Etoimos
Adventurist
Hey everyone, my name is Keith and I started my offroad life in 2013 when we bought a used Jeep Wrangler Unlimited Rubicon (JKUR in Jeep terms). The family and I spent many years doing weekend Jeep trail runs with others here in Colorado. During those years I build our Jeep to be a very capable rock crawler. Around 2016/17 I began to discovered that I liked doing the easier more scenic trails as apposed to the 4 mile, 6 hour, broken parts kinds of trails. I guess this is when you can say I became an "overlander". I started to add some mods to the Jeep that would facilitate this kind of adventuring. They JKUR was not the best choice for overlanding, so we eventually bought a 2019 Off Grid Trailers Expedition 2.0. That was a great addition to our setup, but highlighted even more limitation of the JKUR... it was not built to tow here in the mountains of Colorado. When the Jeep Gladiator came out I picked up a Rubicon version and it handled the trailer much better. Unfortunately, the truck itself turned out to be smaller than I expected for overland trips. With only a 5 foot bed and about 18 inches of bed height, it only lasted about two years in our family. To replace it we bought our current rig, a 2022 RAM Power Wagon and so far it has been great as both an adventure vehicle and a daily driver. If you are interested in any of the builds of these setups, just PM me and I'd be happy to send you a link to the build thread for each. You can find the Power Wagon build right here on AA.
The adventures I'll share in this thread will be from all of those different setups. I'll post them chronologically, so the wording and/or tense might seem a little off at times. To help organize this thread some, I am including a table of contents in this first post. I'll update each entry with a hyperlink to where that adventure starts in this thread. Some adventures will be a single post and some will span multiple posts.
Our Adventures
Three Generations in Death Valley - California - JKUR + RTT + Jeep trailer
Wild Horses of Sand Wash Basin - Colorado - JKUR + RTT
Very Large Array - New Mexico - JUKR + RTT
Lyrid Meteor Shower - Colorado - JKUR + OGT Expedition 2.0
Its Utah Jim - Utah - Gladiator + OGT Exped 2.0
Hunting NEOWISE - Wyoming - Gladiator + OGT Exped 2.0
Grama Goes Camping - Colorado - Gladiator + OGT Exped 2.0
Granby Fall Colors - Colorado - Gladiator + OGT Exped 2.0
Overland Expo Mountain West 2021, By Air? - Colorado - Gladiator + OGT Exped 2.0
Fall Camping with Co-workers - Colorado - Gladiator + OGT Exped 2.0
The Great Western Loop - Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, Oregon, Nevada, Utah - Power Wagon + OGT Exped 2.0
The adventures I'll share in this thread will be from all of those different setups. I'll post them chronologically, so the wording and/or tense might seem a little off at times. To help organize this thread some, I am including a table of contents in this first post. I'll update each entry with a hyperlink to where that adventure starts in this thread. Some adventures will be a single post and some will span multiple posts.
Our Adventures
Three Generations in Death Valley - California - JKUR + RTT + Jeep trailer
Wild Horses of Sand Wash Basin - Colorado - JKUR + RTT
Very Large Array - New Mexico - JUKR + RTT
Lyrid Meteor Shower - Colorado - JKUR + OGT Expedition 2.0
Its Utah Jim - Utah - Gladiator + OGT Exped 2.0
Hunting NEOWISE - Wyoming - Gladiator + OGT Exped 2.0
Grama Goes Camping - Colorado - Gladiator + OGT Exped 2.0
Granby Fall Colors - Colorado - Gladiator + OGT Exped 2.0
Overland Expo Mountain West 2021, By Air? - Colorado - Gladiator + OGT Exped 2.0
Fall Camping with Co-workers - Colorado - Gladiator + OGT Exped 2.0
The Great Western Loop - Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, Oregon, Nevada, Utah - Power Wagon + OGT Exped 2.0
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