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Camping and off-roading are fun and are great ways to see nature at it's finest. They also let us recharge our batteries after the daily grinds many find ourselves in. We have posted some photos of our past adventures. We support the Tread-Lightly philosophy and hope you will also.

Backpacking in Sawtooth Wilderness in 2003. One of the best things about a four wheel drive vehicle and a rooftop tent is that the combination allows us to get to trailheads in comfort and to have a warm shelter at the end of the hiking adventure. The Sawtooth Wilderness is somewhat remote, but has easy hiking trails surrounded by great scenery. During the summer months it can become pretty crowded however.

You always want to get the action pictures, right? But what usually happens is when there's action, everyone is too busy to take pictures. Luckily while down in Moab, UT, during the spring of 2006, Dale had his son Jeremy with him. He took this shot of Dale guiding Geoff in his Cruiser down a steep ravine along the Lockhardt Basin Trail. This was one of the easier spots within the ravine.

One of Dale's favorite spots to explore is northwest Montana. A good friend and long time off-roading companion, John Benham and Dale found an old abandoned Air Force communications site at the end of a trail which wound circuitously about a mountain near Yaak. It was early fall, the daytime weather was sunny and brisk and the evenings got to near freezing. But what incredible views of the stars! Our campsites pitch quickly and we can be back on the trail in less than 20 minutes.

Many people consider Eastern Washington to be a dreary desert landscape, with nothing to see, and no places to visit. We hope that they continue to think so. The Palouse Falls is an incredible site, especially during the snow melt in spring time. These falls, a part of the scablands topography, are a wonderful remnant of the great Missoula floods that swept across parts of eastern Washington from their sources in northern Montana and Idaho near the end of the last great ice age.

Before owning and building up his 2000 Tacoma, Dale owned this 1990 Range Rover Classic. It was one of the most comfortable and best handling vehicles he has driven off-road, especially after installing OME springs and Bilstein shocks. It's major problem was the maintenance costs associated with owning a Land Rover. The photo was taken in 1998 or 99 in Shoup, ID, along the Salmon River. Notice the gravity feed gas pumps. Shoup is a great place to stop and get a chocolate malt on a hot day while circumnavigating the Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness via the back roads.

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This site was last updated 03/13/07