Where Have You Off-Roaded Today? 3rd Gen

its pretty gnarly, amazing how different the landscape is just a few hours from Los Angeles is. Mind blowing. I cant imagine how it is during sun rise or sun set.

 

nice taco, twin ; ) my topper is getting here on friday.

 

My weekend adventure, tried to make it to the tower. ONy to end up having to back down the tight ass trail in snow. Not a lot of fun let me tell ya.

 

looks intense

 

It’s an easy trail in the summer time, I wasn;t sure if there would be snow or not, so I took off and figured I’d give it a go. Easy for 75% of the trail unti I got to the saddle right before the tower, about 300-400ms away, I encountered about a foot of snow. Someone had gone through recently (last week or so) with large 35” tyres I am guessing due to the size of the ruts. Sadly those ruts were packed and slick. I slide drivers side trying to get to the tower, thought I was going over at one point. Took me 20mins to get there and about 60mins to back out as I couldn’t see the trail (Sun and there was no definition in the snow in my mirrors or back up camera).

 

Signal peak

and Bowman Lake, with less than 500 miles on it

 

If you haven't already, look for Mountain State Overland on YouTube. Their most recent series has lots of off road / technical work. Its a great series. (also takes some of the sting out of being east coasters...)

 

Umm no fear of heights as you're gonna be backing up inches from the edge of a cliff a hundred times

Sliders were used, and front bumper would've been nice to have as a feeler. The guys hauling the trailer up were insane. After doing it in person there's no way I'd ever try and take a trailer up that thing.

 

Took it out to Brown's Camp outside Portland, OR last weekend.

 

Urban exploring North Phoenix AZ

 

Big Bend National Park, Chisos Mountains

 

I did Glenn Springs Road, Black Gap Road, and River Road West. And Ole Ore Road I think.

 

This is the Gifford Pinchot National Forest up in Western Washington, not to much off roading but heck of a lot of fun running dirt roads and throwing a fishing line in some lakes!

 

Sweet! Where in the GPNF is this? I love exploring up there, especially backpacking.

 

The Mrs and I are celebrating our 6th wedding anniversary so we headed down to Zion/Springdale for a long weekend away from the kiddos. We got married down here so we come back often. We got in early for dinner but too late to go for a bike ride so we decided to take a drive out to the Red Bull Rampage site to see exactly how crazy these dudes are.

In summary, these guys are fucking nuts. Seeing the drops and jumps in person puts things into perspective. Pretty much every landing is blind, everything is steeper and looser than you can imagine. Insane. Also, seeing the amount of work done to make this stuff rideable is mind blowing.

We’re going to get our version of rad on at Guacamole and Gooseberry...

 

You should check out the all things bikes and tacos page. I like your style by the way.

 

Thanks, I’ll try to remember to post up a summary of this trip in the bike thread.

 

Went for a leisurely drive around Montana mountain