Great video, I’m new to Eugene Oregon from Hawaii and looking forward to getting further off road. Your trips are a great introduction to what’s waiting
Just wanted to acknowledge the production value, camera quality, and overall level of the videos on this channel. You have made me seriously consider where I can take even my 2015 Subaru Impreza CVT transmission vehicle. You have seriously the production quality of a channel with 100+ thousand subscribers; keep doing what you are doing man
Thank you! As it is I'm surprised to find myself looking towards 10,000...never thought even that many would ever be possible! Have fun out there with the Impreza, and thanks for watching!
YOU got some fantastic shots! This video would have been woefully incomplete without the contributions from you and Erik. And that "outtake" moment must've been THE highlight of the whole trip...SO happy you snagged that!!
Love Chippies and Monteros! I had an 88 Dodge Raider, which, as you probably know, is a 2 dr Montero. The IFS was a bit sqeaky, but the Mitsu 2.6 four was a torquey, abeit, hungry, beast. Although it was a tin top, it reminded me of a larger, more comfortable Samurai. I looked pretty hard at a '94 JDM diesel recently, before settling on upgrading the 92 Hilux. Knee deep in parts, grease and soreness, I still wonder if I made the right choice...
That's awesome, I'm always glad to hear I'm not the only one, LOL. Sleeping in the car is great, I just wish I had a *little* more room in there. Thanks for watching!
I watch a lot of ur. Videos and I wanna come along sometimes to learn more yes I’m a newbie in overlanding off road etc I have an element and want to explore too
Loved that lil slow mo part on the river. it looked soo cool! awesome footage yet again. this trail looked amazing!! Loving all the exterior shots and from different angles! Good job! That is often hard to plan out and set up while out there on the go. one thing that is for sure when I head up there is to bring a chainsaw! i like the latin and acoustic guitar tunes.
Thank you! I definitely find it more challenging to get the drive by shots when I'm out with a group simply because I get worried about annoying everyone. When I'm out solo I stop and film a LOT and I think it would probably grow tiresome for most people. It helped a ton on this trip that Erik was eager to do some filming himself, so he too would stop the convoy at times and set up his camera, plus he obviously also got footage from the Montero while he was driving. Since he wasn't planning to make his own edit, he just turned all his footage over to me, which I am SO grateful for, it really helped me piece the story together much more completely. Anyway, thanks again and I look forward to seeing you and your chainsaw whenever you make it up this way!
Beautiful video as always. Thanks for sharing the adventure. The soundtrack was interesting. Don't know what the lyric was but is sounded like "found a juice bar" which made me laugh as it repeated throughout the video. Keep them coming. I like the idea of you doing a video gear review too. I'd like to know what program you're editing with too. Thanks again. Safe travels.
LOL, "found a juice bar," that's awesome. There's a bit of backstory to that piece of music but long story short, I know the vocalist and will pass this along, she'll love it. :-) I think I *will* do a video that reviews what I'm using to produce the videos. I edit using Adobe Premiere Pro. That was less of a specific choice I made, and more because I already pay the full monthly Adobe Creative Cloud license in order to have InDesign, Photoshop, and Illustrator for my "real" work, so it was a no-brainer to use what I already had access to. Over the past year I've certainly formed some opinions of that too I could share, heh. Thanks for watching!
@@softroadingthewest Her voice is lovely. I just couldn't make out the lyric with my less than perfect hearing. Thanks for the insights into the creative process. Your videos are very inspiring, entertaining and educational.
@@Hapharzardly Oh no worries at all, it's a very imperfect and manipulated sample off what was a very imperfect recording in the first place. The juice bar is my favorite thing to result from this video! :-)
I am from southern Michigan and the trails are flat as a pancake generally with mud holes put in by the mud runners in places. Someday will happen out west.
Subaru question. My 2015 forester keeps the lights on the mirrors on when the hatch is open. Do you run into this issue? If so what did you do to prevent the battery from dying?
My 2012 has no lights on any of the mirrors...all I have to do is switch the middle and rear dome lights off and the hatch can stay open with nothing being illuminated. In fact I just leave them in the OFF position all the time, so I don't forget to switch them off when I'm out camping. I manually turn them on only when I need them. I'm not sure what might be a solution for you. Perhaps finding the switch or sensor on the hatch and bypassing it somehow? Good luck!
Battery won’t die if you leave your Interior lights on 🤣. Specially on a 2015 . Most new cars have a sensor and cuts off all power to anything draining the battery when it passes a limite set by manufacture. And even so I have a 2000 forester left my parking lights on all night it had no problem turning on the next day. But if you want to shut them off look for the fuse box just take the fuse out.
