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I can vouch for the F150 being an underrated platform. Slap some 33 or 34 inch tires on that guy and get out there.

Assuming that you’re in ABQ, I’ve heard good things about this guy: https://www.yelp.com/biz/xtreme-cb-albuquerque Can’t vouvh personally though.

I spent plenty of time thinking about weight before I chose my F150 with the heavy duty payload package. NMFire actually released some literature regarding vehicle selection for fire suppression, and along with items like ground clearance recommendations they recommended that you keep your...

If you’re worried about interior space then you might want to wait for the new Bronco to come out before you trade in your F150.

It’s not a situation where there is hard line between enough sidewall to air down and not enough sidewall to air down. The best idea is simply to have as much rubber as possible so that you can air down as low as possible when necessary. With that in mind, I got 285/75r18 ridge grapplers for...

Paved: US 191 along the AZ/NM border between Morenci and Alpine/Springerville. The road is awesome going North, but it's a religious experience going South on a clear day. Unpaved: I spent untold tanks of gas driving the circuit around the Catalina Mts near Tucson AZ when I was in high...

https://www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/fseprd590633.pdf FR 150 on that map, running across grid squares C4 and C5

Yes. A ham license does not include GMRS. Ham radios aren't type certified for GMRS either.

Why not settle on the five basic MURS channels? VHF for advantageous physics over CB, no license required for 2W transmissions, small number of standard channels for easy scanning, and baofeng makes some $15 dollars handhelds. One could argue legality since I don’t believe there are any base...

Tires, navigation, communications. After those it’s just a matter of getting out there and figuring out what you want to do and what lets you do that.

Bend the front crash bars out of the way with a hydraulic rental from autozone, fit some 285/75r18 small 35s, replace the shocks with some bilstein 5200s or 6150s while you're in there, and go have fun. 12.5in tires will usually rub against the control arms at steering lock, whether they be 33s...

This is like asking whether steel or aluminum or carbon fiber is stronger - the question has inadequate specificity. Designing to the strengths matters more than the strengths themselves. XJs were quite popular because they worked, but these days they're aging out of the game. Wranglers are...

I'm interested in the location of the campsite. Thanks for sharing!

Guadalupe Mountains National Park is right on the TX/NM border, about 40 miles east of El Paso/Cruces Can't vouch personally for the campsites there, but they are reviewed well.

I'll be there with the NM4W group, with my RTT deployed.

Most of the TAT would be fine in a forester, but there are parts going through Colorado and Utah where you'll appreciate the ground clearance and sidewall height of a proper 4x4. Add a lift, cut some sheet metal, and buy the biggest tires with the smallest wheels that you can bolt onto a...

The tragedy of the commons is an economic theory of a situation within a shared-resource system where individual users acting independently according to their own self-interest behave contrary to the common good of all users by depleting or spoiling that resource through their collective action...

Signed up to go. Very excited.

Need is a strong word. There is definite benefit to having as much sidewall as possible, and tires tend to be cheaper in 17in sizes than in 18in sizes, but it'd be a long time before that cost differential bore fruit in excess of the cost of buying new wheels. If you're considering changing...