What is Overlanding?

Written by Scott Brady

Originally posted at http://www.expeditionportal.com/editorials/36-trip-reports/95-what-is-overlanding.html

Overlanding

We shall not cease from exploration

And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started, and know the place for the first time.

Through the unknown, remembered gate, when the last of earth left to discover is that which was the beginning.

T.S. Elliot

N68, Driving to Aklavik in the NWT of Canada on the frozen Peel River.

By Scott Brady, with contributions from Douglas Hackney, Jonathan Hanson, Graham Jackson and Sinuhe Xavier. Additional contributions scheduled.

This article is a community-wide effort to best describe and define the terms and activities of “Expedition”, “Overland” and “Backcountry Adventures”. There will be several contributors as the definitions take shape. For now, these are our thoughts.  The intent of this article and these definitions are not to judge if someone is actually achieving our definition of overland travel or vehicle-dependent expeditions, only to serve as a guide for more accurate use of the terms in use. (more…)

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Everyone already uses a C.B. so why do I need Amateur Radio?

Range and versatility are the biggest advantages. A C.B. radio is normally limited to local line of site contacts, which means that hills buildings, and even the curvature of the earth can all be limiting factors to the range of your transmissions. Amateur Radio operators or “Hams” have the added advantage of using repeaters to increase the range of reliable contacts. (more…)

Welcome to the latest adventure by the 22^nd Expeditionary Group. This trip was planned do the fact that one of our members is with a child (well his wife is). That being said, he wanted to get out of town for a few days since it is getting close to the due date.

The plan for this trip was to stay close, so we settled on the Lytle Creek area of the San Bernardino Mountains. Lytle Creek Canyon was settle by Mormons in the mid 1800’s due to the abundance of water flowing from the canyon. This area has been known as a recreational playground since the 1870’s, and play we did. (more…)

Summer is almost here, and that means the really hot weather is just around the corner. Even though the hot season is literally an annual event, many people drop their guard and put themselves at great risk.

No one is immune to these forces. In late April a border patrol agent suffered either heat stroke or heat exhaustion while patrolling in the Otay Mountain Wilderness area in California.
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