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Ski3pin, Those are excellent pictures of Butte Valley. Looks like you went in and out Warm Springs Road. From our home, it is much shorter to go through Goler Wash both in and out. You were there during some gorgeous weather. Butte Valley isn;t too bad even in summer. A 8 years back we did it...

James, get the 3/4 ton. You owe it to your own safety and others on the road. You need to be able to stop. If you load your truck over payload with Tundra (which you will), have an accident and someone is hurt, you will be considered "in neglect". The damages will be huge. Chevy, Ford or...

Brakes. Really nice to have. Good choice getting a 3/4 ton.

Avoid I5. I always recommend taking the one day San Juan River rafting trip out of Bluff Utah. Wild River Expeditions is the company. Those who have done this trip always tell me it was one of their high points. You get petroglyph panels, cliff dwellings, awesome geology and a great lunch...

I've owned lost of different stoves over the years. I think all the current Colemans are Chinese made now. Even the classic white gas stoves! Somehow Coleman and China doesn't sit well with me. I believe Primus might still be made in the USA at least they were a year or so ago when I was...

Antelope Island State Park may work for you as it is 30 minutes from the junction of I84 and I15. Open all year but the entrance closes at 5:30 in the winter. Spent a night and day there last weekend and had the CG to myself. Nice hike around the point and back from the CG about 4 miles round...

I've been studying all this subject (bio antro, cultural anthro, linguistics, archaeology etc)the last few years at our community college. We've been lucky to have the highly accomplished Dr. Matt Curtis from UCLA who spends his summers in the digs of Africa and teaches here in winter. Most of...

Wonderful pictures, thank you.

Grimes Point Archeology Site Road. I believe you can camp at the Hidden Cave Parking area where there's an outhouse (nothing says you can't spend the night). There are other spots further out the road but I'd be sure and do that in the daylight. These are just some starters off the top of my...

March/April trip? Join us in Baja 1st week of APRIL 2013 for a whale trip: http://youtu.be/FMZ6ClK71kU

My friend Phil, has an ATC shell model on his 4 cylinder, manual trans Tacoma. We do a lot of trips together and he always gets to wherever I am going. Yes, I do have to slow down for him at times, but he gets there. Phil has Deaver springs on the back, other than that it is basically stock...

Reading all this, I remember the days of carrying gas cans along. Makes me so happy to now have a 34 gallon fuel tank and 19 to 20 mpg. When someone comes out with a smaller diesel truck, I may buy one, hopefully it'll have an appropriate sized fuel tank.

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I used to use NATO cans. I'd bring them back from Europe in my suit case. They were about $30 each, never leaked, even on their sides and had great spouts. I had 9 of them. Then, once I bought my current truck with over 600 miles range on the tank, I sold all but two of the cans on Craigslist...

haha, I'm convinced. Don't know what I was thinking when I wrote the original post. Glad to have everyone bring me to my senses. Highway 1 it will be. Now you have me green with envy! Off-season in the redwoods, what a dream! Prairie Creek State Park has that wonderful beach campground, "Gold...

This is an excellent point. I know NOTHING about shocks...barely know how they work...I've got the stock shocks on my truck... BUT I spent over 30 years doing research and development and nothing else, and what it takes to come to correct conclusions is something I know A LOT about. An "n" of...

I think that you've been unfair to the Bilsteins. Had you put the replacements on and in short order failed them too then I'd understand going back to twin-tubes. Condemning them because of the failure of one set that could have easily been a QA/QC problem with the pair is not a valid test...

Pro Comps 9000 or Ranchos 5000, either work well and both have provided good service for me.

Hi ThinAir, Thanks for your comments, but actually, to travel longer excursions, thousands of times in the same time period would be faster velocity, not slower. I rarely ever bottom my stock suspension and never so on washboard. In reference to modifications, in my many years as a pro mechanic...

If you've come all the way out west to California, I'd say you gotta' take Hwy 1. Insanity to miss the California Redwoods. Oregon Coast is nice and you certainly should spend some time there but the added handful of hours you'll spend taking California's most beautiful route (Hwy 1) rather than...

Looking at the video, I have few more newbie questions. What does it cost to go whale watching? How did you select your guide? What does the typical campsite cost? Do I assume almost every transaction is in cash? Do I load up at the border or can I get cash as needed? Sorry for the...

Everything SunMan says +: Consider crossing at Calexico and follow the Sea of Cortez route, staying at Gonzaga Bay and joining Mexico 1 farther down. This bypasses TJ, and the worst of the Baja towns. The best of Baja starts just south of this junction. The route I recommend is some of the very...

I have decided that a GM extended cab long box will be the way to go for me. Probably 3500 over the 2500. The extra capacity might be a blessing down the road or for resale. How about the gearing? 3.73 or 4.10? I don't plan on beating up my new truck so I will be doing mild off road travel...

Truck Camper Magazine online is having their photo contect at which you are invited to vote on. Some of the members here have photos in the contest. Check 'em out: http://www.truckcampermagazine.com/time-to-vote:-2013-tcm-calendar-contest/

How are the boots on the shocks melting I am not understanding. When the shocks overheat, the boots melt off.