Where Have You Taken Your 4x4 Dually Pickup & TC OffRoad

rickjo wrote:
I love it. Where is this. I want to visit sites like this when I organize our grand tour of Australia.

Rick

Rick,One of the Gorges of the Northern Territory.Probably in Kakadu.
From my "sticky" on this site, here are details of the TC manufacturer. They are between a Unconventional and Conventional camper.See my RV Net "sticky" below If you look at the Owners site on the Active Campers website, they had a group traveling through Mongolia. Bulk of the photos appear to be the Northern Territory or other parts of Australia.
Active Campers TC

Australian TC manufacturers

RobertRyan wrote:

I love it. Where is this. I want to visit sites like this when I organize our grand tour of Australia.

Rick

Last month, spent four days out in Utah, dry camping on BLM land while we explored on our motorcycles. Can be some rough roads to get back in to the unimproved, dispersed (read that FREE!) campsites but well worth it. Photos and location can be found in the Garmin Adventure link below. This campsite was very easy to get to.

http://adventures.garmin.com/en-US/by/srfade/dirt-bike-tour-on-the-san-rafael-swell/#overview

Went "exploring" last year and ended up on a road that would have been fun in my off road truck. Dragged the jack multiple times on the road that was pretty much washed out with lots of big rocks on it. It was about a 30 degree incline too, so once I got down, I had to get back out because it was a dead end. I know I'm having fun when my wife shrieks more than once. :)

Most of the camping my wife and I do with our friends is in very remote areas of the mountains in Montana and Wyoming. Some of our trips have had 20-30 miles of rough/gravel roads to reach. It's why we camp in TC's, is the ability to access places we couldn't with any other RV. My closest friends and family all started camping out of necessity on multi-day remote off-road trips in our built 4x4 trucks/jeeps. After children, it has evolved into family camping trips without the 4x4s.

My city slicker friends with TT's and 5ers can't hang and don't camp with us any more unless we go with them to the over-crowded, paved $25/nite campgrounds. No thanks, we'll go until we almost get stuck, pull off the road, shut 'er down, fire up the grill, and call it camp.

I take my truck and camper off road every year hunting, we have also been up the dumpster to the artic circle great trip just keep the speed down with a load on the truck have had no issues, I have had issues however when driving in mud or snow with no load the duel rear wheels will ride up on the snow and mud causing loss of traction not a big issue as my truck is a dodge 1 ton dully 4x4, also a good thing to check is for rocks stuck between the duel tires the rock can come out like it was shot out of a cannon, when you come back onto highway stop and check for this you might save a life. Good luck with your truck.

In the southwest deserts of CA, AZ and some remote areas in Oregon, just take your time, plot your course and at times I have used spotter for some of the more challanging areas to a help avoid any serious damage. Damgage for me sofar has mostly been scraps and scratches. Unigue problems with a DRW is width of the fenders and the duals collecting rocks.

Let's see.... bunch of USFS campgrounds in the Cascade mountains, drove it through the National Bison Range in it's entirety in Montana, whole lot of hair pin turns and steep steep grades, lot of 2-lo climbing there :).

Cautiously is the watch word. I will attempt quite extreme roads but what often stops me is overhead clearance. 4WD roads here in the US west, particularly in the forests, are overgrown above the road. There is a nearby 4WD road that services radio transmitters on top of a mountain peak. Propane trucks have to make it to the site. The main approach to the beginning of the 4WD road is up a very sandy arroyo (dry creek bed). We take a longer alternative road as the propane trucks do, and then slowly work our way to the top. 360 degree views are fantastic and summer weather cooler than the nearby high desert. It has startled some jeepers to see us up there.

The other downside, not necessarily unique to DRW trucks, are the desert pinstripes on our camper from the vegetation along the side of 4WD roads. Should be a common occurrence in Australia too.

Rick