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Day 1: Virginia City to Stillwater Wildlife Refuge Miles traveled: 142 Starting on October 11, I met up with a small group of folks Virginia City to head out on the 2,000+ mile Great Basin Heritage Trail over the course of 14 days. The trip would take us from Virginia City up to the Jarbidge...

This past week, we set out on another adventure to the 395 corridor in California, with our eyes set on the Sierra Crest. More specifically, the 250 mile Eastern Sierra Traverse that features some of the best views of the Eastern Sierra Crest that are accessible by a vehicle. Including myself...

Last month I had planned to spend 5 or so days exploring the Mendocino National Forest. Unfortunately, the Park Fire ignited near Lassen National Forest was growing at a rate of 100k acres per day during a Red Flag event. Learning from year's past, I looked at the wind patterns, and decided my...

The Pacific Crest Overland Route, the Continental Divide, the Trans-American Trail—most would agree, these are some of the classic long-distance overland tracks of North America. But what's North America's answer to Australia's most remote and desolate track—the Canning Stock Route? The Canning...

Most folks say the Pacific Northwest (PNW) starts at Oregon's southern border. However, there is a sizable contigent of people out there who say that PNW begins in the temperate rainforests dominated by coast redwoods in Mendocino County. The region certainly has that flannel, cruncy-granola...

A few Julys ago, we set out on the Lost Sierra 4x4 Trail with a small group of friends. I'd driven (or ridden on my mountain bike) the vast majority of this trail in bits and pieces, but never as one cohesive route. In an effort to spice things up a bit, I decided to alter the original route and...

My buddy Andreas and I had been planning our 10 day trip for the last several months. After hemming and hawing over visiting the North Rim of the Grand Canyon, I decided we'd change it up and head to the Klamath Mountains that straddled NW California and SW Oregon. The Klamaths have similar...

In late spring, I led a small group of folks along OTG's 180+ mile Mogollon Rim Discovery Trail. With plans to follow up our Mogollon trip with Sedona, this was the perfect warmup for a 10 day adventure through some of northern Arizona's most breathtaking landscapes. After the Grand Canyon...

We were in the throes of what would qualify as an average winter in Northern California. But after 10+ years of severe drought, it seems that most of us have forgotten what a normal winter feels like. It means significant amounts of snow in the mountains, and numerous winter storms delivering...

Selling my 2009 Lux Cruiser, which has been a fantastic overlanding / expedition vehicle. I purchased the vehicle in fall 2019 with 98k miles in bone stock condition and built it out from there. It's super reliable, rugged, and quite capable off road. I needed more space so I went to a full...

About 1.5 weeks, I had invited a group of friends out to the Downieville / Lakes Basin Area to hopefully take on the Lost Sierra Trail and capture some video along the way. Well, the Dixie fire wasn't having any of that as her smoke continued to bellow into the atmosphere and creep southward...

Hey folks, I'm in a Land Cruiser 200 (LX variant) at the moment, and looking to upgrade to a full size truck in the next year for the sake of extra storage (given current wait times, can you blame me for planning ahead!), improved MPG (diesel or hybrid), and the ability to hang out inside my...

A couple of weeks back I took my land cruiser and 6yo up to California's Redwood Coast. The plan was to explore the Redwoods, Smith River NRA, and some of the backroads in Humboldt County that I'd read about in various guide books. Unfortunatley, many of the backroads that I were previously...

The weekend before the long Thanksgiving weekend (plus a few extra PTO days), myself and two friends drove down from the SF Bay Area to the Sonoran Desert in Southern Arizona to explore the Kofa Wildlife Refuge, which is commonly referred to simply as "Kofa Wilderness". Kofa is simply an...