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Lots of not too technical trails around the Moab / Canyonlands area mostly on BLM land with camping options. Chicken Corners and Onion Creek to name a couple. You can also consider the Swell and Capital Reef areas en route to Canyonlands as they have some great trails too. You can fill up 10...

It’s a dirt road with some ruts here and there. A stock 4WD with high clearance can do it no problem as long as you take your time in the rough parts.

Butte Valley in Death Valley NP last weeked.

I have heard from others that this event was lackluster last year with not much more than one building worth of exhibits present. The much better Pomona show is the annual Off Road Expo there each fall. Although it is more off road than overlanding that show is the largest in the area and has...

The statute of limitations in Maryland for civil cases is three years so you may be beyond that or close to that situation. Really your only recourse is through the courts and lawyer fees would be a good chunk of that $5K. Your ability to collect from someone that likely has no substantial...

A crossbar such as this: Amazon Crossbar is probably your best option for something not permanently affixed to those panels. Before getting a rooftop tent I had solar panels mounted to the top of my storage boxes which worked out pretty good.

Since I already had a 2 ton Harbor Freight hoist for lifting engines I just fabricated an arm extension for it to lift the load higher. The extension is just a 6 foot long section of square steel tubing with a 40 degree kink in the middle and a series of holes to bolt the extension in the...

How foolproof and easy have you found the process so far? How do you know that you did a drying session correctly and the food will not unexpectedly spoil? Have you dried meats with success? Can you do a cut of steak or is that where the fat When you are ready to use a dried food item is it...

This is something interesting that I never really considered doing myself until your post here brought this up as a possibility. I had experimented with doing dehydrated food way back when I backpacked more with mixed results. What is the entry cost to doing this? I assume that washing...

Could be somewhere in the electronics. I had the exact same issue with a 2000 Dakota truck (which is a totally different engine and platform) and it was a bad throttle position sensor which I replaced and then everything was good after that.

For every 100W of solar you will need 9A at 12 volts so you won’t exceed 100A unless you have a whole RV roof of panels. I think the main factor in your decision is if you are using that charger to charge another house battery in addition to the vehicle battery and what amp limits might come...

The eTorque generator doesn’t directly charge the 12v battery instead it charges a 48v battery which has a separate dc-to-dc converter to charge the 12v battery. I don’t know the specs off hand for that dc converter but it will be well above 100A and very likely at least 240A as the standard...

Dometic fridges are pretty good and one of the better one’s in terms of power usage so that will also help with managing your overall power requirements. I have the CFX3 35 as that is the best sized for what I need and the cargo space I have available. We had someone in our group with the 75...

I have the same Genesis dual battery setup in my Jeep JL with two AGM group 25 batteries. I have two circuits to my cargo area from the secondary battery bus bar. One circuit provides power to a number of USB outlets, a Dometic fridge, and also a 50 amp Bluetti portable battery and the other...

Was looking forward to this project but unfortunately I have to cancel. I literally have every day open in October except these specific days. Oh well hopefully will be able to join you for the project next spring.

Been looking forward to the mapping project since it was discussed as a possibility during our last Mojave meetup. I have rsvp’d but my mother might be having a surgical procedure that week and then I would need to cancel if that is the case. I’ll know more in a couple weeks at which time I...

Crawling through Holcomb Creek trail near Big Bear.

I would think that 3 months to do the trip would be very tight and unrealistic. The route is over 15,000 miles long (24,000 km) and not all just open highway so you are looking at driving a good 8 hours a day every single day over those three months. Your summer is also the middle of winter...

Overlanding in America’s dirty little secret is that it is really just camping by vehicle. So just go out there and camp like you have been doing. There are two main components to your camping; gear and vehicle. On the gear side if you feel you want to be more comfortable than you...

Yes the meeting is this Thursday (3rd Thur of month) at the Clearman’s Galley in Rosemead.