That was definitely the idea. Since we had planned to stay 14+ days living out of our Gladiators we wanted to have the right gear to be comfortable. Two of the Gladiators had 2 people and three people living out of them. 80% of our route was going to be on dirt making the only times we dipped...
That is our new Summit Series Bumper for the Jeep Gladiator. We just made our final changes and will be shipping them within 1 month. We'll be introducing them here in this thread and giving you guys first dibs on purchasing them. This trip was a big part of running them through the paces to see...
As we came down Imogene the sun was beginning to set. We decided it would best to try and find a decent spot to park the JTs and setup camp for the evening. After all the steaks were calling!
Our Cruise Through Stoney Pass, Colorado in Jeep Gladiators
A GoPro timelapse of our trip on Stoney Pass, Colorado as we made our way to an evening camp spot. We were using this trail to connect over to Lake City to jump on the main Continental Divide route.
I would say the trails that we did Black Bear and Imogene didn't require the suspension setup we had but they definitely made the ride a hell of a lot more comfortable. I've been on these trails in a FJ on coilovers and the ride was night and day.
The rest of the Continental Divide trail was...
Check out this link to learn a little more about the Smuggler-Union Hydroelectric Power Plant - https://coloradoencyclopedia.org/article/smuggler-union-hydroelectric-power-plant
We arrived at the trail head for Black Bear Pass where we pulled off to air down all our vehicles. Heading up the trail we came across a large group of sheep enjoying their lunch on the mountain wildflowers and grass.
As we made our way down the mountain towards the switch backs we came across...
Here's a few photos taken with my iPhone of our stay up at Clear Lake. That morning was a special one waking up to such a beaufiful sight hidden the night before by darkness. The lake was so calm that it provided an excellent reflection of our vehicles and mountains. The drive anticpation grew...
We arrived late at our camp spot just west of Silverton. Clear Lake is beautiful spot located at 12,000 ft. We met up with Ray from Exploration Outfitters that evening and called it early so we could wake up and get on the road to Black Bear Pass and Imogene. When we rolled in that evening we...
That was the hard part. Most of the 80% off roading that we did was very remote even for California Standards (out in the deserts). The other factor we believe was that the infrastructure for some of these states, Montana, Wyoming and parts of Norther Colorado just didn't have towers up/or they...
We got back Friday Morning pretty late. Since we spent most of our time off road we had service very infrequently. When we did reach usable service we did our best to push out photos to our social channels so everyone could get updates.
All our photos are finished so we'll begin posting here...
Repainted the propane tann
Can you recommend a good spot to park a trailer in Silverton when we do Black Bear Pass. One of our party members is bringing a Patriot Trailer.
New interior rack and bed layout for this weeks trip. Increased our range with 3 qty three gallon Rotopax gas containers, 2 qty 2 gallon water containers (one drinking and one for washing), new KC HiliTES Flex dust lights and cyclones for work lights off the back of the tailgate.
We cleared off the passenger side of the exterior of the rack so that we could run a new setup that included two Pelican cases, 1 for medical supplies and the other for water filtration. In the middle we're running a Powertank propane mount which is being used to power one of the Jetboil Genesis...
We've mounted up the weboost Drive 4G-X OTR using a Rhino Rack Aerial mount and a modified version of our flat carrier plate. This gives the antenna base way more stability and peace of mind for use on rough unpaved roads. We still need to wire it into the cabin but we'll have those photos...