Recent content by 12C20

I’d suggest a JK or JL Unlimited. Your large RTT can be mounted on an aftermarket roof or safari rack. Good gear choice and packing strategy can let you all fit inside with gear.

If I were to start over, I’d just throw my sleeping bag, pad, a bag of cold pizza, and a gallon of water in the Tacoma and spend the night at a state park. I’d go home and decide what would have made me less miserable and add it to the kit, what I didn’t use and leave it home, and iterate into...

I carry a 1/2” breaker bar, an extension, and a handful of deep sockets in common lug nut sizes - ever since running across a Jeep in Canyonlands who had lost half its lug nuts and the others were on their way off. I was able to jerry rig things to work for him, but having the right tools...

A year ago my son (‘96 FJZ80) and I (‘16 Tacoma) circumnavigated the Mark Twain Nat’l Forest. Message me and I’ll see if he still has the route. We took 3 days to do about 200 miles.

Thank you for this discussion! When you fold your Ayer 2 when the outside is wet, how wet is the inside when you set up that night?

I have 2 Jerry cans in a Front Runner mounting bracket bolted to the top of my Decked drawers behind my driver’s rear window. I can just siphon them into the tank from the bed.

Got lost in Eastern Nevada and came upon this herd of wild horses. And, by “lost” I mean got onto trails that showed on maps, but sometimes petered out, with a full tank of gas, 10 gallons of gas in Jerry cans, 11 gallons of water, and 5,000 calories of food onboard.

Haha! It was only the officers who got those in our unit. I only know them because I had to set them up!

We called it a GP-Small.

October 2024 in the Mark Twain National Forest.

What about spacers, instead?

Truth, but they are really good to use.

I carry a 25’ “logging chain” I bought at my farm supply store. I don’t know the link size, but it’s a heavy thing and I don’t worry about damaging it.

I like my propane fire pit - I think it’s a small Camp Chef. No sparks = less wildfire risk. No wood = no ashes and less smoky smelling stuff.

I’m free in the morning through midday.