Overlanding
Ok so I did my first real overlanding trip with a bunch of fellow overlanders a couple of weeks ago, I.E. no onsite provided facilities power, water , ect.
Convoyed out of town with this other Nissan Frontier.. got to use my newly installed CB radio on the long trip...It was an added bonus being able to communicate truck to truck to pass the time and know when and where to make pit stops.
Prior to leaving I did my due diligence in prepping and packing making various to-do and to-bring lists on the "Google Keep" app on my phone.
Water , Tools , Extra Gas , Bug Spray , and on and on.
After arriving at camp unpacking , setting up my Kelty Noah's Tarp, ect. The sun was starting to set and the bugs where starting to come out. So I went to grab the duffel bag of clothes that I packed, to change out of the cut-off jean shorts I was wearing and put on some long pants. This is when I realized I forgot my duffel bag packed full of extra clothes and personal items , soap, deodorant ,toothbrush, tooth paste. I had nothing but the jean shorts , t-shirt , and socks I was wearing. Fortunately I did have rain gear , jackets , and boots. So I threw on a jacket and called it good.
My fellow overlanders had a very good laugh at my brain fart (forgetting all my clothes)
I spent the night sleeping in the bed of my truck (Short Bed that is) under the protection of my Leer camper shell / topper.
This has been a work in progress dialing this in , I am about 5'10" in height and I sleep at an angle in the truck bed , head at one corner , feet in the other corner.
Woke up in the AM and we all went to gas up our trucks at the back woods country gas station where I proceeded to purchase some extremely expensive items , socks , tooth brush and tooth paste. I then proceeded to brush my teeth in the parking lot. This provided more entertainment for my fellow overlanders.
Ok all gassed up and off to the trails most of the group went in the woods on an unknown trail that looked pretty nasty on google earth, while me and my truck "The Moose" and a New Jeep Rubicon Hard Rock went down the main forest service road where the trail that the others went on would exit. This is where we (myself and the rubicon) went in on the trail. The plan was to meet the others head on somewhere mid point on the trail.
Of course pics do not do the trail justice...The trail was muddy with large rocks and stumps to navigate thru. Rock sliders and skid plates took some hits.
Well we kept going and going down the trail it kept getting nastier and nastier finally myself and the rubicon decided enough is enough and decided to stop. I could hear some of the ham radio traffic from the other group, (only the high power hams).
Some of the messages I could hear from the other group where things like , get the traction boards , So and so is winching ect.
Uncertain of where the other group was and how close we where to meeting them (head on) , on the trail I tried to radio the
other group with a small hand held ham radio I had but they could not hear me. So I sent my friend in the other group a text message with a "google share your location" and apparently they where not to far down the trail.
Like I stated above me and the jeep rubicon had enough, so I grabbed a pen and a piece of paper and wrote out a note: "THIS IS WHERE CARL AND THE RUBICON STOPPED AND TURNED AROUND " I then hung the note from a tree branch in the middle of the trail.
So we turned around headed back to the main forest service road.
Ahh we made it...dry land
The others soon followed.
More to come.
To be continued.......
