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What is Overlanding?

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

Peel River

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. Continue reading “What is Overlanding?”

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Why do I need Ham Radio in my 4×4?

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. Continue reading “Why do I need Ham Radio in my 4×4?”