This year made the 8th year in a row for the expeditionutah.com Ghost Town Tour. I’d first like to thank…
Another short video trip report. Just taking it easy out on the desert for a couple of days.
I got a drone for Christmas. Weather finally broke so I could go out and try it yesterday. Pretty fun!
Axle PM’s Just a brief update on recent preventative maintenance/upgrades on the old LJ. Considering how far from anything I…
So, it has been over a year since I’ve posted anything here on coyotestuff. Wow, time flies. And I’m lazy.…
…my Jeep emitted a NASTY snapping, grinding, breaking and broken metal sound. This can’t be good…
The White Pine district got it’s legs in the late 1860’s when the “White Pine fever” created the “White Pine rush”, with 13,000 claims filed in two year period. Spawning many short lived but colorful and vibrant camps and towns, including the Belmont mill, Shermantown, Eberhardt, Hamilton and Swansea and many others. At it’s peak in the early 1870’s the district was home to over 30,000 men.
With the addition of bumpers, winch, armor etc., and the weight and rolling resistance of 35’s, the factory brakes on my 2006 Jeep LJ have never been more than okay…. I decided to go for the 17” wheel flavor, utilizing dual piston calipers for an ’11-’15 Grand Cherokee or Durango and rotors for an ’11-’14 Mustang GT.
…A simple idea… Drive from Wendover, straddling the Nevada/Utah border on I-80, to St. George in the SW corner of Utah, near the Arizona border. Drive from Wendover to St. George… on dirt…
“Under the settlement announced Monday by officials for Utah and Juab County and a number of environmental groups, the federal government agreed to reopen Granite Canyon, Toms Creek and Trout Creek roads in the Deep Creek Mountains.”
Last Thursday, after confirming with the BLM that the gates were in fact now open, I pointed the Jeep’s hood west…