meet up, overland ish trip in hill country

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Fellow Texans, and anyone else here that wants to-
anyone interested in a sort of ranger group meet up and do a few back roads ? might be fun to meet some folks in person, see some nice scenery maybe get the grills going at night and camp fire. I was thinking some time in 2022 when its not too hot. here is what i had in mind. i stole the map from another group, overland journal or something like that. but its a nice area good dirt and gravel roads that any truck will handle (maybe not lowered). mixed with some highway and plenty of food and fuel near the route. some folks are referring to is as the Texas Hill Country overland trail. it is not really a trail it is a mix of farm and ranch roads. 99.9% of the land is private owned and no trespass, but public county and state roads. we would yield right away to farmers and ranchers of course. route has a couple easy water crosses and photo ops. if anyone is interested lets try to get it planned. :fistbump:

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a link to show some pics and info from a few years back.
https://expeditionportal.com/overland-routes-the-texas-hill-country/

the basic route

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I’d love to do this. Assuming my Ranger gets here in time, lol. I just got my VIN with a build week of 24 JAN. Its been forever since I e been camping and it would be fun to check out other peeps mods and whatnot. Ranger geeks unite!
 
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I’d love to do this. Assuming my Ranger gets here in time, lol. I just got my VIN with a build week of 24 JAN. Its been forever since I e been camping and it would be fun to check out other peeps mods and whatnot. Ranger geeks unite!
awesome! let us know when you get your ride
 
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nothing but crickets... maybe if we chose another place?
 


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Some other ideas could be beach camping at like Matagorda or even Arkansas.

I just got back from Northwest Arkansas and it's always so beautiful. I know there are a lot of trails there as well.
 
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Im open to ideas :). it looks like most of us that are interested are in Texas /Oklahoma. Maybe we could pick a spot in the Red River area that is closer to us and get more folks interested.
A spot on the Tex Homa border on 79 is open to the public for off road driving, camping etc. its basically all sand and a little mud.
 

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Im open to ideas :). it looks like most of us that are interested are in Texas /Oklahoma. Maybe we could pick a spot in the Red River area that is closer to us and get more folks interested.
A spot on the Tex Homa border on 79 is open to the public for off road driving, camping etc. its basically all sand and a little mud.
I'll be down for anything that isn't too extreme. I have an fx4 but it's stock suspension. I love camping and driving.
 
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I'll be down for anything that isn't too extreme. I have an fx4 but it's stock suspension. I love camping and driving.
your truck would have no problem at the red river spot. just put it in sand mode and it will buzz right along lol.
 
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well folks i was really looking forward to planning a little get together with some r5g folks but for now things are too hectic. however, folks feel free to use the thread and anyone who wishes to meet up and plan stuff please go for it. hopefully at some point i will be able to join in. if anyone is interested in the spots i had in mind let me know.
 

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What about a day trip to one of the central Texas off road parks? We could have a mini Ranger GTG. I’ve never done much off roading, might be fun with a lower time commitment. I think there’s one out towards Bastrop and there’s that one out 1431 towards Marble Falls.

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I’m in, we are working to build a bit of overland ranger did first try at Hidden Falls this weekend after getting suspension Done (still stock tires…) managed to do a a lot of the trails still and next plans is hill country and north padre but up for anything :) Attaching map of what we could do with fx4 with BDS 3.5 CO

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Nice. I was looking at their maps today wondering what I could do with my stock fx4 out there. I’ve never done any off reading really, just some ranch two tracks With some hills and limestone.

prob would stick to the 2 diamond trails and see how el Trucke manages. Better to be safe than sorry! What did you end up doing?
 

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Did some lvl 4 with rock/stair climb that was very much close to limit, was balanced on two wheels at one point and had to back down and do bypass a few times, stay to 1-2 and easy 3 if alone but a lot is doable but lift helped a lot. Some pics from trip :) the southern loop on map incl water cross is fun as easy, then up on mountain start ok 1-2s and eastern side NW is tough. A lot of hard obstacles have bypasses, but a few of bypasses are hard and steep :)

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