I wanted to keep my dad busy and see as many areas as we could while he visited. So, we took off on Saturday and headed south of the...

After seeing pictures from a few other outings I've been on this fall, my dad travelled out to visit and join me on a Jeep outing while...

A lot of the forest road and BLM road routes that I travel are the result of looking at GAIA GPS and simply being curious about an area. ...

With Bri in Wisconsin I thought I'd better stick to easy and regularly travelled forest roads when I head out in the Jeep by myself. I...

Between the smoke from the Caldor and Dixie fires, and the National Forest closures that are scheduled to end on September 17, we've been...

The Jeep has been busy this summer, but mostly around town and showing visitors some the forest roads in the Lake Tahoe basin. We've...

Bri and I have been busy since Father's Day with various personal travel, visits from friends and family, and dodging the smoky air. The...

This trail turned out to be the most challenging route we've taken to date. We got a later-than-normal start and hit the trail in early...

Today was a combination of forest road driving and hiking. Ash Canyon Road took us from Carson City, NV up to a parking area where we...

The high elevation trails and roads are almost ready! Today's outing took us from the Webber Lake Area north or Truckee, CA through a...

US HWY 395 runs from the Mojave Desert in Southern California to the Canadian border in Washington. The stretch in California runs...

Henness Pass Road was established in 1849 or 1850 and has served a few purposes since then. At times it was a major supply route for the...

One of my favorite drives in the Tahoe area is heading north from Interstate 80 on HWY 89, near Truckee, CA. Today we took HWY 89 to...

Not all trips are long, and not all trips require a lot of miles behind the wheel to enjoy the outing. We love a little roadside BBQ...

We headed to lower elevation for this trip, and into a part of California often referred to as "Gold Country". Yes, the Gold Country the...

After last week's trip to the Feather River Canyon, we found ourselves headed back into the Nevada desert. I am getting anxious for the...

Last fall we were anxious to find areas to hike outside of the Tahoe basin, areas where the wildfire smoke wouldn't be so bad? To do so,...

We left the pavement in Dayton, NV and headed east on Fort Churchill Road. Like most of our outtings lately, this is another high desert...

It was cloudy and snowy all week in Incline Village but the snow never really seemed to accumulate at our elevation (about 6,600 feet). ...

The Jeep has been busy running errands and taking us the places we need to go. As of this post, it has about 2,500 miles on it and...