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pnichols
Jan 30, 2015Explorer II
Here's about the worst we've been on:
Just some water from a flooded river with a hard surface road underneath -

Here's a fairly smooth road we went on ... it went for several miles to a fossil quarry in Central Utah ... unfortunately I don't have a photo of the steep climb at the end to a parking lot by the quarry -

Here's us and a couple of our traveling friends out in the middle of nowhere in Death Valley camped off a 4X4 road -

Here's us having to camp out in the middle of nowhere in Utah because the campground in a National Park was full -

Here's a shot of the "RVs Not Recommended" desert loop road we were driving in Monument Valley ... most other vehicles there were the little tourist jeeps driven by the Native Americans -

Here's a fairly benign looking camp site that happened to be deep in the Oregon Outback. We went 25 miles each way at 7-10 MPH on extreme washboard to get there and back from a bump-in-the-road town way out there. We controlled the dust inside the RV by maintaining air pressure inside -

We take our decent-clearance (nothing hanging down low) 24 foot Class C off-road as needed rock hounding, but real carefully. However the coach weight is way under the max weight capacity of the chassis, so the truck does not strain to deal with it and the truck's overkill frame stiffness helps keep the coach floor on a plane at all times if we watch it while on tipped and rutted roads. Being out in the middle of a beautiful and serene nowhere with all the comforts of home is a hoot.
Just some water from a flooded river with a hard surface road underneath -

Here's a fairly smooth road we went on ... it went for several miles to a fossil quarry in Central Utah ... unfortunately I don't have a photo of the steep climb at the end to a parking lot by the quarry -

Here's us and a couple of our traveling friends out in the middle of nowhere in Death Valley camped off a 4X4 road -

Here's us having to camp out in the middle of nowhere in Utah because the campground in a National Park was full -

Here's a shot of the "RVs Not Recommended" desert loop road we were driving in Monument Valley ... most other vehicles there were the little tourist jeeps driven by the Native Americans -

Here's a fairly benign looking camp site that happened to be deep in the Oregon Outback. We went 25 miles each way at 7-10 MPH on extreme washboard to get there and back from a bump-in-the-road town way out there. We controlled the dust inside the RV by maintaining air pressure inside -

We take our decent-clearance (nothing hanging down low) 24 foot Class C off-road as needed rock hounding, but real carefully. However the coach weight is way under the max weight capacity of the chassis, so the truck does not strain to deal with it and the truck's overkill frame stiffness helps keep the coach floor on a plane at all times if we watch it while on tipped and rutted roads. Being out in the middle of a beautiful and serene nowhere with all the comforts of home is a hoot.
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