Whiskey 7 Backroads

The moment Brent Conklin pulled the Starlink Mini out of its shipping box, he knew something had shifted. Not in a dramatic, clouds-parting way. More like the quiet click of a puzzle piece finding its home after years of forcing the wrong shapes into place. The dish weighed 1.10 kilograms. He could hold it in one hand while pouring coffee with the other. The dimensions read 2...

The button landed on July 14. I want to like this. I really do.

That's the right place to start, because the overlanding crowd has been burned by enough "game-changing" products; the cynicism is earned.

onX is the same app I have open on the iPad between the seats every time the road turns to gravel. It shows me the section lines, the BLM in-holdings, the gate tha...

Last August, friends of mine almost lost a long-planned three-week Oregon trip because of three things that hit them on three different weekends, one in each week of the trip. The first was a Stage 1 fire ban in the Deschutes National Forest. The second was a washed-out forest road in the Ochocos. The third was a smoke forecast that put the air at Unhealthy for Sensitive Grou...

Every July I start seeing the same posts in overlanding forums: "heading to southern Utah next week, anything I should know about monsoon season?" Southwest monsoon flash flood overland safety is the single most important thing to plan for between late June and mid-September across Arizona, New Mexico, southern Utah, and the desert Southwest — and the rain you see is rare...