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Having done it some 45 years ago, Stop early, stop often.

I made my mount so I can fold it down and use the boards as a table on the side of my Rover. https://poppageno.blogspot.com/2021/08/land-rover-recovery-boards-mounttable.html

Hi Tim, I don't know what mounting features there are for your Jeep. I made a custom roof rack for my 1960 Land Rover out of Super Strut and for the clamps I used ones from Gamviti ; Rain Gutter Towers — Gamiviti They also make roof channel towers; Roof Channel Towers — Gamiviti. I have no...

I keep a bear barrel with 3 days of food in case a bear gets my daily food. Usually I camp in the desert and the rodents are a bigger problem. When bikepacking I used a bear hang, didn't cook near where we slept or hung the food. Remember things like lip balm, deodorant smell mighty tasty to...

I was camping in Nevada and stopped at a spring the pioneers used crossing the Nation. Left the door open as I took a few min to look around. Then continued to my next destination and set up camp being sure to keep the doors shut. Got up the next morning to find the bag of trail mix on the front...

yeah, but by then you were at 6-7000 feet. Drive 2.5 hrs west and camp. Bottom line; Summer camping is doable, IF, you can cool down either naturally or artificially.

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I had an 88" Land Rover, when I bought it it had Firestone Destination AT's on it. It really looks like a street tyre(5.5" x 16 rims). While I owned the Rover I took it through mud in the Coastal Mtns and a couple trips to the Nevada Desert and Death Valley. Never had an issue with flats or...

Thanks Kyle! Good on ya!

MONTEREY COUNTY, Calif. — Los Padres National Forest officials announced that the first phase of repairs to Nacimiento-Fergusson Road on the Monterey Ranger District was completed. The next phase will see the removal of hazardous trees along the road and the installation of new signs while the...

I went and camped at Afton, 13 Feb, 2020, no bugs! Wind but no bugs. Your bites sound like what horse flies do to me. I've been bit a few times up in the Black Rock Desert, Those things as huge as they are can land and you don't know it until they bite ya. I found either a tennis racket for...

I always tell folks to go to Meteor Crater if they can, it will impress the hell out of 10-8yo! Speaking of them what are they interested in? Do they know anything about Mountain Men or Pioneers, geology of the West? I would then plan my trip around seeing that kind of stuff. Plenty of it out...

Oh, you are asking about a vehicle.... I was hoping for Stout beer, maybe something like Dragon's Milk Stout......

Learning about bear skulls;

Here is the data I was referring to; You can find more. Richard, I will agree it is/was the incidents where the bear was "too" close that were failures of both options.

Interesting topic, recent studies find that firearms are around 80% effective at stopping bear attacks and bear spray 99% effective. Mainly due to the quickness the spray can be accessed and deployed effectively.

In the 70's we called TP Nevada's State Flower! Bulldozers are the State Animal!

You do 150+ winch pulls in 2 years?! On Youtube there are several off road recovery businesses posting recovery videos. For the last couple of years they have been using Badlands winches with no published failures with perhaps a dozen winches on 5-6 rigs. Though granted most recoveries are done...

I have a Rhino Rack Batwing 270. As far as shade I think it is great with maybe the low sun angle, however you can drop the legs some to get an incline. My biggest issue is how frelling flimsy the hinges are! I had 2 break when first opening it in the desert and it wasn't even windy. I have made...

I have a motorcycle with 2 Pelican 1550's bolted to a frame. Large washers. They have been on there since 2008 and I have loaded them up and taken several tours and used them for commuting and grocery shopping(each case can hold 2 full bags). If the recovery gear is soft, ropes and straps and...