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Last weekend two friends and I wanted to get up in the mountains and it seemed like a good time for a snow trip. We ran the Corral Hollow trail off of highway 4 from the east side to the west side so that we encountered the higher elevation and more difficult section first to get an idea of the...

I'm a few months late posting this trip report, but in August friends and I re-visted the Shaver Lake area and ended up driving out to the end of the road near the crest of the Sierras. Summary This is a mostly easy route that gets you way back into the Sierras and feels very remote, though you...

A few weekends ago some friends and I explored the Shaver Lake area. I had been to Courtright Reservoir and run part of the Dusy Trail before, but I had not been on any of the trails around Shaver. We were amazed at the size of the scar from the 2020 Camp Fire, and what we saw was only a small...

I have not actually built this, but wanted to share it in case others are interested. Batteries: $250 for 4 3.2v 100A LiFePo4 modules https://batteryhookup.com/products/new-battery-hookup-lifep04-32650-3-2v-5000mah-cells-1 Add a 4S LiFePo4 BMS for ~$75 Put the whole thing in a case of some...

I made some basic spill kits to give to a couple friends for the holidays and figured I'd share here. This is something I've meant to do for a while, and after a friend's truck leaked power steering fluid on a trail this summer I felt motivated to buy the supplies. After thinking about it I...

To start, I should mention that this system of trails has multiple names. Depending on the source it may be called the Pardoe Trail, Carson Emigrant Trail, Squaw Ridge Trail, or Hungaleti Ridge Trail and may be marked as 17E24 or 16E26. A couple of the trails were closed for several years as...

Here are some details on my ham radio install in case anybody finds them useful. I'm a member of our local CERT group and also part of a local emergency communications group that works closely with the fire department. I went with the VX-71 because several members of the group have this radio...

For the past 15 years or so I've used an Akro-Mils box with a split folding top to hold my cooking gear. It nests into the back of my 4Runner perfectly and has held up to hundreds of miles of dirt roads and dozens of trips, but I've never been completely happy with it since the lid does not seal...

While being stuck at home sheltering in place I've been going through my camp kitchen gear. I've never been completely satisfied with our current set of plates and bowls since they don't nest well and have been looking into options, and I'm interested in hearing what the rest of the OB community...

A few weeks ago some friends and I planned to explore Strawberry Pass which runs between highways 50 and 88 south of Lake Tahoe, but the trail was closed due to a fire. So instead we decided to head a little ways into the Rubicon and play around on the slabs. We had three goals in mind: 1...

Recently I purchased an ARB 12v dual compressor to replace the Viair compressor currently in my Tacoma. My primary goal is to reduce the time it takes to air up after running a trail, and my secondary goal is jealousy since a friend recently bought one of these. Over the years I have...

A while ago I bought a used shell for my Tacoma and quickly discovered that finding things at night in a dark shell is not a lot of fun so, I decided to add some LED lights. My requirements were reasonable price, a warm color temperature (I really dislike bright white lights in camp), dimmable...

I recently purchased a ClampTite tool (ClampTite) to add some low profile hose clamps to my air hose setup. This is a pretty cool little tool that could be very useful for various types of trail repairs, and in fact I'm thinking of adding it to the tool kit in my truck. I already carry bailing...

(Here's the backstory, skip on down below if you are just interested in the truck.) My wife and I have used a SUV (first a Jeep ZJ, then a 3rd gen 4Runner) as our primary wheeling/camping vehicle for many years. After having our first child we realized that the extra space taken by the car seat...

OverlandBound.com consistently has by far the slowest page load speeds of any forum I visit. According to the stats in the footer the average thread listing takes ~5s to render and requires 8-10k database queries. This is an absolutely crazy number of queries to render a single page. I'm...

I might have posted the original thread in the wrong section, so I'm cross linking it here. https://www.overlandbound.com/forums/threads/ca-stanislaus-national-forest-highway-4-area-on-4-28-2018.14491/#post-217301

Two friends and I are doing a day trip to the Stanislaus National Forest off of highway 4 on Saturday 4/28. Our general plan is to run the Sourgrass Trail and then if time allows to explore Board's Crossing, Calaveras Big Trees, and other dirt roads in the area. Or, we could go farther up 4 and...

Overview The Pardoe Trail in the El Dorado National Forest was closed in 2012 as part of the "42 Trails" lawsuit. While the lawsuit has luckily been resolved in our favor this trail and several others are still closed pending action by the forest service. This lawsuit is a good example of how...

This weekend some friends and I were planning to run the Deer Valley trail, but then a winter storm warning was issued and we decided to change our plans. Instead we headed up to the Bear Valley area and ran Corral Hollow and Mattley Ridge. There are other write ups for Corral Hollow on this...

This weekend I did an inventory of my truck and decided to take some pictures for my own reference and to share on this site. These are items that are always carried in the truck, with a general goal of trying to keep the weight reasonable while providing a high level of usefulness for vehicle...