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Welcome, Tor! What part of San Diego? I suggest three fun things: 1) check out the monthly Rigged for Dirt meeting you'll find in the Rally Point section of this site. Yeah, it's all the way up in Esco, but there are great people showing up and with rigs like yours! 2) If you use...

Lyle, welcome (from Mira Mesa) and WOW, that's a nice rig you have built up there! I suggest three fun things: 1) check out the monthly Rigged for Dirt meeting you'll find in the Rally Point section of this site. Yeah, it's all the way up in Esco, but there are great people showing up and...

Welcome, Jim! You live in a great place, with access to trails and events in three directions (don't drive to Catalina until you get the snorkel kit, Jim). I suggest you check out the Rally Point section of the site here and look for the Rigged for Dirt monthly meetup for your area...

Welcome to OB, Tanner! Well, you've got a great truck, you came from and moved to a great location for a variety of off-road adventures and don't let it interfere with job one: the degree and good grades doing it. Oh, you thought that was going somewhere else. :) Plenty of time to play...

I love those Disco's, but so does every LandRover mechanic, since you will be enriching them often, and thoroughly... based on my experience watching those around me with them. Hey, I use an Isuzu Trooper, so I am coming from a "can't get parts" world, but the rig has at least been mostly...

Our lab rides in a lined-out rear seat, clipped in via a set belt attachment to his collar. At night, he's on the floor of our ground tent, on top of Mexican blankets for ground insulation.

Welcome, Sean! Let me give you some advice for your adventure with your brother: find the local Overland Bound Rally Point social meets and get out there to meet a few people. You'll be stoked, and can get great ideas for gear and tips all in one spot, not to mention getting and giving...

Right on, and Welcome Simon! Time to just get out there!

diabetiktaco , your truck looks great! I especially like the anti-aircraft/missile flare attachment on the front. That's the way to stick it to CHP!!

Right you are, and No, I don't: I have a hitch-mounted shackle. With rubber bumpers, I have been struggling to resolve recovery and jack points, so the hitch shackle provides a solution that isn't available in 1.25" ) and use would exceed the hitch spec on a 1.25", too). Nothing like an...

I swapped a two inch receiver hitch in for my old one and a quarter. This gives me a recovery point on the rear of the Trooper...

So, we wound up with four trucks, and the ascent was beautiful: today's clouds and marine layer broke up and we enjoyed streaming sunshine on the trail. I realized I'd cut it a little close with the 4pm muster/meet and so I kept a 10mph pace up the hill. We made it in time to park, get out...

As "four-wheelin' " goes, it's not much of a trail, but as a fun offroad route up to a spectacular vista, it's EXCELLENT. We had great fun on the Rally Point ride, including a great roll across Santa Ysabel Truck Trail on the way out. Just fantastic. Here are a few photos taken before it got...

FYI, there's a Rally Point for Jan 29th, I just posted, using these trails and "campsite".

I posted about 15 minutes after deciding to go. Haha! If you set one up with more notice, I will certainly consider it!

I think I'll grill burgers up on top, this time. Posted more photos, below. Trail photo understates it a bit.

A fun run up Black Mountain for an incredible sunset, BYO dinner, and a fantastic, after dark 4x4 across the Upper Santa Ysabel Truck Trail! View Rally Point

Sandstone Canyon, Anza Borrego Desert, January 2022

For years in Scouts, we'd use the turkey fryer, with its 30k BTU burner, to heat/boil water for large pasta meals, dishwashing, etc... Those days are over and I will be using my backpacking gear for overlanding. If you are in San Diego and would either like to fry a turkey (in like $100 of...

Today, I revisited Black Mtn, but added a roll across the Upper Santa Ysabel Truck Trail. This is a narrow, occasionally rocky but still level 1 or 2 trail that can be used to create a much longer trek up to the top of Black Mtn. I found a campfire ring up on top, of which I am suspicious, so...