BourbonRunner
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Hey all-
Parking this one for down the road.
Although I still have not yet pulled the trigger on a JTM, I have moved forward with our big trip in March. For my birthday we planned on doing an overlanding run in the desert from San Diego out through Joshua Tree, Mojave Trail, and then the plan was to be in Grand Canyon on my birthday (3/9). We've tweaked it a lot.
Flying out and renting built trucks made more sense than trying to buy one, build it, drive it cross country, and back to say the least. IT also gives me a good opportunity to get some serious saddle time in a JTM to assist in building out my own when the time comes. Previously I've extensively heavy and light truck camped both in primitive off road and equipped sites in a first gen Tacoma up and down the East Coast. I can go heavy with the full kit or high speed, low drag depending and rig for any type of weather, though beach camping remains my favorite.
So here's the plan now:
We're flying into Oakland on March 3, grabbing the trucks, and headed to Point Reyes (Samuel Taylor SP) for the evening.
We spend the night there, get some light hiking in and then are driving to Napa the evening of March 4. We're staying for a couple nights in a vineyard bungalow that the other couple was able to score through their connections.
At 7am on March 5 we are all running the Napa Half Marathon. I hate running but its a goal of mine to do a half. My better half and my friend's wife are runners so we're more or less along for the ride.
March 6 we decamp from the bungalow and spend the next night in Bothe-Napa State Park.
From there on the morning of March 7 we head either east or south.
The East path would take us up into the Sierras into Carson City, then down through Eldorado, Yosemite, Inyo, Sequoia, down into Death Valley. We'd wind up back in Oakland on March 13, stopping in the Santa Cruz mountains to hit Ridge Winery's Montebello (I've been knocking off Judgement of Paris wineries now every trip), fly out on a red eye and be back on the East Coast in the wee hours of the 14th. Concern from us and the outfitter is snow in the Sierras. They suggested a backup route.
The southerly route would take us from Napa Valley to Lake Isabella, then we'd hit DV and loop down into Mojave taking the eastern route and then back up the valley into the Santa Cruz mountains to Ridge and back.
I've been messing with Gaia but I'm not too impressed with the interface, unless I'm just an idiot.
The trucks come with InReach and from what I gather Gaia doesn't play nicely, so I'm open to suggestions on software for planning/routing underway, and points of interest along the way.
I'll post up more details when i have more time.
Parking this one for down the road.
Although I still have not yet pulled the trigger on a JTM, I have moved forward with our big trip in March. For my birthday we planned on doing an overlanding run in the desert from San Diego out through Joshua Tree, Mojave Trail, and then the plan was to be in Grand Canyon on my birthday (3/9). We've tweaked it a lot.
Flying out and renting built trucks made more sense than trying to buy one, build it, drive it cross country, and back to say the least. IT also gives me a good opportunity to get some serious saddle time in a JTM to assist in building out my own when the time comes. Previously I've extensively heavy and light truck camped both in primitive off road and equipped sites in a first gen Tacoma up and down the East Coast. I can go heavy with the full kit or high speed, low drag depending and rig for any type of weather, though beach camping remains my favorite.
So here's the plan now:
We're flying into Oakland on March 3, grabbing the trucks, and headed to Point Reyes (Samuel Taylor SP) for the evening.
We spend the night there, get some light hiking in and then are driving to Napa the evening of March 4. We're staying for a couple nights in a vineyard bungalow that the other couple was able to score through their connections.
At 7am on March 5 we are all running the Napa Half Marathon. I hate running but its a goal of mine to do a half. My better half and my friend's wife are runners so we're more or less along for the ride.
March 6 we decamp from the bungalow and spend the next night in Bothe-Napa State Park.
From there on the morning of March 7 we head either east or south.
The East path would take us up into the Sierras into Carson City, then down through Eldorado, Yosemite, Inyo, Sequoia, down into Death Valley. We'd wind up back in Oakland on March 13, stopping in the Santa Cruz mountains to hit Ridge Winery's Montebello (I've been knocking off Judgement of Paris wineries now every trip), fly out on a red eye and be back on the East Coast in the wee hours of the 14th. Concern from us and the outfitter is snow in the Sierras. They suggested a backup route.
The southerly route would take us from Napa Valley to Lake Isabella, then we'd hit DV and loop down into Mojave taking the eastern route and then back up the valley into the Santa Cruz mountains to Ridge and back.
I've been messing with Gaia but I'm not too impressed with the interface, unless I'm just an idiot.
The trucks come with InReach and from what I gather Gaia doesn't play nicely, so I'm open to suggestions on software for planning/routing underway, and points of interest along the way.
I'll post up more details when i have more time.
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