Good question. I've never seen so many deliberately blocked spurs in one day. There are some popular hiking trails nearby so...I dunno...maybe there was too much disrespectful use occurring. They are actually getting ready to implement a permit system for this area to reduce the number of people on the trails each day. Thanks as always for watching and for the kind words!
It's not a specific trail, we crisscrossed the wilderness via numerous roads and detoured countless times when roads we planned to take were blocked or came to an unexpected end. There was a lot of random, "well, this looks interesting, let's turn here." 8^)
A lot. :-) It probably takes me at least three times as long as most people to go a given distance in the wilderness, depending on how scenic it is and thus how often I feel compelled to grab footage. That's part of why I go out solo frequently, because I always feel bad repeatedly stopping my trail buddies (although they're generally happy to oblige because they enjoy seeing the end product).
It's not a specific trail, we crisscrossed the wilderness via numerous Forest Service roads and detoured countless times when routes we planned to take were blocked or came to an unexpected end. There was a lot of random, "well, this looks interesting, let's turn here." 8^)
Awesome. I like your videos, I live in Oregon and I’m always trying to find new trails. It would be cool if you dropped your coordinates on some of the highlights of the trails so that we could find them :)
For a number of reasons, I've had to stop giving out specifics. But anyone can find these places. We found these trails and places without anyone telling us where they were. Planning this trek involved hours of studying various resources in advance, combined with just getting out there and exploring. Note, my research and planning isn't always successful, but the videos would get pretty boring if I showed all the routes we take that don't pan out, the hours of uninteresting driving on dull roads, the miles of backtracking we always end up doing when the initial plan doesn't work, etc. Ultimately I've found that it's far more satisfying to discover some cool spot through my own work rather than just driving to coordinates someone gave me. I may make a video explaining my approach to planning excursions and exploring, so hopefully that counts for something. :-) Thanks for understanding.
I don't think I mentioned it at any point in this series actually so you didn't miss it. On this trip I went down to 25 psi from my usual 40 psi. That's generally what I air down to when I mostly want to soften the ride and gain a little grip across diverse road surfaces but am not tackling anything extreme that might require going lower.
My Forester is a 2012. Subaru didn't put the CVT into the Forester until 2014, so I am fortunate to have the 4EAT, which has been fantastic. While I think the CVT is probably fine for general purpose uses, there is anecdotal evidence that it may be less well suited to regular offroad use, if that's what you have in mind. If you're researching Foresters and CVTs, you've probably already run across JonDZ Adventuring. If not, I would recommend looking through his channel for relevant videos. He has covered the topic of the Subaru CVT probably better than anyone. Good luck with the shopping in any case!
Erik and I both run Gaia GPS, as do most people I know who regularly explore the backcountry. Very useful app, and while I'm known for pinching pennies every place I can, paying the annual subscription for the premium level of Gaia GPS is totally worth it to me...it's an invaluable tool. I do carry paper maps as well, as they can prove useful to get a broader picture than can be clearly seen on a phone or tablet screen. I usually get maps from Forest Service ranger stations in whatever national forest I'm exploring.
Not sure if you're referring to the drive-by shots or the shots ON the exteriors of the vehicles as we roll. A lot of the drive-by shots as well as most of the detail shots (e.g. of setting up the campsite, morning hike, etc) are shot on my Fuji X-Pro2. The clips shot from the vehicles as we roll are mostly shot on GoPro Hero 7 Blacks (both Erik and I each had one along on this trip so there's a lot of GoPro footage in this episode). Some of the drive-by shots were set up by Erik on the GoPro he was using. There are also a handful of clips shot on my aging iPhone 6.The GoPro Hero 7 Black is a fantastic little camera, very useful and captures stuff that would be difficult to shoot with any other camera, though the footage can be a little mushy and it's impossible to get that shallow depth-of-field cinematic look. The Fuji X-Pro2 is a wonderful camera and X-mount Fuji lenses are *spectacular* but it's a kit that is far better suited as a still camera than a video camera. It's just the camera I happened to have when I suddenly found myself making videos. :-) I'm thinking about doing a video about all the recording gear actually and my impression of these devices after using them extensively to produce videos for the past year. A bit off-topic for my channel but I get asked a lot and I certainly have formed some opinions, LOL. Thanks for watching!
@@softroadingthewest thanks for the in-depth reply. Myself and I'm sure others would love to see a video about your recording gear and maybe some BTS on how you mount the the gopros to your forester and set-up your shots along the trails. @jbrezy_foz
Love your videos man keep it up im from australia and really looking into getting a forester as 4x4 are way too expensive. Was wondering if you have the torque locked on your subaru installed? If not it would make for an awesome video and would be cool to see your review on it.
