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Ashley Gorge Via Ferrata! Such a rad course, in vernal UT. Course time ~5 hours depending which route you take. The ladder is no joke!
S/O vernal for putting this course in and keeping it free to the public 👊🏾

#Viaferrata #Ashleygorge #Vernal #jurasskicked #viaferratavernal

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Ouray 2026 ⛰️

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Mid trip post because this is the best place ever.

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the most beautiful wedding & ofc my forever wedding date ✨

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Last years trip to Colorado was unreal and this was just the first full day there. Can’t wait to do it again, July can’t come soon enough!
#colorado #overland #toyota #camping #jeep

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Staying warm

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I really love this Jeep. It’s become one of my best friends. I drive it to work. I take care of it. I trust it to overcome obstacles and my own fears. It climbs over anything off-road. Then it can out muscle car most things on the road not by time but by pure moxy. Is it perfect? Nope. Nothing you love ever is. But that’s why you love it. Because you know everything about it. Hotness, charm and bunyans. All of it.

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I cannot express how much I love this Jeep. It takes me here but It’s also an adult sized Lego set. My wife has gotten tired of me saying - I’ll be in garage working on the Jeep. Because every weekend I have free time and I’m not driving somewhere - I’m working on the Jeep. And she walks out to call me in and I’m on a ladder or under it. Somehow she hasn’t gotten mad that I’d rather do this than… fixing the lighting system in the house. It’s easy to work on. It has tons of aftermarket support. It reminds me of the days it was super easy to work on my Honda.

Finally - I also can’t say enough how much I love the Eastern Sierras. I so badly want to go back.

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This and a good cigar was the stress relief I needed. Alabama Hills - we will see you again… for sure.

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This photo goes harder than it should… or @boz4rnr and I actually did.

We had intended to camp at Trona Pinnacles for the night. We got to the trail head around 3pm.. right after some heavy rain. We crossed a few streams and the road we normally take… seemed muddy with a huge body of water on the other side. He got stuck and we spent an hour digging him out. I say we. More like he. As I was at the ready with a winch if we needed it. We were only a short way in to the pinnacles. Reports from others was that the road there was impassable due to washes and mud. So we just camped a little further in. As it was late. No need to let our egos get the best of us. Still fun to get the Jeep through some mud and water crossings.

I’ll also post more on my @apexdesignsusa quad air system connected to the arb dual compressor. It works great now.

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Short story. @boz4rnr and I didn’t make it to the actual Trona Pinnacles. We camped at a safe spot for the night. Then headed separate ways after.

Long story. I had initially planned for 5 months to go on a trip to Death Valley headed by Bob Wohlers. He’s written books about off roading, recovery and trail medical aid. He uses the trips as teaching too. So he was gonna push the group. Well he called me a month ago saying he wasn’t confident of the trail conditions and also the government shutdown at the time hadn’t resolved. So he cancelled.

In the meantime, my dad had a stroke. So I decided to visit him in my time off. I still wanted to go somewhere so my buddy Matt aka @boz4rnr said he could camp for night before he meets up with a group going to Baja for a week. We threw around some jdeas and decided on Trona Pinnacles. Well it rained a lot up until the morning we left. When we got there we could tell immediately it was going to be tough. A large stream then a smaller one existed which apparently is never there which wasn’t a problem for us. Then the mud. It was super slick and Matt, being way more experienced than I went it first and told me to stay back. He got stuck. It took him an hour or so to get unstuck and find the recovery gear in the mud. In the meantime a few rigged up jeeps came back and said there’s a different route but even then they couldn’t get there due to the mud. We decided to out use the other route around the train and then just camp there. We also weren’t sure if it was going to rain more. So didn’t want to get stranded. And it was getting dark.

It was still a great time. And the Jeep did great. Didn’t blink an eye. I need to go back to Trona when it’s not mudded out.

#aev #aevjl370 #gobi #jl370 #jeep #jeeplifestyle #jeepnation #jeep392 #jeeprubicon #jeepwranglerrubicon #jeepwranglers #jeeplove #jeepsofinstagram #jeeplovers #jeepstagram #jeepbuild #jeeplifestyle #jeeplifestyle #jeeplife #jeeplife

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When I was young I’d go camping with my dad at Lake Kandiyohi in Minnesota. I was a kid. So running around with my best friend Jimmy was all I cared about. When you’re a kid you don’t realize what’s coming ahead. Fighting with your parents. Heartbreak. Calling rice with soy sauce with butter meal till your next check came in. Or the struggles and self doubt about whether you can do what you do. Or will you be a failure. I hadn’t gone camping since I was a kid - save one time with friends at Apple River - but we were a little lit all night. Then my mom died. And my dad got older and sicker.

It’s then I realized I have to stop chasing things. I work hard. I have to make decisions that change the course of people’s lives forever. I don’t sleep sometimes when I do. Translating my hard earned income into things? It’s short lived. A dopamine hit that is like an iv push.

I realized I had to chase experiences. A slow extended release of memories, introspection, and challenges. I read someone say you want to say when you get old “I can’t believe that” rather than “I wish I did that.”

In the end as I saw my dad before this trip, right after a stroke.. it was heartbreaking. And I told him about camping at Kandiyohi. And he lit up. It reinforced why I bought the Jeep and all I do is plan my limited time off around camping (I can’t really call it overlanding for some reason). As Andy Dufresne said in the Shawshank Redemption “I guess it comes down to a simple choice, really. Get busy living, or get busy dying.”

(Let’s see ai write that caption)

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