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    BARE MINIMUM GEAR Starter Kit?

    There are several review videos up on youtube - they're pretty amazing.
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    BARE MINIMUM GEAR Starter Kit?

    A stupid pile of camera equipment is "essential" for me, but the wife strongly disagrees.:grinning:
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    BARE MINIMUM GEAR Starter Kit?

    Actually, because they are so small, I keep a pair of E50 fire extinguishers in each of our vehicles (on or off road). +1 on the recovery straps.
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    BARE MINIMUM GEAR Starter Kit?

    But seriously, it depends on your plan. Minimum? Vehicle with a full tank of gas Food, Water, Toilet-Paper, Shovel. Someone at home who knows where you're going and when you're back. Pretty much everything else is either comfort or what-if. People are going to yell at me now :-)
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    OB Approved Overland Safety Kit: Series Introduction

    A two-way radio - kind of a modern CB radio.
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    New Rig Advice

    A couple notes: (1) You might consider adding "PAYLOAD (and Curb Weight or GVWR)" as the second criteria immediately after "Total Budget", since these are the primary limitations on any build out. Estimate the weight increase for your build-plan and the weight of the people, water, gear, and...
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    Looking to start overlanding. Can I do it with my new SR5?

    I have a TRD OffRoad, currently rocking stock tires. Here's a rundown of what I find I need when crawling around the mountains in Northern New Mexico: 4WD High Range - yep, all the time 4WD Low-Range - yes, on rougher trails Rear Locker, A-Trac, Crawl-Control - rare to occasional, mostly on...
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    Trip to NM and Valles Caldera

    I live in Los Alamos, and Valles Caldera is kind of my backyard, just a few miles away. With Gaia, I use the following maps/layers when I'm poking around back there: MVUM layer (at about 40% opacity) Public Land Layer (at about 40% opacity) Gaia Topo (feet) as my base map Other tips: Also...
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    Tire Pressure Gauge - Which One is Accurate?

    I second Longacre. it is both consistent and accurate.
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    SAN DIEGO IS CAPITAL OF OVERLANDING IN NORTH AMERICA

    Totally agree. 100%. Everyone should completely avoid Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, and Utah. Nothing to see there. At all. Go to California. Honest! :laughing::laughing::laughing::laughing::laughing::laughing: (seriously, SoCal is pretty hard to beat)
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    Tacoma or 4Runner?

    Renting a U-Haul truck or trailer or a Home Depot truck or van for the occasional day I need cargo space or payload exceeding the 4Runner's space/payload, has turned out to be an extremely cost effective option.
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    GPS Noob

    If your iPad doesn't have built-in GPS, there is a solution: The Dual XGPS160 SkyPro GPS Receiver. It's a GPS/GLONASS antenna that can connect to as many as 5 devices (phones, tablets, etc) via BlueTooth and I've found that it produces much more stable/accurate position information than the...
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    GPS Noob

    So far, I like the GaiaGPS app on our phones/tablets. All your maps/routes/waypoints are backed up to the cloud and available on all of the devices attached to the could account. You can pre-sync the routes etc and pre-download route maps for when you're our of cell phone range. My only...
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    Tacoma or 4Runner?

    FWIW, I looked hard at both and test drove a few of each through an arroyo with steep walls and a soft bottom at the west end of town when I was deciding - put both A-TRAC and CrawlControl through their paces. I eventually picked the 4runner and I'm very happy with it - the 4Runner's payload...
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    Bluetti

    Did you receive it? If so, how long did it take?
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    We need to do something.

    I'm sure the pit toilets filled themselves with trash bags and then filled the toilet shelters with more bags when the pits were full. Some of the pit toilets around here were shutdown for months while the FS tried to find someone who would clean them out. The signs are clear. People just don't...
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    How heavy is your overlanding JKU?

    WOW. Unbelievable. Glad you survived that.
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    How heavy is your overlanding JKU?

    yep. and the legal ramifications if there's an accident. But here's a question: Would you be willing to accept Australia-like GVWR enforcement in exchange to gain a path to upgrade a vehicle's GVWR?
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    How heavy is your overlanding JKU?

    I generally don't respond to threads like this, because mostly people will do as they wish with their vehicle and that's pretty much the end of the story. But in this case, I've started several responses and then deleted them for not wanting to wade in. Finally, I might post this one, NOT as a...