Yea man! Let’s get together. I wanna meet fellow ranger owners lol ?
I wish I was around more snow!! I love playing in it!! Good tires I believe go a long way for snow!I grew up in the snow and didn't own a truck or have 4WD. Did pretty good all those years!
You gotta start somewhere........
Throwin' iron!!! Tire chains for the win!
I get it. it's a complex enough thing to do with lots of little details that you can't just read about and understand.
Yeah, I won't pretend to know what magic the servers for this forum do along the way, but the end result is nowhere near what I see on my PC with the original file. You should be able to use the facebook link I provided, which does a reasonable job of reproducing. I think with the FB link you can even see the rain that was picking up as we did this section. A few minutes later it started coming down hard and then didn't let up very much for the next 24 hours. This was a remnant of the same storm that caused massive flooding in Nevada and Arizona. We got off easy with just a single washout. Here's a pic of the section that washed out about 30 minutes after we went over it.
How do you like telling that camper off road?Yeah, I won't pretend to know what magic the servers for this forum do along the way, but the end result is nowhere near what I see on my PC with the original file. You should be able to use the facebook link I provided, which does a reasonable job of reproducing. I think with the FB link you can even see the rain that was picking up as we did this section. A few minutes later it started coming down hard and then didn't let up very much for the next 24 hours. This was a remnant of the same storm that caused massive flooding in Nevada and Arizona. We got off easy with just a single washout. Here's a pic of the section that washed out about 30 minutes after we went over it.
Here we are going over it.
And here is why we went - after 24 hours of rain we hiked up above the lake and got this vista:
Frenchy - been getting out a lot more past few years into the backcountry - I always marvel at some of the off road places I've gone and seen RVs and campers, several in places where I'd be hesistant to even take my Ranger, as in up/down some pretty steep rugged and/or winding roads and some of these are not small units. Assume these folks know what their doing but have seen a couple of campers that looked like they couldn't get them out and there they stayed until next summer - this during hunting trips in late Oct.
Again, stop reading the manual, go out and do it.
This.
To me the time people waste making useless youtube videos is equally astounding, usually within the 1st 30 secs one can tell it's a loser.
Oh, man, we love it
We obviously can't drag the trailer all the same places we used to take the truck with a RTT, but we can get close and then drop the trailer. Nothing like having a real bathroom handy and a great shower if we're out for more than a couple of days. We pull the WDH bars and air the truck down pretty quickly after getting off-road unless it is an easy fire road. The only issue is the weight on a single "axle" means we can't do much on sand, mud or loose rock, but otherwise it pulls great on the trail (and we have a lot of toys to help us get unstuck when needed). The biggest advantage is, once we get to where we need to unhitch, we then have a very capable off-road truck that can fit through gaps and turns that would stop a full size truck, so we've yet to get stalled out of making it where we want to go.
Do you fish those alpine lakes or know if there are fish ? When I was in the Sierras in the 80s was told acidity had wreaked havoc with trout population in the alpine lakes. It's happened to a lesser extent in CO plus the DOW here quit stocking many of the alpine lakes with non native trout, so it's mostly greenbacks if they stock the lakes at all. I found a gem of a lake with native cutts this past summer, naturally reproducing and hiked in 4 times to fish it, beautiful rio grande cutts, up to 23" .Oh, man, we love it
