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    Gaia or....

    Hey Konza i have bcn pro i got very frustrated with it because i could not loadareas of any significant size to any detail there seemed to be some kind of unlisted fike size limits! Do you know if that is true? Does the new program eliminate that defect? MuY goak is ti hsve the western...
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    GAIA and apple car play

    Sbj what are you drivung that you can get sat maps on your dash board? How? Do you have to have a cell ervice or wifi ? Thinking you must cause i dont think that yiu can do it with gps alone? What I really wish is that some company would just load the entire usa and canada onto some kind...
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    FOR SALE Bfg ko2 285 70 17 carlsbad ca

    Sokd them already
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    Need An Overland Vehichle

    Think about a mid 80s 3/4 ton solid front axel suburban it is as solid as they come chevy 350 motor i have several toyotas tacoma and older trucks landcruisers blazers bronco jkur jlur series 100 lancruiser all are most have flaws but that 85 4x4 suburban was smooth as glass and built...
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    Having trouble deciding

    I just had backbsurgery 3 weeks ago mine was pretty minor i was in excrutiang pain my whole right leg hurt all the time i couldn't sleep and there was no position i coild lie down in it was my L4/5 . Ironically the only time i was comfortable was driving my new 2018 jlur my...
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    Nature Photos

    Interested in what make model lens are your favorites and why . I used to shoot alot of nature and bif i was using canon for a while ( years) started digital with a d20m then upgraded that for a 40 d and bought a 5d. time went by so did life and I was talking with my son, he...
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    My Quest for Tablet Navigation

    My descent into the black hole of tablet navigation happened 3 years ago at west coast expo in flagstaff my son and i were touring the exhibitor booths and got tired of seeing so much stuff so we decided to go explore. There is lots of dirt roads there so we loaded up the jeep and dogs...
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    My Quest for Tablet Navigation

    Using a lenovo a2 10 inch tablet i tried downloading large areas zoom level 15 whic ended up about 250,000 tiles iread that gaia doesnt handle file sizes over 100,000 tiles i have been trying ti get bcn topo usa and now alpine quest to run effectively on that tablet what i experience is...
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    Off-line Tablet

    I made the mistake of going to zoom level 15 and when ever i use those maps it wont zoom that far . How many tiles does a 2.5 gig map take up?
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    Gaia or....

    Try topo usa or alpinrquest both put bcn to shame i have all three at 11 apiece i can afford it. The biggest limitation with all of them and gaia is the ability to store large areas i down loaded most of the western usa in chunks that consited of 250,000 tiles some more some less i...
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    Too complicated /too expensive

    Years ago like 1974 my buddy Dave and i 2 college kids would pack up every easter break and gead down the coast on a surfing trip the goal was drive stop surf camp surf explore. We went in his datsun 1200 hatch back this was long before datsun became nissan we folded the rear seats...
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    Navigation

    How large an area arevyou able to down load ? How much detail?
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    Suggestions for GPS device.

    Some background info. 2 years ago at expo west my sone and i got over the crowds and decided to go explore. So we loaded up our 125lb golden/moose mix and my petite by comparison and went exploring i was runnig bcn on a lenovo tablet he had topo usa on an android phone free version...
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    Suggestions for GPS device.

    Go to magellan explorist they have a site that you preview all that the gps does you get a feel for it pretty quick . Like a lot of things ir has a few quirks the biggest in my view which is easily fixed is spe)ing. Say you want to preview a trail unless you spell it exactly right it won't...
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    Suggestions for GPS device.

    Yep pulled the trigger on the magellan for me it is perfect The thing about tablets and gps as a nav device is this they are great if u know you are going to be in a specfic area . Then you just down load the area it will be a small file say you are thinking death valley easy and...
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    Suggestions for GPS device.

    I have a 10 inch Lenovo a2 i topo usa pro 11 bucks. I thought about gaia but the subscription i dont care for. What iwant to to snd have tried with only partial success is to download the enire weten us. So did that and it used about 3/4 of a 128 gig mini sd card. Here is the...
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    FOR SALE Bfg ko2 285 70 17 carlsbad ca

    Whoops $650 or best
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    FOR SALE Bfg ko2 285 70 17 carlsbad ca

    Bfg 285 70 17 5 tires 4 with 13000 miles 1 with no miles these are the original equipment from my 2018 jeep jlur i am selling them to go to the same tire in a larger size i wont seperate the spare ideally some one locally needs this set and we csn meet at atire store miunt your...
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    Need An Overland Vehichle

    I have been a jeep guy for along long time starting with my first in 1977 cj7 golden eagle i am a geologist so i get to spend alot of time off road there are many good choices out there and as iook back i often rememberbthis big old beast chevy suburban i drovebit through a...
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    Options when an electric winch is not possible

    Personal experience here when I did not have a winch I needed one when I had one I did not need one if your like me and to some degree you must be then the allure of that interesting dirt road callsyou cant ignore it