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Zion will be hot. Beat the heat and drive up to 10K feet at either Cedar Breaks National Monument (look out for both deer and domestic sheep herds on the road) or Dixie National Forest. Bryce Canyon National Park gets up to just over 9K feet, so it may be okay and there are some excellent hikes...

North to Montana! Bring on the snow, Colorado has thawed and is getting too warm.

Farewell to Telluride’s mountains and onward to the desert areas of southwest Colorado. Ain’t life grand?

I’d be in, assuming I’m in town…

Elk and moose and marmots - Oh, my! Colorado is fun!

Are you sure it doesn’t fit? My Nitto Ridge Grapplers (LT285/70R17) are 32.76” and the full size spare fits underneath just fine on my 2016 4Runner.

That’s what we call a “backwoods divorce”

Goodbye Wyoming - hello Colorado!

I left Yellowstone due to the rain, a day before they announced the closure. Cut short my visit by three days. It’ll probably take years to repair the roads and have a negative economic effect on the Gardiner area if the north entrance remains closed for an extended period. Even down here in...

Overlanding on foot, aka hiking: Mt. Washburn in Yellowstone (snow, minor hail) and Lake of the Crags in Grand Teton (steep, lots of snow, amazing views).

Grand Teton National Park is…Grand. Hiked to Delta Lake, lots of snow, but WOW! Too magnificent for words!

Spring storms in Wyoming, fresh snow on the Teton Range, and I saw a moose!

Check out the “Fires - Wildfire Maps and Info” app. The logo is a red flame on a brown background. It’s a singular point of access for various wildfire resources: InciWeb, CalFire, NOAA, etc. in the U.S., plus several Australian reporting agencies for our friends in the Southern Hemisphere...

On the road…

I’d also recommend you keep trying to book inside the park by contacting the booking company (Xanterra - Yellowstone National Park Lodges) right up until your arrival. CALL, don’t trust the online booking system. I was able to change my dates last summer on very short notice, even though their...

An amazing story! In 1947, Thor Heyerdahl and his small crew set out to cross the Pacific Ocean from Peru to the South Seas on a small, homemade raft in order to prove his theory that ancient people could have completed such a feat. This story not only involves “overwatering” travel, but also a...

One of my favorites! I recommend reading two other Abbey books: The Fool’s Progress - a disheartened man journeys (overlands?) across the US with a dying dog to his Appalachian childhood home. Along the way, he reflects on his life. The Brave Cowboy - a stubborn cowboy (4-legged overlanding)...

Can someone turn on the heater in Wyoming before I arrive? Just take the chill off, please…thanks!

Nice! I like the sharp detail in the smoke. What shutter setting did you use? Would you do anything differently next time? I had my first go at photographing humans moving quickly (dancing). It’s difficult to find the sweet spot. I’m using a Canon 5D Mark IV. I used the program (P) setting, AI...