No judgement, friend! If life isn’t taking priority over adventure, that’s probably a bigger problem!
Spring is always an exciting time! Time to start outfitting and exploring!
I too would be interested in setting up a recurring meetup of the location is right. Rigs and Coffee or something. Maybe once a month to start? Cedarville State Forest is a convenient enough spot for me.
So is part of it keeping the fridge (which is likely not bear proof) out of sight (like in a covered truck bed, covered under a tarp, etc) and the other part is sealing food (ziplocks etc) so they can’t sniff it out?
I’ve seen related discussions, but no direct answers. For folks with bed drawer kitchens and fridge setups built into the trucks, what do you do to prevent theft (by both humans and critters) of your food at camp?
I currently have a bear-resistant cooler that I store in the cab of my truck, but...
Alright y’all. I’m generally new to Overlanding, and up to this point, I’ve mostly camped at reserved campsites at national and state forests. I’d like to try some of the primitive campsites along some of the more remote trails, as that obviously opens up a whole lot of opportunities for trails...
Well said! And before I started this post I believe that I thought the same way. Months later after having seen responses and reflected on the experience I believe 80% of the build would overlap between the two (what I call) ends of the spectrum. But where I initially posted this thinking my...
I like this take because it adds another layer of consideration (local vs long-distance travel). Where I’m at here, the closest adventure is about 4 hours drive, so I find I’d err on the latter side of your spectrum.
I think this is the approach this thread is steering me to take. Not is a position to buy a latchkey Silverado or Raptor right now, but can plan for and reattack this when the kids are old enough. It’s also a good motivator to consider interoperability of my add-ons as I build my current rig...
I’m seeing a lot of responses to the effect of: “Technical hardcore crawling = go small; easier, leisure camping = can be done in a big rig.” And related to another of my posts a while back about learning the difference between Overlanding and “Wheeling” (crawling), as I start off on this hobby...
Relatively new to adventure travel, but I love it and can’t wait to share it with my kids when they’re older. But I occasionally worry that when that time comes, things will get a bit cramped in the back of my Crew Cab mid-size Colorado. Especially with car seats.
With full-sized trucks getting...
After talking to a few more folks, I think the crawl toy not being the daily is key. I’m not in that stage of life yet, so my truck is my daily and that drives me to be much more cautious. But again, I think Overlanding is much more accessible in that respect. Not that it can’t get dangerous...
Marginally relevant, but a potential tangent:
I consider Overlanding/car camping/whatever you want to call it significantly different than WHEELING. Perhaps this is just from personal experience, but I associate wheeling with technical off roading and rock crawling. That can be an element of...
I agree with this. Part of the beauty of Overlanding (the adventure, not the word) is that it doesn’t require a certain set of things to happen. You just have to have a vehicle, you need to depend on it for food, water, and shelter, and you need to be going into your trip (regardless of...
I appreciate the feedback. It's nice to know that I'm not just being a pansy and a tough weekend wheeling isn't the "norm" for overland adventure travel.
I looked up Canaan Valley Loop on the OB1 app and it shows the trail as a Level 1 in terms of difficulty. I asked my buddy who came with me to...
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