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I haven't done any serious off-roading yet, but I have gone on various off-road excursions since I got my Jeep (mud is nasty stuff to try and get out of a soft-top by the way) yet I still don't have any pictures. The problem is, once I'm actually off-roading, I generally don't stop to take pictures except for maybe a couple inside the vehicle. It's just way too much hassle for something you need to concentrate on while doing.
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Jan 29, 2008 07:59
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I really wish I had the money to buy this ($640): Garmin Colorado 400t Larger screen, longer battery life, more accurate, full 3D mapping, an entirely revamped interface (most of the controls are now wrapped into the new joystick) and tons of other awesome new features. If only they had a version (albeit more expensive) with a much larger screen so it could be more easily used in a vehicle.
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Feb 1, 2008 01:09
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I don't have tons of experience off-roading, but anytime I can get away with using 4wd, I do, and if I need to crawl, I put it into 4Lo; I see no reason not to as you aren't saving yourself anything by not doing so. That said, just yesterday on a Geology trip, I had to drive up a cell-tower access road, because the road cross-cuts a granodiorite outcrop that has two separate faults cross-cutting each other within the exposed outcrop. The road itself is barely wide enough to fit the Jeep, really steep and climbs about 1500 feet elevation all total; there's a vertical wall on one side and a vertical drop on the other (with a drop correlating to how far up you've climbed) and the road in most places leans slightly out towards the cliff, and is covered with slippery float from various other outcrops weathering from higher in the stratigraphy. Despite "just" being an access road, I threw it into 4Lo and let the Jeep crawl up it, and while I know there are plenty of people who could and would just fly up it in 2wd, I honestly don't see the reason why you would, especially considering the consequences should you hit an especially loose spot of float (even while crawling, there were spots where it got really loose).
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Apr 27, 2008 02:42
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BigKOfJustice posted::stuff about cleanups: BigK, can you shed some insight into exactly what these cleanups entail? I for the life of me, can't picture anything different than a bunch of guys slowly crawling along in Hummers, picking up wrappers and beer cans off a trail with one of those long sticks with a nail in the end. Despite being hilarious, the thought for whatever reason, brings up feelings of rage inside of me (don't know why).
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