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A Swell Break

Sometimes you just need a break. It’d been a long tail end of the winter and nearly three months since my last camping trip to the Newfoundland Mountains. So while I was doing some maintenance to the Trooper a few

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Mother Nature V. Bone Stock

We’re driven in offroad adventuring, it seems, by two forces; the ego, and the land. It’s been my experience that answering the call of the wild is much less expensive. That call should be in the interrogative, questions anyone taking

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Tuweep to Laugh

Tuweep is a place that delivers you proportionately. Big earth, puny human. Like her not-so-distant relative, the North Rim, this more obscure Grand Canyon overlook shuts your mouth and opens your senses and your mind. We were there only eleven

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Cedar Mesa for the Weekend

Last weekend I spent a few days prowling around Cedar Mesa, both on foot and in my Jeep. Here is where I unfolded my cot and unrolled my sleeping bag at the dead end of the Cigarette Springs road. Still

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