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Got my permit stuff started, looking forward to meeting some more folks around here. If y'all want, we can start a group message to work out details and stuff. I trust everyone has recovery gear, straps, shovels, etc. I'll plan on bringing my chainsaw as well, I've been wanting to explore this...

For a lot of the folks I know through cycling, the search for trails and going to races led to us doing more camping and to more van-life and overland type travel. I've been camping and 4wheeling for a decades though, and endurance racing, mountain biking, distance running, fourwheeling all kind...

I gotta admit, I hate washing my Jeep. Its black, huge, and dealing with water spots is a huge pain.... Its still something we do, even if we dislike it because of the salts out in the desert here. Our truck is marginally easier to keep clean. I generally solve the dirty jeep problem with...

Totally reasonable request IMO. I'll pencil it in... what do y'all do for coms? I mainly use HAM but can do FRS and GMRS as well.

Huh, I'll have to give em a call this afternoon. If you're down for some company, I'd love to tag along.

So, here's a topic I've wanted to bring up here for a while, and its pretty relevant after our latest Death Valley trip where our trucks didn't have any major mechanical issues but another truck in the group had a driveshaft CV joint go south on us. What are your post overland and off-road...

Its been on my list to-do for a long time, the permit thing is a pain but I might try to make it out there this winter...

Our '03 GMC with an LM7 (5.3L V8, woo!) just hit 204k on our Death Valley trip, We keep up on maintaince on the thing and we're expecting to get another 100-200k out of it. My partner LOVES the truck.

I've given some thought to a battery box but with the OEM tray and the ease of just putting a second batt in the truck, I'm just going to do that. and I have a bunch of the parts already to do so... In other news I'm always impressed at what we can do in our truck. It manages to be a great...

So, here's a topic that is related to this... What is your off road fuel range or MPG. We had a pretty big OB group in Death Valley this weekend and it was kind of interesting seeing differences we all had in our fuel range. I used the 3 extra gallons I bought in my JKU, and I averaged around...

Yeah.... IFS isn't cheap to lift or increase suspension performance on. The upper control arms need to be replaced in general to allow more droop. Coilovers are always going to be $$$ and then all the other bits add up.

Front UCA's and coilovers should get you 2-3" with a major increase in performance. UCA's will allow more wheel travel and to make better use of the fancy pants coilovers when he upgrades.

I've found a lot of elite and high performing athletes into long duration, off the grid travel. Myself included... Most of my friends who have RTT's on their trucks and are kitted out for travel are not doing it for 4x4 trips but rather mountain bike trips and camping and riding for a week out...

We avoid anything glass when camping for the reasons stated above. my wife and I just got some nice Snowpeak pots just for 4x4 trips, so far they're pretty awesome. Stainless steel, sturdy, wood handles on top of the stainless lids. We decided to go to these after wearing out a no-name set we...

Yep, Mine is my daily, regeared with 35's and a fairy light build makes for a fun drive and the fuel eco isn't too bad.

We have a 5lb tank, its a great size for truck based stuff. We don't have ours with a bracket or mounted but we just shove it in a box and it works great for that.

Had this chase bar for a little but, and i finally got around to fabbing up a mount for it, while I was at it, also relocated the 2m/70cm antenna and got rid of the old 3rd brake light and old chase light. Upside to this is i have a free circuit now from the old chase light, so I'm going to get...

Nope, the slide is pretty much at the bottom of the bed. We deal with lots of bins in there, lol.

I'll send ya a PM...

Tagging my adventure buddy @Pi_Baker to this thread, I think she'll dig it.