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 :-)
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...
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...
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...
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)
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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?
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...
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