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  1. desertracer79

    Thoughts and opinions Please on RAM 1500 lift

    It's a 2017. Have you heard anything about those companies offering something in the future?
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    Thoughts and opinions Please on RAM 1500 lift

    Thanks very much for your opinions, I appreciate it greatly.
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    Thoughts and opinions Please on RAM 1500 lift

    Hello Ladies and Gentlemen, we're an overlanding family in So Cal that cover a lot of desert and mountain trails in our stock RAM 1500 tradesman 4x4. I've been looking at lift kits for awhile to run larger tires and increase our capability on rocky and rutted trails. For instance, we've run...
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    Weekend Wandering in the Mojave Desert

    We rose slowly the next day and enjoyed the canyon, the kids got to explore and we all went for a quick hike. We packed up and headed to our next spot to explore, an old camp called "Scout's Cove" From what I've read on the net it was created by miners a long time ago. It is an 8x10 room carved...
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    Weekend Wandering in the Mojave Desert

    The plan was to leave Helendale, CA on Saturday morning and do a ~100 mile loop through the high desert to explore some places I had wanted to see for a long time. The weather forecasted was to be warm but with sustained winds of up to 25 mph, that can really take the fun out of a trip but we...
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    Utah adventures via highway, dirt roads, slickrock and mud

    Last installment, only a few months late. From Moab, Utah we headed South towards Blanding. The plan was to drive a dirt road called Valley of the Gods and up onto a high plateau called the Moki Dugway. The Valley was awesome, there are large rock spires pointing straight up into the sky. From...
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    Utah adventures via highway, dirt roads, slickrock and mud

    Well yes there is actually, I've just been super lazy. If you're interested I could post the last few pics. In Zion we boarded our dogs at the Doggy Dude Ranch, they were great people. I found the spot we camped in DNF on google earth, it's basically on the map I posted earlier. Here's a trail...
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    Moving from Wrangler to Full Size maybe need advice

    I'm in the same exact boat. Got an '03 TJ that I crawl and overland with but it gets mighty cramped with the wife and dog. I've also just about reached my tolerance for windy nights in a tent. My upgrade plan (a few years down the road) is a 2nd generation Dodge 3/4 ton club cab with the 5.9L...
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    Utah adventures via highway, dirt roads, slickrock and mud

    So we left off last time as we were just arriving at the Sand Flats Recreation Area in Moab. We were able to get a spacious site with a cool view of the Fins n' Things trail. We did that trail early the next morning. I was surprised by the amount of side by sides on these trails, seems like...
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    Utah adventures via highway, dirt roads, slickrock and mud

    Thanks for the replies everyone. Here's a google earth overlay of the GPX file. We started at Kodachrome Basin SP and headed SE on Cottonwood Canyon Road to Horse Mountain Road to Death Ridge Road and were hoping to come out on Smoky Mountain Road into Escalante. After the three hour tour...
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    Utah adventures via highway, dirt roads, slickrock and mud

    So we left off at the bottom of a muddy hill we knew we could not get back up, it was just too slippery. Right about that time is started to rain and hail very strongly and the road just kept getting worse! What did I get us into ?!? We came to a point where the road had been washed out...
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    Utah adventures via highway, dirt roads, slickrock and mud

    So I left off last post with us on the Angels landing hike. Finally it quit raining later that afternoon and we hiked up to the observation point. It basically takes you from the valley floor all the way to the top and it's a ***** of a hike but totally worth it. Our friends arrived and it...
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    Utah adventures via highway, dirt roads, slickrock and mud

    We took this trip in April/May 2016 and although there were more highways and developed campgrounds than I wanted to* we still had an amazing time and managed to get in some good off road trails. On the trip with me (John) were my wife Kym and dog Sierra and our buddies Emily and Tyler. We drove...
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    Death Valley with the Tacoma - Thanksgiving weekend 2015

    I took a quick look for your rig on Saturday night but we pulled in kinda late. Looks like you had a great trip, ours too. I put together a trip report here: http://www.expeditionportal.com/forum/threads/151623-North-West-section-of-Death-Valley-Thanksgiving-2015
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    wrangler JK Trail Tool Bag

    Funny, I was just in Death Valley 2 weeks ago. I carried nearly all the tools that have been mentioned so far, including serp belt, u-joints, rad hoses, etc. I thought I had everything covered that could possibly break, but in the end, the only thing that got us out was the satellite phone I...
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