Trails & Tales Being Independent of IFS I have always been a Jeep owner at heart. Rock crawling and heavy articulation run through my veins, but a few years ago I set […] Tread Staff April 23, 2018
Trails & Tales The Rim It’s 4:00 a.m. the day before Christmas Eve. This might sound early, but for a snow plow driver it’s more like sleeping in for 3 […] Scott Hunt April 05, 2018
Trails & Tales Chasing The Sun The dull ringing of the air raid siren woke me, I reached for the sound but only found my pistol on the nightstand. My groggy […] Tread Staff March 29, 2018
Outdoor Adventures Trails & Tales Trail Advisory: The Kokopelli Trail The Native American’s of southwestern U.S. have Kokopelli—their deity of fertility and agriculture. He is also a trickster, the spirit of music and the one […] Tread Staff March 21, 2018
Trails & Tales Science: Anodizing In today’s world, automotive components are largely moving towards aluminum as a means of saving weight while still being strong. Manufacturers, like Ford, have gone […] Tread Staff March 19, 2018
Jeeps Outdoor Adventures Travel Advisory: Morrison Jeep trail The Morrison Jeep Trail is an OHV trail in Wyoming, just northwest of Cody and southwest of Billings, Montana. It is an extremely dangerous, narrow, […] Tread Staff March 08, 2018
Trails & Tales Travel Advisory: Black Bear Pass Black Bear Road is officially known as Forest Service Road 648, and is one of the most notorious off-road trails in the U.S. Located in […] Tread Staff February 09, 2018
Camping Hiking Travel Advisory: Ophir Pass Ophir Pass is located at 11,114 feet near Telluride, Colorado, and is officially known as Forest Service Road #630. It is one of the easiest […] Tread Staff February 06, 2018
Fishing Off-Roading Treading Lightly We live in an age where decades-long abuse of our public lands has led to the closure of off-road trail networks all over the country, […] Tread Staff January 31, 2018
Trails & Tales Continental Divide: Hagerman Pass Hagerman Pass is a high mountain pass that crosses the Continental Divide in the Rocky Mountains of central Colorado. It passes the Sawatch Range, west […] Tread Staff January 23, 2018
Outdoor Adventures Overlanding Utah Christmas Roadtrip: 5 Days and 1.3k miles of Adventure! I’d been wanting to do this trip for a while now cause my girlfriend Olivia has never been to these areas and one of my […] Jim Bob Barnett January 11, 2018
Trails & Tales Amber Do you have ‘shower thoughts’? Not the normal kind where people suspect the Government of plotting something against society, but these weird little oddball ideas […] Tread Staff January 08, 2018
Trails & Tales Paralysis By Analysis How much information are you capable of ingesting at any given time? Everybody is different, but when there is so much data flowing at you […] Tread Staff January 06, 2018
Off-Roading Outdoor Adventures Trail Advisory: Imogene Pass Imogene Pass is located at 37°55′56″N 107°44′10″W in the San Juan Mountains of Colorado, within Ouray/San Miguel counties. At 13,114 feet, it is the highest […] Tread Staff January 04, 2018
Outdoor Adventures Trails & Tales Travel Advisory: Monument Valley Tsé Bii’ Ndzisgaii: Valley of the Rocks in Navajo. Monument Valley is the picturesque definition of western America. It is a part of the Colorado […] Tread Staff December 27, 2017
Trails & Tales The Most Popular Vehicle in the World: Super Cub To many Americans’ surprise, the most popular vehicle in the world is not a car at all—it is the Honda Super Cub. The Honda Super […] Tread Staff December 26, 2017
Trails & Tales Travel Advisory: Ouray, CO Ouray is at the heart of the best off-roading and remote vistas in the rocky mountains. With a population of a little over 1000 people, […] Tread Staff December 20, 2017
Trails & Tales It’s Okay, It Has a Snorkel Remember the scene from 1997’s film, Dante’s Peak, where the USGS Volcanologist Dr. Harry Dalton travels to Dante’s Peak, Washington, and is escaping what was […] Tread Staff December 19, 2017
Trails & Tales Range Rover: A Brief History The Rover Company, on the heels of the success of the Series 1 in 1951, started experimenting with a larger model. The idea was eventually […] Tread Staff December 18, 2017
Trails & Tales Vans & Campers Travel-All The 4WD panel van is not a new concept. In World War II, the grand-daddy of factory 4WD trucks—The Dodge Power Wagon—was available in a […] Tread Staff December 12, 2017