I don't have the torq locker installed. I've seen it in action and it's quite impressive on older Subarus. I'm not certain yet if it will make enough of a difference in my backcountry experience to be worth getting...and dealing with the clicking the rest of the time. I mean, there's no question it would improve my ability to get past certain obstacles, but for the most part, I can get almost everywhere I want to go already anyway. So...that's still up in the air. I have higher priority mods I would spend that money on first. Thanks for watching and for the kind words, and good luck with the Forester shopping! I love watching content from Australia and hope to get down there one day and hit some of those tracks myself!
I couldn't really say with certainty...might guess you'd want a good 7"-8"? I have a little over 10" of clearance under my Forester, which was more than enough for anything we encountered, except for one deceptively large rock that both Erik (in the Montero) and I managed to misjudge and hit while moving at a pretty good pace...sheared off one of my skid plate bolts. That was totally the exception however, I'm sure anything with reasonably decent clearance would be fine nearly everywhere out there as long as one was paying attention and picked careful lines over any tricky bits. Thanks for watching!
You can fan out in just about any direction from Eugene and find BLM or National Forest lands. Most of what I've found has been from just picking a National Forest road and driving up it, exploring the side roads and spurs. There is BLM and National Forest land in the coast range to the west, BLM land in the Coburg Hills northeast of Springfield, and tons of National Forest further northeast, east, southeast.
I hear you and appreciate the honest feedback. I know not everyone likes music on videos (or the music I select, heh) so I totally respect that. Fiddling with the music is one of my favorite elements of video editing so I'll certainly keep doing it (sorry). Out of curiosity, was it simply the fact that there is music which was bothersome, or you just didn't like *this* music, and some music would be okay if it was music you liked? Thank you in any case for trying to watch :-) and for taking a moment to comment, I genuinely appreciate it.
Right?? Erik briefly attempted to reach the stairs, LOL, but ultimately thought better of it. Must have been epic up in that little cabin back in the day!
I got to ride briefly in Jason's Tacoma and...man...that sure is a nice way to travel the backroads. I won't be able to afford one of those anytime soon alas. Oh and that was the first time anyone has ever laid claim to first comment on any of my videos, so you scored a double first there!
You understand that ads are what make it possible for UA-cam creators to make videos for you to watch? Running this channel is literally a full time job, I spend about 40 hours a week doing this. You get to watch for free. UA-cam creators don't earn revenue when ads are skipped or blocked, but that option is there. That said, there shouldn't be 5 commercial breaks in this video. I may have forgotten and left this one on automatic, which allows UA-cam to generate the ad breaks, and I agree, they put in far too many. I normally edit the ad breaks to only happen once or maybe twice on a long video, and at logical points. I will take a look at the ad setup on this one.
Hmm...I did go back and look at the settings on this video. There are supposed to be only two ad breaks. Ads should also roll beginning and end. The video was interrupted five times while it was playing?
Absolutely spot on again! Loved all the creek crossings. Sure is beautiful country and you do such an amazing job of capturing it for us!
Great video, I’m new to Eugene Oregon from Hawaii and looking forward to getting further off road. Your trips are a great introduction to what’s waiting
Welcome to Eugene! Awesome places to explore fanning out in every direction from here. See you around at some point I imagine!
Just wanted to acknowledge the production value, camera quality, and overall level of the videos on this channel. You have made me seriously consider where I can take even my 2015 Subaru Impreza CVT transmission vehicle. You have seriously the production quality of a channel with 100+ thousand subscribers; keep doing what you are doing man
Thank you! As it is I'm surprised to find myself looking towards 10,000...never thought even that many would ever be possible! Have fun out there with the Impreza, and thanks for watching!
Thank you for showcasing our beautiful state. Your videos are fun to watch and are expertly shot and edited.
Thank you for the kind words!
great water crossings
Wow! That looked fantastic! So many perfect views of the sisters 👍🏼 I loved the creek crossings, glad you found the trail!
Thanks Shawn, we wished you could have been out there with us on this one!
Always like the videos with company especially in all different types of vehicles from subarus to other cars trucks and SUVs all great stuff
Digging the angles and editing 👍. Looks like you all had an awesome adventure exploring one of the most beautiful parts of Oregon! 🍻
Thanks! It was a nice little adventure and some terrific scenery for sure!
What a trip!! Thanks for sharing!
Your videos are addicting. Excellent work my fellow Forester driver. 😁
I love the trekking poles to stand up the wood board.
