Adventioneering

“This doesn’t work anything like minecraft”.

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So after going around and around on this for weeks, I finally ordered a new bumper (pictured). The problem is the front frame rails on the JK are a lot different than the TJ, and results in some weird bumper situations, especially when you want a winch. With the TJ, you can run out and [...]

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Sometime in the electronic bronze age of the 90s, Garmin came out with an application called MapSource. Relatively progressive at the time, this was a map and waypoint manager that allowed you to view your Garmin map product on a PC. This was a disruptive app and probably was a reason a lot of prosumer [...]

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The group disbanded after breakfast and everyone headed home (or at least, to Denny’s for pancakes). Instead I went east over the pass in search of something different. Earlier I had been researching a road network north of Cashmere after randomly stumbling on Nahahum Canyon in the summer of 2011 while riding around on the [...]

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The plan they proposed was to hit up Beckler for New Years’s. With a forecast of lows in the 20s and 70% chance of snow, it sounded like the perfect time to be outside. We headed up in the early morning and I was able to make easy contact on 2 meter with my bodge [...]

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What do we have here? I had never heard of these things until my brother got me one as a gift. For years humans marveled upon fire, but perhaps we were not civilized until we figured out how to keep an actual fire in our pocket. I give you the Jon-E, ostensibly a hand-warmer. For [...]

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Now, this is how you do it. For those of you not familiar with the FF, this is Ferrari’s upcoming 4wd car. There’s a neat video of the mule making the rounds during testing below. I wonder what the latest tire tech for snow is? Last I ever remember, it was always the Blizzaks but [...]

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May 25 – May 28 2012. Taking advantage of the three-day weekend, I figure one day down and one day return, so two days in the BRD area to explore the region. The playa should still be lake-like but travel around the edges, or in the numerous tracks in the area should be possible. Chilly [...]

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You just have to be in the right spot, since I reason it’s always snowing somewhere. With an upcoming camping trip being planned and a lot of hypotheticals being thrown around about the suitability of some of the classic spots for early-winter camping I thought the simplest thing would be to just go and see. [...]

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