Arizona Overlanders

Last Saturday night or Sunday morning we headed out to Four Peaks road to watch the meteor shower. We left our house around 1:30 Hunt HWY to Bee Line. I was surprised the traffic and the offload area west of 87 and south of Sugarloaf there were lights of of trucks, Jeeps, SXS had to be at least 20 out there. Then we went 4-5 miles east on Four Peaks Road and found a place to set up our chairs. We stayed till around 4:15 and saw at least another 15-20 vehicles coming down from the east.

So is this a thing to go out in the middle of the night? Maybe if you put $3000 in lights on your vehicle you need to use them?

I was planning on camping up near the saddle once it cools down a bit, but who wants to camp with that much traffic. And the SXS are loud, you can hear them even before you can see the lights.

Oh and the meteor shower was just so-so. It was partly cloudy but we saw 25-30.
 
Todd & Meg said:
Last Saturday night or Sunday morning we headed out to Four Peaks road to watch the meteor shower. We left our house around 1:30 Hunt HWY to Bee Line. I was surprised the traffic and the offload area west of 87 and south of Sugarloaf there were lights of of trucks, Jeeps, SXS had to be at least 20 out there. Then we went 4-5 miles east on Four Peaks Road and found a place to set up our chairs. We stayed till around 4:15 and saw at least another 15-20 vehicles coming down from the east.

So is this a thing to go out in the middle of the night? Maybe if you put $3000 in lights on your vehicle you need to use them?

I was planning on camping up near the saddle once it cools down a bit, but who wants to camp with that much traffic. And the SXS are loud, you can hear them even before you can see the lights.

Oh and the meteor shower was just so-so. It was partly cloudy but we saw 25-30.
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I've been down Four Peaks pretty late before, 2am being the latest, but I never saw another vehicle other than my group. People may just be happy the area is open again? Or just maybe out to see the meteor shower too. In my experience that seems out of the norm.
 
Man! if you haven’t been out to the east fork you have to go! Go to Big Lake and take the off highway route. Absolutely beautiful. The area is recovering nicely from the 2011 fires. You can see some more at our Instagram and Youtube @Providentpathfinders.


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Does anyone know if you can cross the Verde River at Verde Hot Springs? I have seen some older YouTube videos but it’s hard to tell where they are doing it.
 
My weekend excursion in the Escudilla mountain area, very wet, great lightning show and lots of wildlife.

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Made a video of bits and pieces of the East Fork/Big lake trip. 90% of the time i’m too busy enjoying the outdoors to do video. I need to get better at that and flying the drone and overall planning out video ahead of time [emoji23][emoji23][emoji23]
 
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It's that time of year again, time to start planning the Arizona Convoy up to Off the Grid Rally West!

If you wanna go, registration is still open: Overland Bound Off the Grid Rally West 2018
If you want to drive up with the AZ convoy, RSVP to the AZ Convoy Rally Point Event
After you RSVP for the event, discussion will happen in this connected meetup thread

The plan will be roughly the same as last year with some slight variation. The plan will be to leave northwest side of Tucson in the morning, possible pickup stop in the Phoenix area, and a final collection of any northern AZ folks in the Prescott area. We will then head to Granite Mountain in the Mojave Desert for a night of sleep before rolling out in the morning to head to Camp Edison.

Pickup locations and times will be finalized once we have a bit of a roll-call of who is attending.
 
jim SoG said:
Just got back from White Horse Lake camping (South of Williams), beautiful! Was a cool 70 ish, a slight chill in the air at night, Sure needed this! Saw Horses, Deer, Elk and no drunks! Here is a couple pics:
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Never been up there. Was anyone catching any fish?
 
Seemed so but I did not fish, WAS ON THE TRAILS AND ROADS EXPLORING. oops caps lock.
 
Hi! I am in downtown Phoenix. I hope to get more involved in the community I have been lurking around ;)
My wife’s a nurse so our schedule is always changing but hoping to make some meet ups

-Jess
 
Hello everyone I’m a new OB member. I’m Mesa. Does AZ have like monthly meet up or do we just post on here that we’re going somewhere and if anyone want to tag along. Just want to hit some trails.
 
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Hunter Explores Overland said:
Hello everyone I’m a new OB member. I’m Mesa. Does AZ have like monthly meet up or do we just post on here that we’re going somewhere and if anyone want to tag along. Just want to hit some trails.
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There hasn’t been. If you’re looking for regular trail runs look in to a club of some sort. Here is a sample... https://offroadpassport.com
 
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