Check out these limited edition, 100th Anniversary Maine Hunting Shoes from L.L. Bean. They feature a 12″ leather upper and brick-red soles that are durable yet flexible enough to transmit the feel of the terrain. They’re a faithful reissue of the 1912 original. Available now for $140.
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For our first camping trip of the season together, my girlfriend, Natalie, and I took the canoe up to Lake Sonoma for some boat-in camping. Lake Sonoma is a man-made reservoir just east of Cloverdale, California. There are beautiful campsites around the edge of the lake, lots of shoreline to explore, and plenty of fishing — the lake contains one of California’s only landlocked steelhead populations.
We self registered for a campsite at park headquarters at the southern end of the lake then drove up to Yorty Creek to put in. With the canoe packed up, we shoved off for the 2.7 mile paddle to our campsite. It was fairly windy but, once we left the main basin of the lake, the water was much calmer. In an hour and fifteen minutes we were at Thumb Camp, Site #2. Read the rest of this entry »
If you’re looking for something to go with your handlebar moustache, you might try this 1971 Jeep J4000 Gladiator. According to the seller, it was restored in 2008.
If you want to make a move, you’ve got about a day left. Bidding currently stands and $9,550 and the reserve hasn’t been met.
Check out the write up on Bring a Trailer or view all of the details on ebay.
Photo: Gregory McDonaldA few weeks ago my friend Greg and I headed up to the Mendocino National Forest for a quick mid-week camping trip. Our plan was to drive south on Forest Road M1 from near Covelo, CA to Lake Pillsbury. When we got to the ranger station in Covelo, however, they informed us that the M1 was still closed due to snow. Doh. I guess that’s why it’s good to phone first.
After asking about our options at the Eel River Work Station (the smaller ranger station East of Covelo), we headed northeast up the M1 instead to a defunct camping area called Boardman Ridge. The area is accessed via an unnamed jeep road off the M1 roughly five miles from the aforementioned ranger station. We followed the rutted jeep road about 3 miles to the end of the line (Difficulty 2 out of 10) and then backtracked to spot opposite a meadow and pitched camp for the night. Read the rest of this entry »
I found this on BikeEXIF the other day. It’s a Triumph Scrambler modified to compete in the Triumph Tridays scramble, a 400-meter sprint across a field in Neukirchen, Austria.
The Tridays Rumbler is a one-off but, if you want, you can source the parts yourself and build your own.
Image: Stardate.orgIf you live in the Western and Southwestern United States, southern China or Japan, go out and see the eclipse today. Viewers along the exact path of the eclipse will see an annular ring, meaning the moon will be centered on the sun but won’t appear big enough to cover the entire solar disk, leaving a ring of light around the shadow of the moon.
In the U.S., the eclipse will start around 5:15pm PST, reach a maximum around 6:30pm PST and end around 7:30pm PST. Here’s a link to Stardate.org, which has exact times and locations. Be patient with the server. They have heavy traffic today.
Or check this NASA Google Map. Clicking on the map will give you the exact times for that location.
Update: Link to the Stardate.org site is fixed.
Check out this Land Rover 110. It has a sequential 5-speed transmission, 2-speed transfer case, working disc brakes, selectable 4-wheel-drive, and is made entirely out of Legos. Amazing! What’s more, every one of those features and more are actuated by remote control. Quite a project.
It’s currently listed on a site called Cuusoo, which is a kind of farm league for Lego models. If it gets 10,000 votes, Lego will produce it as a kit.
Read the rest for more photos and a video of it in action.
Here’s a link to the builder’s site.
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Youtube user, buscraftmyway, shows how to turn an ordinary tea light and a strip of cardboard into an ingenious, practical fire-starting tool. He calls it a “mini Bushbuddy” and reports that it’s also good for boiling a single cup of water. Brilliant. I can’t wait to try it out.
No, I’ve never heard of it either. According to Wikipedia, Daihatsu built the 4×4 Blizzard for Toyota from 1980 into the 90s. It was domestic market model (hence the right-hand drive), based on the Daihatsu Taft but utilizing the L-series, 2.2l, 4-cylinder, Toyota diesel engine. A 2.4l turbodiesel became available in 1984.
The seller says only two other hardtops exist in North America. The seller seems to be something of a collector as he sold a convertible version a couple of weeks ago, the only one in the country, according to the ad.
The seller states that this particular 1982 Toytoa FJ22 Blizzard is a Deluxe model which features a center dash console, better seats and climate control, an automatic glow plug system, and fender flares, among other items not fitted to the standard version. Aftermarket wheels and a bull bar were also fitted. Read the rest of this entry »
Here’s another video from South-African 4×4 expert, Andrew St. Pierre White, showing how to drive in sand, especially in deep tracks.
Thanks thanks for the tip, Greg!
