DirtRoadTrip's Top Ten Overlanding Tips

DirtRoadTrip

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We all love Overlanding and with the Spring season coming up we thought it was the perfect time to share with you guys our Top Ten Overlanding Tips!

Let us know if we forgot anything!

10.) Overlanding Not Car Camping

Get your terminology right! You want your neighbors and co-workers to think you go on adventures, not siting around a fire eating little smokies.



9.) GVWR Is Just A Recommendation

Engineers always incorporate a factor of safety into all of their designs, so don’t even think twice when you’re loading up your fridge, enough water for a hot tub, and your granite counter top for your SnowPeak table. Bonus points for packing most of the gear on the roof rack (see 7…)



8.) Do You Even SnowPeak?

If you have to ask go back to #10. You don’t want to be the guy eating off of aluminum plates and drinking out of the Coleman mug your father gave you. Kick that stuff to the curb and enjoy your whiskey out of a fine titanium mug and your cheese off of a custom cutting board.



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I've been doing it wrong the whole time. Great article, thanks for outlining best practices.

Made me giggle. Like!
 
Shoot...I don't meet most of those requirements. Do I have to turn in my back issues of Overland Journal?
 
Shoot...I don't meet most of those requirements. Do I have to turn in my back issues of Overland Journal?

No but we'll expect you to return your overland robe:

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There should be a rule in there about the minimum number of pockets that are acceptable for overland garments.
 
I think you left out that every overlander should carry enough recovery gear to extract an A1 Abrams from a volcano...and store it on the roof rack for quick access.

-Andy
 
I think you left out that every overlander should carry enough recovery gear to extract an A1 Abrams from a volcano...and store it on the roof rack for quick access.

-Andy
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Use #8058 for a hi lift Jack. Amateur. I did that before breakfast.
 
Is there really such a thing?
I have heard rumors that unless you have at least 8 pockets, you aren't really serious about overland travel.

I have also heard that only Brown, green, tan, or tactical (the color) garments make the approved list.
 
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