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I recommend you switch from using Crocs (or any similar type shoe) when using a RTT. If you have any dew/rain/moisture on the steps those will not grip and you can suddenly become airborne (it ain't the fall that gets you but that sudden stop at the bottom).

While mine's a 2015 I love my Titan. I will say that the Decked system is my FAVORITE upgrade. It will stay in this truck as long as I own it and any future truck will get one immediately after purchase. Also Decked as a company goes above and beyond with customer service so I can't say...

Got back from the ID BDR last week. Total of 5495 miles from San Antonio to the Canadian border and back. Two on-trail modifications that I made was an adjustment to the passenger side step brackets, instead of being straight going out from the body they now have a lovely swooping angle to the...

Well the trip keeps on giving. It appears that my 70,000 mile truck is now in need of front shocks. I can't imagine the BDR caused them to go out but apparently helped them on their way. I pulled the tent/rack/water-fuel cans, etc from the bed and the rear shocks seem fine. However it now...

Just finished a trip from San Antonio, TX to the Canadian border. I upped the subscription to the highest level so I could text my wife as much as I (or she) wanted. I also set it to track every 2 minutes so it kept a close eye on me in the boonies.

Cardboard acts just like fine sandpaper.

This issue with Burnt Knob is not really how narrow it is although that's an issue if you're going up and someone else is coming down. The major problem is how rocky it is. Like I mentioned, I hooked one rock big enough that it bent the braces for my passenger side step. Driller went up it...

Here’s the link to the IDBDR page: https://ridebdr.com/IDBDR Unfortunately they haven’t updated anything since June and lots may change between what we’ve reported here and how things will be when you make your trip. Probably the biggest concern will be fires or logging activity. We went...

Our final night on the BDR was spent next to water again. MartyZ stayed with us until we hit pavement in Clarkfork then he headed back to his home in Moscow, ID. FrenchieXJ and I were now mostly on paved roads for the last stretch. We had met a fellow traveler on the 2nd or 3rd day that said...

After Trail Seeker headed home he loaned his GPS to us and that put me in the lead. I kept us headed north until we found a huge patch of Thimble Berries (also known as Red Caps) and Frenchie had to stop and get a couple of handfuls. Later we stopped in the forest and I located this Survey...

At this point of the route Trail Seeker and Marie Laveau headed south as well and it was just me and FrenchieXJ for the next night. We found a nice spot just south of Pierce and planned on meeting back up with MartyZ the next day. The plan was to meet at the Grandad Bridge boat ramp on...

At this point of the trip driller headed south and the rest of us headed to the Lolo Motorway. This was the main route Lewis and Clark used headed toward the Pacific. Once you get across Magruder you're on pavement for quite a ways so to celebrate getting back on dirt we stopped at the Lochsa...

We spent the night half way across the Magruder Corridor. This road separates 2 large wilderness areas. To the south is the Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness and to the north is the Selway-Bitteroot Wilderness. While the scenery is spectacular it is unfortunately marred by the...

MartyZ headed home for a few days at this point and we moved on to Florence. My notes and my pictures are both lacking at this point so I'll start on the Magruder Corridor. The main road across the Corridor is not particularly bad but we did wind up passing a lot of traffic. There was one...

Since we didn't want to mortgage the farm to buy gas in Burgdorf we took a detour into Riggins to fill up the tanks before heading on towards Florence. You'll notice there's a lot of pics of my dash. It's not as clean now though.

Pictures of Burgdorf Hot Springs are apparently some of the ones I can't seem to download. If you don't need gas don't buy it here - $6/gallon. Pricey if you don't need it but priceless if you do. Here's some basic scenery pics.

We spent the night near water again. This time next to the S Fork of the Salmon River. This was one of the few spots where we were actually sharing the camp site with another party. A couple on a 4 wheeler with their dog was tent camping just up from us. Their tent was there when we...

We made Yellow Pine, which is the end of Section 2, just before lunch the next day. At this point we were trying to hook up with MartyZ a friend of mine from college. By texting my wife via the Garmin InReach I was able to determine he was headed our way but he was out of cell range to tell us...

Each night we went to bed thinking that it was fairly warm and each morning we woke up in the mid to low 40's. It got to the point where I was wearing a watch cap and heavy wool socks to bed each night. Now that I'm home in it's in the 90s by 10am I'm missing those cold mornings. Day 2 was...

After we set up camp we enjoyed the murmur of the babbling brook punctuated a bit later by the sounds of my other hobby, a classic military vehicle. A gentleman and his a load of kids drove by in a 1956 Dodge M37 repowered by a military diesel engine. I own a M37 but had never seen one with...