Recent content by aknightinak

I would try 4crawler.com. The site's an antique and doesn't list the Tundra, specifically, but he's a renowned Toyota guy, so I'd be surprised if he couldn't help you out. I had a set of his shackles on my T100. Everything about them was stout. 14, 16, or 18 mm? There's a good chance he has the...

I'm looking at won tons. I'd like to campground host, and my list of preferred sites basically goes from greatest to least infestation of brown bears, so I'd need a hard side camper that the Tundra would be hard pressed to carry. I miss my SASed T100 with an actual payload rating. The grayling...

Rig's not much worth bragging about, an 07 Tundra single cab that I'm in throes of deciding to repair or replace, and I'm still a tent-on-the-ground guy once I get anywhere. My IG isn't real populated, either, but I don't often camp where there's not a fishing opportunity.

I would rather have found a mallard—or better yet, a teal—in the door handle than a bath toy. I'd be stoked. Free lunch!

The 15" has slightly more sidewall and a more secure bead seat than a 16, pluses for off road. On road, the shorter sidewall of a 16 will stand the sidewall straighter (balloon it less) and may feel less mushy in corners than a 15, but up to a 33" height, I don't think you would notice much...

Last year, while visiting family out East, I came out of the ski lodge where my brother and nephews work to find a dime-a-dozen, dealer-modified JK next to my blatantly obvious rental eJeep and a unicorn duck hanging from the door handle by the business card of a local souvenir shop. I found it...

You found a pika! That's cool as all getout, might even be the coolest critter you've seen so far (and I only half joke). It's a species currently being hit hard by climate change, in particular, greening of the tundra and alpine. I've lived here 30 years and seen bears, moose, bears, moose, Big...

That's 40-Mile caribou country and an important harvest for folks in the area. The first permit hunt opens August 1 and the herd has a quota that sees it close it early many years. It is---a race to get meat. And if there is no closure, the matrix of permits and general hunts means it's open to...

This. Remote areas mean much much less in subscriber dollars, which translates to much much less support from any given provider. Some communities around here even fall under a "carrier of last resort" designation, which essentially means nobody wants to serve the place with telecomm...

Not truck camping, but deep remote spots for sure: I did fieldwork in False Pass (Aleutians) and Pelican (SE AK) this spring. False Pass has marginal talk and text service; Pelican has no cell service but for an occasional bar at the farthest point in town. StarLink was the only game in town in...

I bought into Klymit a few years ago with an Insulated Static V and then last year picked up the Insulated Double V. I like them both. The double inflates using the bag as a bellows and has a lower profile valve. The single inflates by lung in about 10 breaths. I've used both down to -20 F and...

I actually find the opposite fairly often, and it tends to happen more often renting from the smaller destination and dropping at the larger. My guess is that it has to do with distance between the two points and availability of the style of car at the dropoff. I'm surprised no one has...

Oil is one of those things that I think I would never not overbag the container, at least singly. Definitely not shatterproof by design, but Ball canning jars work for me, and the reusable, plastic lids they market for them seal up just fine, in my experience. I use one for oil and always have...

I'll cast another vote for 17s, but I'll do whatever I can to not lose sidewall height. I get all nostalgic and weepy when I see big meats on 15s.

This is pretty true. There are a lot of routes to off-grid sites, but not many that the average overland rig will be able to travel or would even want to travel. More people here build dedicated wheelers or buggies to actually go over land, and that being said, over time, more trails have become...