Pacific Northwest Backroad Adventures

Over on the forum at OBCDR Trip Report, Decidion posted up a web page with a trip report of a recent 4-day trip through the Oregon Backcountry.

Decidion describes the trip as follows:

“The Oregon Backcountry Discovery Route is a series of gravel and offroad/4×4 trails that leads from the California border all the way up to the Washington border along the eastern edge of the Cascade mountains. It is primarily US Forest Service roads, some of which are maintain, but a lot of them have not seen any cleanup since the last person who ran the route.”

Read the trip report at Oregon Backcountry Discovery Route Trip.

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Lets say that you are out on an off-road adventure with a group of other people and the vehicle in front (or back) slides into you and causes damage to your vehicle. What is the right thing to do? Should the person who slides into you pay for the damage? Should you take the responsibility because you should have recognized the situation and waited for the other vehicle to clear the obstacle? Do you call it even and move on?

What are your thoughts? Join the discussion on the forum at Accident Protocol.

Anybody who ventures away from well-maintained forest roads will eventually be faced with the decision to attempt a water crossing or not.

Before you go out for your next overland adventure, you should learn a little about your vehicle, its capabilities and some modifications that will help you in case you are faced with a water crossing.

Once you’re about to make the water crossing, you’ll need to do some planning to increase your chances of a successful water crossing.

Then after you successfully made your water crossing, there are some maintenance items that need to be dealt with.

All these topics are discussed in a great article titled Water Crossing How To over at Offroad-Adventure-Travel.com.

This information will help you safely make water crossings without major damage to your vehicle.

You can read more off-road adventure travel tips at http://www.offroad-adventure-travel.com/tech.html.