They are absolutely the worst, going off trail, leaving garbage everywhere, half their camp sites look like homeless camps every morning. Its not hard to be respectful of nature and leave it better than you found it.
As long as you other recovery gear , snatch block , shackles, gloves ,shovel some kind of jack (other than a scissor lift) and someone knows where your at you should be fine
Your a wuss...lol just
Down the road, when it's time for new tires, I might look into getting some A/Ts, but I also need to keep in mind towing our camper and the fact that with everything in the Jeep and camper, I'm fairly close to my payload, too...
That's true and I always suggest staying under as much as possible. One of the biggest things I see go wrong is towing too close and then Wind shear or something breaks em loose. I traveled 100's of thousands of miles on the highways and seen it many times.
Just remember to have a GMRS or CB radio to call for assistance, if needed. You cannot rely on cell signal. Tell someone where you going and when you expect to be back.
Perhaps you should consider running "LT" tires instead of "P"-rated tires for towing/hauling.
So after one of the 4Fest events, I picked up a set of "deflators" that screw onto your valve stem, you set them to the desired PSI and let them go. When I was originally planning my trip and planning to solo the trail, I also picked up a Harbor Freight compressor that connects directly to the battery by a couple clamps to re-inflate the tires...
So I'm on the stock Bridgestone Dueler H/T tires, which from what I can find on Tirerack.com, are "truck" tires and not passenger tires. So that should be good (unless I'm reading things wrong, which wouldn't be surprising)
They are truck tires. They just come with a highway tread, and are not too good in poor traction conditions.
Fairly close to payload is a very strong argument for switching to LT tires. If you keep the H/Ts then at least add air pressure to all tires and feel how hot the back tires are getting compared to the fronts. If the backs are noticeably warmer than the fronts after some time towing and/or hauling, then add more air to all tires. This happened to me with load range E LT tires, and I brought them up to 50psi before they seemed happy. This was while towing at highway speeds in summer.
I'll go one better than just feeling the tires, I've got an infrared thermometer I bought to check the trailer tires and bearing temps, I can use that.
