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Adventures Are Not On Any Map (but a good GPS doesn’t hurt)

August 20th, 2010 · 7 Comments · How To Info

I like maps!  I’ll spend hours in map stores, looking, touching, smelling maps, planning off road adventures.  Maps are great!
I like maps… But I love technology.  Now before you scream about technology on an off road adventure failing, breaking, getting dusty and wet or  how the battery can die off, I always carry hard copies [...]

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And They Call It Vendor Love…

February 27th, 2010 · No Comments · Rants, Raves and the Zen Art of Road Trip Management

With all the mods on the rig we’ve had to work with a number of 4×4 shops and after market vendors. And as you know some of them are better than others. So what makes one vendor better than another?
Certainly some vendors produce higher quality gear than others, but not everyone wants or needs [...]

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Trail Tracker

December 2nd, 2009 · No Comments · Rants, Raves and the Zen Art of Road Trip Management

Every think that you need a place to keep track of the trails you’ve run so you can share them with others?  Ever wonder where you could go to find trails in other locations that you want to explore?  Well wonder no more…
As Toyota makes a push to show the world its new 5th generation [...]

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Surviving Rubicon… Out The Other End

October 5th, 2009 · 2 Comments · 2009 Rubicon Adventure

So you want to run the Rubicon Trail… And who wouldn’t… But what does it mean to survive the Con? For us it meant two long hard days on the trail with some of the most beautiful scenery in the world. It also meant a little carnage, a lot of fun [...]

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Oh My Hell… This Is Rubicon!

October 2nd, 2009 · 6 Comments · 2009 Rubicon Adventure

100 yards into the trail and we’re breaking out the hi-lifts…  Welcome to the Con! We’d heard tales, read about it on-line and seen pictures… But until you are facing down the Rubicon, it is hard to understand the knot that wells up in your stomach as you realize… this is wheeling… on the big stuff.
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