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Overland trip: CK5 wheels the UP 2016 (trip report and pictures going up!)
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Luke and Dave slept in rigs, we pitched a tent. They needed about half as much teardown time as we did.
Man this looks awesome guys! how easy would a 2wd c30 prerunner do on this kind of trip if you did it again next year? Cause I'm in....as long as you guys don't mind winching me up rock 
Man this looks awesome guys! how easy would a 2wd c30 prerunner do on this kind of trip if you did it again next year? Cause I'm in....as long as you guys don't mind winching me up rock
You'd probably be fine. We ran most of this trip with hubs unlocked. I took my bone-stock K10 the whole way. I declined one rock climb because I knew I didn't have clearance to get over it without ruining my low-hanging runningboards. They ran up there without me and then turned around and headed a different direction. Probably 10 minutes downtime. I was winched up one section of wet rock by the Maiden. Not a whole lot of technical driving, this is a get-out-and-see-awesome-stuff trip. Overlanding.
I'm sorting and posting pictures tonight. Check out Big Blue's thread for overlanding adventures.
You ain't seen nothing yet...I'm the only one who is back home yet. The trolls have a whole lot further to go.
Although noisy, we ran the last wheeling day on the choppy spare tire then ran 500 miles home fine. Hopefully somebody has videos of the rock climbing. In the meantime, here are the videos I took.
Farm truck in mud:
Maiden in mud:
I asked him not to tear it up too much because we might have to get back through it (and we did!)
Yesterday we drove on the Mohawk mine stamp sands in Lake Superior. This sand is much coarser than Silver Lake or any real beach sand. Think 1/8" rocks. To avoid the time of airing down and up we ran it all at street pressure, which makes it much harder. Some of the sand is soft and there are many stories of overheating and getting stuck.
Farm truck gets a bit of air:
He actually did get stuck coming into the sands but was able to back up and get himself out.
Iron Maiden climbing the black sand:
Farm truck in mud:
Maiden in mud:
I asked him not to tear it up too much because we might have to get back through it (and we did!)
Yesterday we drove on the Mohawk mine stamp sands in Lake Superior. This sand is much coarser than Silver Lake or any real beach sand. Think 1/8" rocks. To avoid the time of airing down and up we ran it all at street pressure, which makes it much harder. Some of the sand is soft and there are many stories of overheating and getting stuck.
Farm truck gets a bit of air:
He actually did get stuck coming into the sands but was able to back up and get himself out.
Iron Maiden climbing the black sand:
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Yeah, I guess so: http://www.ntwonline.com/37X1250R165E-SSR-RADIAL-INTERCO-SUPER-SWAMPER-P26993.aspx
I called a few local area shops looking for something 37" for 16.5 rim and they laughed at me before I even got to the part about wanting a Swamper. The best offer I got was a Goodyear in 1.5 weeks for $810. I decided we would continue the trip without wasting time trying to get another spare.
Man this looks awesome guys! how easy would a 2wd c30 prerunner do on this kind of trip if you did it again next year? Cause I'm in....as long as you guys don't mind winching me up rock
Yeah, a pre-runner would really smooth out 50% of the trails. For the most gnarly stuff we'd just figure something out to get the whole team through.
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Figured out why the farm truck was driving so erratically on the sand:
Wind was so high off Lake Superior we tied the Maiden to a tree
...to keep the tree from blowing away.
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Wind was so high off Lake Superior we tied the Maiden to a tree
...to keep the tree from blowing away.
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