Where Have You Off-Roaded Today? 3rd Gen

Pretty sure that's the older version of Gaia GPS. There's a new and improved version available in the app store. Works great!

 

Check out this thread. I posted a bunch of .gpx files a while back for that whole area.

https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/gpx-files-for-n-ga-trails.460878/

 

As stated, it is GAIA app. I just started using it. Make sure you download the maps before going out. It run off cell service unless you download them before moving out.

Thanks man, I'll check it out.

Thanks man, take the fun away of exploring on my own! Haha I'll just tell the wife I went out and all over and found them just for her. I down loaded the GA Traverse aswell. Already paid off

 

The GA traverse has a bunch of closed trails on it as of May 2017 and what's not closed can be done in a Minivan. You're going to want to hit Flatland Rd in Suches and the Chimney Mountain side of Tray Mtn. Also check out Sheep Wallow Rd near Dahlonega.

 

It's also my daily driver/family car, so I don't want to take the mileage hit from a lift. I actually went over a large rock, and I thought dented the oil pan. I didn't realize the stock TRD OR had such a sturdy plate protecting the pan. For the what I want to do( 4x4 parks, desert running and light trails), I was wondering if the stock setup is good enough?

 

Didn't get to do much off-roading but took the family on a road trip from Tulsa to OKC ,Amarillo , Albuquerque , the Grand Canyon , Hoover dam , Las Vegas , up through Utah by Moab, down the Johnson Tunnel , to Denver , down to Colorado Springs up by pikes peak , then across I-70 to Salina and home through Wichita.


Didn't get to off-road much but I snagged a few pictures of the truck along the way .

 

That's good to know about the traverse. Thanks. Chimney mountain side is fun if you like bouncing over exposed rock. I have a bit more of tray to explor and sheeps wallow is fun. Only have done it in the damn mud and that will be the last time I take it through that amount of mud. I do would like to go back in the dry and play with more of the technical stuff. Looked like lots of good camping there for the weekend aswell.

 

Check out Winding Stair Gap Rd and FSR58 (Three Forks). Great camp8ng there. Also have Hawk Mountain Rd up there which has a pretty technical climb at the end.

 

I have a 2017 stock Off Road and have had lots of fun rough places and no scrapes or dents at this time. The biggest problem I've found are bushes and trees. I just don't want to scratch up the truck when it's so new. I just plan to see how far I can go and use common sense to get me there.

I think our trucks are very capable. Enjoy it!

B

 

So there are hooks for kids seat to be installed in the middle seat? I gotta look again

 

No LATCH hooks in the middle seat... gotta use the seat belt for a kid's seat there.

 

For that booster I just used the seat belt. When i have the baby in the middle spot, i'll use the Latch on the other 2 sides.

 

Finally edited and uploaded my Cleghorn trip with the boys. The TRD Pro 4Runner was nice especially since it's my cousin in quicksand.

https://youtu.be/ooy9S0SITgA

 

If you only need 1 seat in the back, just use the inboard LATCH hoops from the passenger and driver side. That's my current setup for my son's rear-facing seat...

 

"Steep" hill climb....wanna go to Moab?

 

i'm a noob. it was steep as hell to me. lol

 

This is pretty far off road. Le Conte glacier on mainland SE Alaska, across Frederick Sound from Kupreanof Island, about 90 minutes by my friend's jet boat from Petersburg. Tacoma could have gotten to within 60 miles or so. After that it's swim or climb mountains and talk to the brown bear, which are populous. Face of the glacier is about a mile across and 200 feet tall and it goes down over a thousand feet.

 

This pictures are west!

 

A little jealous. I got into building model rockets almost ten years ago and have a blast (pun intended) doing it, but do you have any idea how hard it is to find open space in Western Washington that's not someones farm and doesn't have a forest?

 

I worked for the Forest Service out of Wrangle for a summer. Hoped a boat ride to Petersburg for a weekend once when I was there. That's a great area, but not to many roads to run around on. I ended up flying out of Wrangle four days after 9/11. We puddled jumped from Wrangle to Petersburg in a 737 for a layover before we headed to Juneau and then Seattle. I think it was something like a ten or fifteen minuet flight and I don't think we got more than a few thousand feet of the ground.