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Hi Ace, good to hear from you and look forward to seeing you on a trail again! We got a Discovery 5 - 7rs old, 90K miles, ready to start its life of adventure!

The final full-day on the trail had more interesting sites. Lava tubes Beautiful skies enhance the huge vistas on Soda Lake and the Traveler's Monument (ad hoc rock pile). Nearing the Afton end of the trail, as we went under a railroad bridge, we posed the vehicles beneath the bridge, and...

Post 2. Continued In settler days, the Army set up forts at water sources, and we took a little detour to explore the remains of Fort Piute. Fort Piute ruins When you come to a monument about the role of the railroad in California settlement, you have to stop. An interesting section...

It's good to have been doing an activity long enough that you can just pick up and go--or change tack and take another route. We were planning on a warm'ish-weather trip in southern Arizona during the New Year's break, but socio/economic/governmental issues with legal and illegal border...

Thanks for the reports and photos. Looks like some great times in beautiful country. Ace, good to see you are still adventuring!

IID tool has a function to toggle EAS on/off. Maybe you (inadvertently) turned it off and now need to re-enable. Just a longshot.

Hi James, look forward to seeing you - and your new rig - on the trail!

From there, the next stop was Hovatter home location. We had been here before, but it is such an interesting place with a sad history. The family built a home here and the wife was a botanist by hobby. The home burnt down and I recall that a daughter died from burns. Yet the many little touches...

I didn't bring my book of trail ratings on this trip, and thus far, we ended up taking a lot of more challenging trails. In retrospect, I think this was largely due to the fact that we wanted to explore places we hadn't been, and on previous trips, we tended more toward the 3-rated trails over...

Apologies for stringing this out. On previous posts, I'd reference shared images on Google photos, but that's not working. Image uploads are working, but now I'm running into upload limitations. Gonna finish it tonight. My wife and I had a couple trips through KofA under our belts, so we tried...

Got a tranche of photos to continue with this. Just like they always do, the bad trails just got worse. We handled the rocks OK, but some serious washouts convinced us to turn aound and retrace our steps to Red Cloud Mine and then take the intended route - Clip Wash Trail. This turned into a...

Hi, not on this trip, but on others. Agreed, Ajo is a great little town. We're heading through Ajo and Why on the way to Peurto Penasco next month!

Darn, that kind of negates the effort to put a trip report together. I replaced the (quicker and easier) photo links with uploaded photos. I'm guessing some privacy setting negated the photo URL references. Hope the photos show now.

The problem with sticking with a hobby for a number of years is that it gets difficult to find "new and different." We wanted to do some exploring and camping for the week after Christmas, but we have already done most of the trails and nearby destinations. Death Valley and KofA: been there...

If you happen to be a cyclist, an old brake cable works great for the sunroof drain - blunt end down the top of the tube and work it till it comes out the bottom.

beautiful colors - looks like a good trip!

Or an onboard compressor :-). Should have added compressor or power tank to the tire-focused list. I've tested a couple times, and the ARB compressor will do the job with the xjack.

Nice rig. I have an '05 LR3. It looks like a good kit. I like to start with the most likely thing to leave me stranded: flat tire. On mine, that means a good jack (hi lift and I just added an x-jack). With the hi-lift, I need the wheel-mate to lift from a wheel. Then I carry a couple jackstands...

I've done it a couple times using the process in the Bodsy's Brake Bible. So if that didn't work for you, I don't have anything to add. The epb pads are a pain - not looking forward to the next time.

Really enjoying your reports! Inspirational. I also appreciate the balance of fun offroading and historical background/research.