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Great trip report, fantastic way to live! I'm curious if the tire chains played nice with the Maxtrax. It's pretty common to chain up out here and I'd hate to invest in a set of Maxtrax to have them trashed up...

My cred: I'm schooled as a chemist. You're half right; salt water freezes at a lower temperature but most certainly does not melt at a higher temperature. There are very few things in this universe with that property, and they're all perform this feat at very extreme conditions (thousands of...

Also, quit yer snivelin' and sleep under a tarp. And sit on the ground, goldurnit. Coffee grounds straight into a pot of boiling water makes coffee, why would you do anything else? Snivel kit is for the weak and you're not really camping if you're comfortable and enjoying yourself.

I'm not an expert, but every other service I've bumped into prohibits transmitting on radios not approved for that service/band/whatever.

...which is fine if you're a dweller of the US *and* get the rest of your crew to play along. The rest of us don't (legally) have access to anything but 2W handhelds with permanent antennae, or something very much like it. So that leaves us with 2M, which blows that option out of the water...

I picked up a couple that look...experienced...a couple years back for $20. Gave one to a buddy and kept one. Use it every time and it works great and packs down nice and square for easy transport. I like it better than a propane stove.

I'm surprised nobody mentioned freezing your meat. We freeze everything (steak, burgers, stew, chili, etc), pack it in a cooler and eat it as it defrosts. For certain adds a day or more to your raw goods.

05 WK (4.7L) here, and it's pretty much stock at this point. I've been waiting before I invest in modifications. Am considering a modest lift and more armour underneath. 4xguard.com has specialized in the WK/commanders from that period. I bought a rear ladder from GobiRacks because climbing the...

Pff. Tell that to the old buggers rag-chewing about their latest medical procedure, on both points. *That's* why people under the age of 50 thing HAM is for losers.

These both strike me as completely irrelevant, but I may be looking at it from a different angle. Just because CB/GMRS radios are ubiquitous doesn't mean that they're appropriate for the job. Do your wife/kids roll in their own vehicles, separated from the pack by distances and terrain that...

That's almost exactly where we landed, assuming by "short-range" you mean "I can see the other vehicle". We were less than 1km from the haul vehicle across a treed valley and we had poor comms with the GMRS radios. On previous trips with us convoying down the highway we would lose contact if...

I'm gonna pile on late here. We did a 5 day trip earlier this month that required a scout vehicle (my stock WK) run the road/trail/track ahead of a truck pulling a 5th-wheel horse trailer, followed by hikers trailing a horse train, and then the reverse. We used 2m and GMRS radios during this...

I'd second that sentiment; if you're going to be spending any time in a climate where it actually rains you'll want a fly that goes all the way to the ground. You'll find that this "top hat" style is going to leave you wet sooner or later. One of the other upsides of a full fly is that you can...

Or you could keep your 4 until it fails and roll the hundreds into something else...

Hah! I was just dropping into this thread to throw that one out. We bought one last year after tons of research. It's a solid piece of gear from a company that knows tents. It goes up pretty quickly with one person once you've learned the drill and even faster with two. Lots of room and...

My wife is terrified of that sort of thing, and insists on a monitor so she can hear the wee one breathing. SIDS seems to hit kids from fat, smoking, drinking families, and there's a strong chance there's a genetic component. Also, once they're a year old, the chance goes to nearly zero. We...

We were out at Radium Hot Springs this last week, down around 3-5C overnight. She's 15 months old, and has been sleeping in her own crib since she was 10 months. We put her in a play-cage, with a couple of big fuzzy blankets. Momma wrapped her in her fleecy pants and top over tights and a...

It also gives an opportunity to teach the difference between mala in se and mala prohibita; that which is bad in and of itself, and that which is bad because it is proscribed to be so. If you're of that kind of philosophical bent, that is. Probably better for older kids as exploration of why...

Irrelevant comparison. Unbelted kid on your lap playing at driving does not mean they are of the same cohort as the 13/year that die from airbags. That number doesn't even actually reflect the reality of each circumstance, but I'd be willing to bet that *none* of them involved the activity...

Why would you, as a responsible parent, create a scenario where that could happen? This entire thread has been about doing "dangerous" things under controlled conditions and this isn't really any different. Deserted parking lots. Country roads. Keep it below 15kph. You've got the gas and...