You got some fantastic shots! I especially love the “outtake” at the end 😆
YOU got some fantastic shots! This video would have been woefully incomplete without the contributions from you and Erik. And that "outtake" moment must've been THE highlight of the whole trip...SO happy you snagged that!!
Amazing Crossing at 7:30
3 badass rigs right there
Love Chippies and Monteros! I had an 88 Dodge Raider, which, as you probably know, is a 2 dr Montero. The IFS was a bit sqeaky, but the Mitsu 2.6 four was a torquey, abeit, hungry, beast. Although it was a tin top, it reminded me of a larger, more comfortable Samurai.
I looked pretty hard at a '94 JDM diesel recently, before settling on upgrading the 92 Hilux. Knee deep in parts, grease and soreness, I still wonder if I made the right choice...
I could be persuaded to own one of those shorty Monteros. I'm a fan of the Jimny, but something a little bigger makes a little more sense.
Very inspiring. I have a Hyundai Tucson 2wd....yes I camp in it lol.
That's awesome, I'm always glad to hear I'm not the only one, LOL. Sleeping in the car is great, I just wish I had a *little* more room in there. Thanks for watching!
I watch a lot of ur. Videos and I wanna come along sometimes to learn more yes I’m a newbie in overlanding off road etc I have an element and want to explore too
Epic journey.
Nice very well put together love seeing all the local terrain of eastern Oregon one of my favorite places since I am a local Oregonian!
Thanks for watching and the kind words!
Great video man! Was such a fun trip!
It was a fantastic trip and I had so much fun editing this one. Thanks again for all the awesome footage, it really helped pull this video together.
wow, some point of view !! i buy it
Très sympa ce tracé! Et surprenant!
Vous avez du regarder plusieurs fois vos cartes quand le chemins donnait sur ce cours d'eau! 😃
Il est fort possible que j'avais choisi ce chemin parce que j'avais remarqué sur la carte que ça donnait sur un cours d'eau… ;-)
Ouh le tricheur! 😂👍
Loved that lil slow mo part on the river. it looked soo cool! awesome footage yet again. this trail looked amazing!! Loving all the exterior shots and from different angles! Good job! That is often hard to plan out and set up while out there on the go. one thing that is for sure when I head up there is to bring a chainsaw! i like the latin and acoustic guitar tunes.
Thank you! I definitely find it more challenging to get the drive by shots when I'm out with a group simply because I get worried about annoying everyone. When I'm out solo I stop and film a LOT and I think it would probably grow tiresome for most people. It helped a ton on this trip that Erik was eager to do some filming himself, so he too would stop the convoy at times and set up his camera, plus he obviously also got footage from the Montero while he was driving. Since he wasn't planning to make his own edit, he just turned all his footage over to me, which I am SO grateful for, it really helped me piece the story together much more completely. Anyway, thanks again and I look forward to seeing you and your chainsaw whenever you make it up this way!
Beautiful video as always. Thanks for sharing the adventure. The soundtrack was interesting. Don't know what the lyric was but is sounded like "found a juice bar" which made me laugh as it repeated throughout the video. Keep them coming. I like the idea of you doing a video gear review too. I'd like to know what program you're editing with too. Thanks again. Safe travels.
LOL, "found a juice bar," that's awesome. There's a bit of backstory to that piece of music but long story short, I know the vocalist and will pass this along, she'll love it. :-) I think I *will* do a video that reviews what I'm using to produce the videos. I edit using Adobe Premiere Pro. That was less of a specific choice I made, and more because I already pay the full monthly Adobe Creative Cloud license in order to have InDesign, Photoshop, and Illustrator for my "real" work, so it was a no-brainer to use what I already had access to. Over the past year I've certainly formed some opinions of that too I could share, heh. Thanks for watching!
@@softroadingthewest Her voice is lovely. I just couldn't make out the lyric with my less than perfect hearing. Thanks for the insights into the creative process. Your videos are very inspiring, entertaining and educational.
@@Hapharzardly Oh no worries at all, it's a very imperfect and manipulated sample off what was a very imperfect recording in the first place. The juice bar is my favorite thing to result from this video! :-)
18:12 that little guy wanted a ride hey wait dont leave me
Great Adventure! Love the way you mixed up the filmmaking tools. Last shot made me spit up my tea.
Haha, we spent the rest of the night laughing about that moment over and over. :-)
Great video as always and I wasn’t late for work lol.
Your spoiled with all those trails! LOL 😂 Nice job.
We are! We are very fortunate across the western U.S. to have massive expanses of public lands at our disposal.
I am from southern Michigan and the trails are flat as a pancake generally with mud holes put in by the mud runners in places. Someday will happen out west.
