Recent content by MikeMGB

This is what I have, you could hang my Xterra off this thing, it's all you need for rear recovery.

I have the Coleman, I use frozen water bottles in it along with ice. The more bottles you can use the better. I've been out for 4 days and the bottles are still frozen and food in perfect condition.

Motion X or Gaia, I use both. I couldn't recommend one over the other, they are both excellent. Buy both and try them.

They both use the GPS in my iPad Mini, you don't need to be connected to 4G. You do need to pre-load the maps for the area you are going to.

My first back country trip since buying the Xterra last November, camping on a wide spot on a Forest Service road in the Mark Twain National Forest after a day wheeling the forest trails.

I use Motion X and Gaia. Both are easy to use, maps on Gaia use less space when downloaded. Gaia has more immediately available information onscreen, altitude, bearing, etc. but Motion X has a much cleaner interface if you just need a map. I use Gaia mainly when playing in the State Forests...

I use an iPad Mini in a universal tablet mount attached to the windshield with GPS Motion X Drive for street navigation and GPS Motion X for cross country. When I'm playing in the National Forests in Missouri I use Gaia GPS because that has the Forest Service MVUM maps available to download...

I think this may be my first post in this forum. I bought A 2000 extended cab 3.0 4x4 Ranger in 2003. For the next 10 years it was my daily driver, primitive camping vehicle, hunting truck and tow vehicle for the occasional broken down car and motorcycle. It never let me down and required very...