

[PNWTreeOctopus]

The great spring break compromise of 2022

I couldn't make it to UT this year, had to stay within a (very long) day of home since pops is on Hospice, but we found adventure anyway.
From the wilds of Oregon..

Dont worry I stayed on the open route.
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6000' hot tent camp.

Poser in the dunes. Heavy old 80 filled with kids, dogs and gear climbed up and over everything that wasn't too scary for the family.

 

[77CJ5]

 

[SaturnAscends]

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Nice, I like a good roughed-up LC. From the wheels that must be a 91-92?

 

[davidp14]

Not pictured is the fzj that the tent is attached to but you get the idea

 

[77CJ5]

 

[baldilocks]

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A perfect example of performance VS beauty and dreams vs real world wide success.

 

[alia176]

A random but cool place in UT

Joint trail hike through couple of slot canyons

Horsehoof campground - Canyonlands National Park, Needles district

Video - climbing out of Bobby's hole with a fresh new boulder that appeared in the last few weeks after a rock slide.

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