Where Have You Off-Roaded Today? 3rd Gen

Life is so much better that way.

 

Passenger side is usually the bearer of most of the scars. Natural tendency to protect the side of the vehicle the driver is on.

We call those “Rocky Mountain pinstripes” here….or sometimes I refer to it as “mountain love”

I’ll also throw in-“Scars are just tattoos with better stories….”

 

BTW- my four wheel shop says my skid plate is “well loved”

 

Those are all "Nature kisses".

 

INDEED!

 

Here in VA we tend to distribute them pretty evenly from bumper to bumper. Some pretty narrow passages in the woods.

 

Off roaded around Cline Butte near Redmond OR. Great day but lots of dust.

 

Sunday drive….

 

Got out of the valley over the weekend. Hopefully its the last 100+ degree one too, ha. And a huge shoutout to @Yacob_D for hooking me up with spindle and cam tab gussets! Thank you to all the fellas who helped as well! Network Alignment even worked with my locking cams too. They dialed it in as close as they could, barely kissing my UCA's now.

Driver side going back together:



Explored all weekend and I'm pretty sure some of those bumps should have knocked my alignment out.

 

Red River Gorge, KY

 

Ran into this beast today. The Infantry Squad Vehicle (ISV). GM Defense based on the Chevrolet Colorado ZR2 platform. This thing is super cool and the troops love it.

 

Took a 185 mile round trip today through the Sequoia National Forest (So CA). Came across this large metal dome/cone. No idea what it is, but guessing it’s related to the old logging or mining days.

 

That’s awesome. That there is an old beehive burner. Waste wood was burned there instead of repurposing.

 

Thanks for that info! Always good to learn something new.

 

Had an absolute blast at prairie city SVRA! 2wd with Truetrac lsd and aired down got me up almost all the obstacles. Note to self however to never go anywhere near mud again, it’s not worth the absolute PITA of cleaning the undercarriage

 

Glad you had fun, but don't shy away from splash around a bit. This makes pretty quick work of your under carriage. We have some pretty sticky clay mud around here. This on my power washer just melts it right off.

 

Went to Loch Lomand hoping to see something like this…(pic is from last summer)

But, total buzz kill as this is what we saw…The lake is about 30’ low. But got a couple of cool truck pics.

 

SSO slimline full plate bumper install and Apex Badlands 12,000lbs winch install. Let's not talk about the location of the winch solenoid, just know it works.


Cut a spot to access the free spool

And a 32 inch light bar that came free from buying the winch at harbor freight.

 

Woke up at 6 and headed out to the Owyhee mountains for a few hours. Lucky for me it’s in my backyard so I packed a sandwich, grabbed a coffee and topped up my fuel tank. I hit a few trails before heading up to Silver City and then War Eagle Mountain. Even made it back to do yard work before dinner. The only bummer is I caught a bird, so he took a little ride before I took him off.

 

AL