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Day 17: Skyline Drive to Strawberry Peak Nice hair-do and still showing evidence of where she face-planted in gravel somewhere along the way. Taking a break from having his face out the window. Local inhabitants - Hispanic shepherds. Descending again... and first view of...

Day 17: Skyline Drive to Strawberry Peak Thank you all for your kind comments! I try to do my best to stay up-to-date with the thread but life gets in the way sometimes. Fairly early in the day we finished Skyline Drive and turned East onto Hwy 9 and then back into the Uinta at the top of...

Day 17: Skyline Drive to Strawberry Peak After a long day before we took a slow morning. I walked around with our youngest at daybreak - she's an early riser - and saw a few elk and mule deer. Later my wife went for a run and I was supposed to feed the kids and pack up the car. After the...

Have a 2007 and love it. There is tons of info on advrider.com and thumpertalk. I don't have lots of experience with them as I'm a new owner. The gaskets were better after 2004 I think. Hopefully someone will correct me if I'm wrong. And the neutral sending unit screws tend to work themselves...

Day 16: Steeps to Skyline Drive, UT We found a nice camping spot in the Aspens near the Boulger Winter Sports area... and ended a great day back up in the mountains.

Day 16: Steeps to Skyline Drive, UT We kept soaring along this ridgeline for the rest of the day. It was amazing and we didn't really want to stop. The road was rough and slow-going at first but then we passed this sign and I looked in the rear view. I had to back up for a poser shot...

Day 16: Steeps to Skyline Drive, UT And finally we were up on Skyline Drive and the views kept unfolding. Skyline Dr basically traverses the main ridgeline of the Wasatch from south to north. This area, towards the south, was not well kept and receives little to no attention from...

Day 16: Steeps to Skyline Drive, UT Okay, I'm going to try to get us through this day. We covered so much variety in terrain and it was all so spectacular but it's hard to choose just a few photos . One more photo of ways we spend time outside of the car. So we left the play spot and the...

Thanks Greeni. I just checked out your album - you've had/do have some sweet rides. The photos of the rovers passing through that old cobblestone lane were awesome. Not much like that over here.

Yep, Go to the FAQ's at ih8mud and it will answer every one of your questions and then some. That's where I started after realizing the '65 Series 2a wasn't up to family duty. Still have the rover but I love my FZJ 80.

Day 16: Steeps to Skyline Drive, UT From Castledale we headed up to Joes Reservoir and then into the southern Wasatch mountains. It's amazing how much the landscape changed throughout the day. Often from far off these gravel roads look fine, smooth and fast. Some are like that but...

Day 16: Steeps to Skyline Drive, UT We soon made the San Rafael River and stopped for some lunch and to cool off in the river. The crossing was a nice little oasis and break from the driving.* We'd already put in some long slow hours but we still had some distance to make. We...

I love my 2000 BMW 325 wagon. It's been super reliable and I find it easy to work on. I found it in a 5spd which is fairly uncommon. It's seen a few dirt roads and performed well but you have to be very very careful not to drag on rocks. I've often thought that if I lived out west I'd want an XI...

Day 16: Steeps to Skyline Drive, UT It was beautiful in the canyon but very slow going. We kept checking our forward progress on the GPS and it felt like we weren't moving at all. The last major obstacle in the creekbed was unpassable to all but high-lifted crawlers or motos/atvs that...

Yes, Rabbit Valley is where we started. There are tons of trails that criss-cross that area making it confusing for an outsider. But it probably makes for lots of great exploring for locals. I'm jealous.

Day 16: Steeps to Skyline Drive, Boulger area Also knowing that this canyon had been a sacred place for the native Americans added to the solitary reverent feel of the morning.

Day 16: Steeps to Skyline Drive, Boulger area Having duct-taped and foamed and sealed the radiator as best as I could the day before I still wanted to try to get as far as we could before it got blazing hot. We woke up before 7 and were on the road just after 7:30. We thought about leaving the...

Oh, yes. It was getting dark quickly and we were all about to get eaten by mountain lions! I tried bleeding the system and as far as I can tell there is no captured air. Ouch - my reaction exactly. Hopefully it isn't although this was/still is something I'm worried about. There are no other...

Day 15: Moab - Green River - The Steeps While we were setting camp and cooking, the kids ran around and played on the surrounding hills. And I kept noticing this cool looking canyon about a half mile away. So with the sun quickly setting we went for a hike. The sun had...

Day 15: Moab - Green River - The Steeps Not having anything else to do but push try to find a place to camp, we decided to continue with our route but bypassed lots of interesting stuff in Moab. We'd been there before and run some of the popular stuff but we were hoping to do the White Rim and...