Photo Thread: Land Cruiser Off Road!

Finally I pushed my lazy butt almost all the way through the 5th section of Oregon Backcountry Discovery Route (aka ORBDR). I've skipped couple northernmost sections because these were just super-narrow easy-ish forest roads with billions fallen trees sticking out of the trail trying to mangle up bodywork, resulting into just a boring super-slow drive, so I teleported using a bit of paved road right into bread and butter of this section towards wilderness around Olallie and 100500 other lakes.

LC is the couple pixels in the bottom right corner with Mt Jefferson and Olallie lake on the background:
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some taste of the northern sections:
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there were couple big fallen trees blocking the trail entrance somewhere in the middle of the trail, had to drive around these through the forest:
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getting closer to the fun part
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there are thousands of burned trees around that area :cry:
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there are so many smaller fallen trees so local don't care to remove those from the road
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views like after nuclear ๐Ÿ’ฅ
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4 out 10 according to onx
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oh, and of course adventure isn't good enough if you haven't rip something off ๐Ÿ™ˆ
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it is supposed to be like this:
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and couple bonus puppy pics to spoil y'all:
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I have done that entire route on motorcycle. Its fun.
I got passed by 2 biker from WA. That 2 dudes and 2 jeeps were all the ppl I saw that day ๐Ÿ˜… (and I've spent in the woods ~7h, definitely one of the quietest trails I took so far).
 
I am a big fan of traction boards vs winching also.
If ther is only one, the traction boards win.
 
Upstate of Sc, Chauga river, doing a little camping and fishing.
 

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That looks like a beautiful area to camp in.
 
Thanks for sharing - want to do that soon. Just did top half of IDBRD a few weeks ago - many downed trees with no way around finally got us, but Burnt Knob (4/10) was a blast!View attachment 73558
That looks like a blast. IDBDR is on my list - the only decision left is whether to do it on my ADV bike or the Land Cruiser!
 
That looks like a blast. IDBDR is on my list - the only decision left is whether to do it on my ADV bike or the Land Cruiser!
We had a bike with us. He has decades of experience and did not do Burnt Knob (said he would have on his smaller bike), but otherwise waited patiently for us and scouted ahead where the trees became a no-go, even for him.
 
We had a bike with us. He has decades of experience and did not do Burnt Knob (said he would have on his smaller bike), but otherwise waited patiently for us and scouted ahead where the trees became a no-go, even for him.
Best of both worlds! Iโ€™ve done most of the ORBDR solo on the bike, but my wife and I have discussed doing a true end-to-end (S to N) trip with both the bike (me) and the Land Cruiser (her and friends) following. If only we had more time on our hands!
 
That looks like a blast. IDBDR is on my list - the only decision left is whether to do it on my ADV bike or the Land Cruiser!
Some friends and I did it on our dual sport bikes. At the time I was on an โ€˜07 R1200GS Adventure (not the โ€˜11 R1200GS Adventure in my avatar). I was a younger man then. Thatโ€™s all in the past now. Youโ€™re close enough to do it in the LC, AND later on the dual sport. Planning is critically important.
 
What can I say... I was there two weeks back. Worst part is we went past Burnt Knob. Arrrgggh!

Our route-
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I road those roads MANY times, on my bike(s), mostly 2 up.. I really miss those rides. But alas, I think Iโ€™m too old nowโ€ฆ
 
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