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We decided to do the Dusy-Ershim trail before we had even finished running the Rubicon. http://www.expeditionportal.com/forum/threads/115835-Rookies-on-the-Rubicon . If we could be successful here, why then, we'd run the Dusy. We were weary of the nearly constant challenge the Rubicon Trail...

I am planning on getting an iPad this week. The major driver for this purchase is to be able to do real-time nav and to study satellite images, to answer that persistent question, "I wonder where that road goes, it's not on the map". I can't carry enough gas or take enough vacation time to drive...

Part 3 - The Start So on Thursday the 5th of May, ready or not, my adventure began. The first night I spent at a rest stop near La Grand Oregon, and the second night on the road, was spent at Pine Lake Campground, near Powell Point. I was staged for an early start. I drove out of the...

The Mary Bullock Ranch (from the Grand Bench) OVERLANDING TO THE EXPO Part 2 - Preparation Over the next few months I became a little obsessed with Mary Bullock's Ranch and the deteriorating access road that wound down into Little Canyon Valley then twisted it's way back up the other side...

OVERLANDING TO THE EXPO My adventure, driving from Big Water to Moab on the way to the 2013 Overland Expo. Part 1 - The past begets the future. I discovered the Expedition Portal a few years ago, while chasing down the location of a captivating photograph taken in Southern Utah. I found this...

There are times in my life, when if I knew how hard something was going to be beforehand, I probably wouldn't have tried it in the first place. Caution would rule and I would be content reading about other, more capable or better equipped, people grinding it out. It is almost always good that I...