The 2016 NorCal Camping/Wheeling Thread!

I'd be down for a midweek trip . Thinking Niagara Rim

 

Same concern, but no Jerry's (yet)...

 

I think im geting about the same. At least for the dd i do. Mostly in town around 200 miles a tank.

 

Yeah, that is it. Few links in here for that. Not solid on that exact route, once we have a group and are on the road we may modify a bit. Also will meetup a lil off that route for the first day and night (that way I can start a day earlier and put the group together on a couple of spots).

 

Auxiliary Fuel tank...I get 500 miles to a fill up with mixed driving and doing 75 on the highway.

 

Gas cans are easy to solve. Friends have them. Plastic cans are cheap and can be strapped down many ways. I have a second set of frontrunner jerry cans with the mount that someone will use for this trip. I don't think fuel will be a huge issue, I try to plan to barely need it so that if we really do need it we have plenty to get us somewhere. Our stock tanks can get us pretty far in the backcountry if we are not playing around too much, this is why the desert always gets me fuel wise, too much lead foot fun to be had. I will throw a post up today or tomorrow so we have one place for all this good discussion.

 

Wish I could join but would be hard to get that kinda time off work

 

I have a 6 gallon plastic gas can you can use. The spout on it absolutely sucks though. I ended up putting it on the roof of my camper shell and siphoning the gas into my truck.
I think it currently has the gas the aux tank came with so I gotta figure out where to get rid of that first.

 

The desert almost got @EDDO,@CalTacoma09 and I a few weeks back. Rolled into the station with the fuel light on. That trip pretty much sealed the deal for me on a new rear bumper with duel gas can mounts.

 

Yeah I made the mistake recently of not topping off when the jeeps rolled through a gas station. A few gallons at $4.50+ is a lot better than being under 1/4 and still on dirt. Never again, I take advantage of topping of wherever I can before/between hitting dirt, I hate saying no to side trail exploring.

 

Way I see it, we could have split my extra 5 three ways.
Damn that impassible side canyon! Doubling back to the pole line road made all the difference.

 

Lol yes it did!!!

 

It's cheap insurance!

 

post is up. https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads...ackcountry-discovery-trails-adventure.431671/

will wait to see what I get from this forum before I crosspost to ExPo and meetup.

 

Hey George, where did you order the rear bumper from?

 

I went with the Brute Force high clearance.

 

Nice I just picked up my high clearance rear bumper with dual swing outs from Billy about a week ago. It's great!

 

Probably another month before mine are ready. Can't wait!

 

Just ordered a brute force front hybrid bumper