Offroadin or muddin

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anybody else does this i think skiin and offroadin go hand and hand because of the moutain roads anybody else go muddin or offraodin?
 
i guess puddles count aint wat we go through i like mud hole that come at least to my doors or climbin steep hills and over big rocks
 
i call it wheelin, and yes it is awesome. it's my favorite thing to do besides skiing. (check my profile for some wheelin pics). what kind of rig you running?
 
We have a local backcountry hill around here, buck hill, its state land. We took my cousin's '89 ranger up there and blazed up the road, covered in almost 2.5 feet of snow. it was pow. We got out, toured for a few hours, and he drove, while he towed me on my skis. We got stuck about 3 times, sooo fun. Can't wait till spring when its muddy
 
BRAPPP!!!!!!!!

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96 land rover disco on 35s wid 4in lift it a work in progress and it take a while cuase i work on it mainly by myself and it gonna be wat i drive to school soon so but it a nice rig for wat i want and i only 16 so
 
I love slinging mud in my WRX, and co-piloting some good rockcrawling

But wintersports and wheelin' def go hand in hand
 
Offroading is pretty much my life when theres not snow on the ground. I used to take my old 99 Silverado mudding out on the shitty dirt roads by my house all the time, as well as some occaisonal ditch running. Now that i have the S10 though i havent been that extreme, mainly cus its only 2wd, but i still take it through some pretty thick shit and the occaisonal mud hole.
 
i go offroad, nothing too extreme, just dirt roads and stuff like that.

i think my jeep looks better dirty than clean
 
Did the passenger tire get stuck? Haha.

Anyways, Off-Roading is really fun. But I live in Wisconsin, so I guess it's just muddin'. Grand Cherokee's for the win.
 
my dad has a '94 jeep wrangler, and its just sitting in the garage. once i get my license im definitely installing a 5" lift kit.
 
Seems like a waste of gas, money, and the natural world to me. I hate seeing how much of the country is torn up by pointless off-roading, especially high altitude, delicate areas where the tracks will remain for hundreds, if not thousands, of years. Wouldn't it be more fun and a lot cheaper to go over the same areas on a mountain bike or on foot? I guess I understand it a little more if it's in an wooded area with rapid ecological succession, but I'm pretty turned off by the "sport" as a whole.
 
I hiked 2500 miles from mexico to canada along the pacific trail in the summer of 2008 and more days than not I saw significant destruction that will be around for many generations to come. In areas without much topsoil, even a few atvs can do some serious and semi-permanent damage. I don't know what you mean by "tread lightly" since in my opinion, off-roading is one of the most heavy impact activities imaginable. Again, I will concede that in forested areas with rapid succession (read: a lot of precipitation and biological activity) the damage is not so bad.
 
treading lightly is driving responsibly ON trail.

on trail being key.

the thing is, its easy to say a 4x4 trail is destruction, but so is any trail... the pacific trail is just as unnatural as any
 
http://www.treadlightly.org/

tread lightly is a group that promotes responsible outdoor use. I am an environmental studies major at CU Boulder (along with lawlz.) and 4wheelin is one of my biggest hobbies. We practice safe and responsible "offroading". We clean trails when we wheel, we do NOT wander off trail causing trail braiding. We do not over use trails. It isn't as though people who offroad don't hike. I hike just as much, and people just need to realize we need to take care of areas no matter what.
 
^^^ what he said, plus I mtn bike a shitload.

I do get what you mean though, there are some places where wheeling has fucked up the area. but most ppl are smart about it, and know that there are serious consequences for breaking rules.
 
buy a jeep, they are easy to lift and inexpensive, plus if your lucky you can get a dana 30 and 35 axle out of it instead of the chrysler.
 
nah dude, get a yota with 8in axles. which are proven to be the same strength as dana 44s but they arent full width. on top you get strong motor, bulletproof tranny, and a gear driven t-case which you can double up cheap. throw aussie lockers, some 35s and a doubler, thing will go anywear.
 
don't really feel like getting into a full debate over that though. just head to pirate4x4 forums if you are curious. you can't go wrong starting out with a jeep or yota (i just happen to be a yota guy). doesnt matter when you get into serious builds everything is expensive and everybody is on the same level. just have fun....like skiing.
 
Thats bullshit. This was in a wheelin' magazine like 2 years ago. and the pic was from the early 90s

piece of shit.
 
wait......youre saying oyu want the 35 in it......hahaha, the chrysler 8.25 is stronger, then the dana44, then a ford 8.8.

silly
 
The issue is the scale of your individual impact. The pacific crest trail is a single-track footpath that travels from mexico and provides recreation for likely 50,000 plus (total guess) people every year. There are also approximately 300 people every year that spend about five months hiking the entire length of the trail. I think that it is completely reasonable to say that the aesthetic and ecological impact of the entire pacific crest trail system is less than that of even a few hundred hundred miles of off-road trails, and hiking definitely has a much lower impact on an individual basis.

p.s. the pacific crest trail is not much larger than an animal trail, and areas that have significant erosion are due to pack-animals, which I also do not think are appropriate in sensitive areas.
 
Haha noob. You'd be lucky to have your Dana 35s survive the trail without blowing up. Only axles worth swapping to for offroad use are the Ford 8.8 and 9 inch, the Dana 60, and the GM 12 or 14 bolt.
 
It depends on where you go man. If youre offroading out at Pismo dunes somewhere in the shit desert, then i doubt that it will kill the environment there. Hell we hardly have any trails in Iowa, the offroading here consists of hitting level B dirt roads after it rains and theyre nothing but grease. But most of the offroad areas up in the mountains are pretty well protected and everyone does a good job of cleaning up and staying on trail. Most of the trails were there beforehand, being old mining and logging trails.
 
dude my truck is white it changes ethnicities when i go mudding.... its sick i have a truck that is accepted by everyone. wooooooo
 
I love offroading. My second biggest passion after skiing.
Currently have a 2000 Jeep WJ with a 3" Iron Rock Offroad Kit with JKS sway bar quick disconnects, thrush turbo exhaust and just got some 31" SuperSwamper LTB's on Cragar Soft 8's for Christmas. Going be a fun spring!
I'll try to take a pic of the beaut later
 
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