That Toyota looks badass!!!
It's a niiiiice rig. I got to ride in it briefly. Made it painful to get back in my Forester, heh.
@@softroadingthewest Oh come on... Thats the point of offroading with Subaru, its more challenging and thats the fun!
Subaru question. My 2015 forester keeps the lights on the mirrors on when the hatch is open. Do you run into this issue? If so what did you do to prevent the battery from dying?
My 2012 has no lights on any of the mirrors...all I have to do is switch the middle and rear dome lights off and the hatch can stay open with nothing being illuminated. In fact I just leave them in the OFF position all the time, so I don't forget to switch them off when I'm out camping. I manually turn them on only when I need them.
I'm not sure what might be a solution for you. Perhaps finding the switch or sensor on the hatch and bypassing it somehow? Good luck!
Battery won’t die if you leave your Interior lights on 🤣. Specially on a 2015 . Most new cars have a sensor and cuts off all power to anything draining the battery when it passes a limite set by manufacture. And even so I have a 2000 forester left my parking lights on all night it had no problem turning on the next day. But if you want to shut them off look for the fuse box just take the fuse out.
Great video of a great off road adventure. Your videos keep getting better and better. I wonder why they blocked off the camp areas?
Good question. I've never seen so many deliberately blocked spurs in one day. There are some popular hiking trails nearby so...I dunno...maybe there was too much disrespectful use occurring. They are actually getting ready to implement a permit system for this area to reduce the number of people on the trails each day. Thanks as always for watching and for the kind words!
Great vid man as always. Thanks for the kismet way shout out 🙏
Thank YOU! We're gonna hear more Kismet Way for real very soon, I can't wait!
Hey I live not to far from there what trail is this??
It's not a specific trail, we crisscrossed the wilderness via numerous roads and detoured countless times when roads we planned to take were blocked or came to an unexpected end. There was a lot of random, "well, this looks interesting, let's turn here." 8^)
How much time is spent on setting up and retrieving the cameras for the drive by shots??? lolol
A lot. :-) It probably takes me at least three times as long as most people to go a given distance in the wilderness, depending on how scenic it is and thus how often I feel compelled to grab footage. That's part of why I go out solo frequently, because I always feel bad repeatedly stopping my trail buddies (although they're generally happy to oblige because they enjoy seeing the end product).
What is this trail called
It's not a specific trail, we crisscrossed the wilderness via numerous Forest Service roads and detoured countless times when routes we planned to take were blocked or came to an unexpected end. There was a lot of random, "well, this looks interesting, let's turn here." 8^)
Awesome. I like your videos, I live in Oregon and I’m always trying to find new trails. It would be cool if you dropped your coordinates on some of the highlights of the trails so that we could find them :)
For a number of reasons, I've had to stop giving out specifics. But anyone can find these places. We found these trails and places without anyone telling us where they were. Planning this trek involved hours of studying various resources in advance, combined with just getting out there and exploring. Note, my research and planning isn't always successful, but the videos would get pretty boring if I showed all the routes we take that don't pan out, the hours of uninteresting driving on dull roads, the miles of backtracking we always end up doing when the initial plan doesn't work, etc. Ultimately I've found that it's far more satisfying to discover some cool spot through my own work rather than just driving to coordinates someone gave me. I may make a video explaining my approach to planning excursions and exploring, so hopefully that counts for something. :-) Thanks for understanding.
Sorry if I missed it in the video but what psi did you air down to ?
I don't think I mentioned it at any point in this series actually so you didn't miss it. On this trip I went down to 25 psi from my usual 40 psi. That's generally what I air down to when I mostly want to soften the ride and gain a little grip across diverse road surfaces but am not tackling anything extreme that might require going lower.
Thanks! :)
I do really enjoy your videos! I am looking to buy a Subaru forester 2015-16. I wanted to ask you how is your CVT holding up?
My Forester is a 2012. Subaru didn't put the CVT into the Forester until 2014, so I am fortunate to have the 4EAT, which has been fantastic. While I think the CVT is probably fine for general purpose uses, there is anecdotal evidence that it may be less well suited to regular offroad use, if that's what you have in mind.
If you're researching Foresters and CVTs, you've probably already run across JonDZ Adventuring. If not, I would recommend looking through his channel for relevant videos. He has covered the topic of the Subaru CVT probably better than anyone. Good luck with the shopping in any case!
@@softroadingthewest thank you. that is very helpful.
@@softroadingthewest What would you consider a good millage for a 2012-13 forester?
What kind of GPS are u all running? And maps
Erik and I both run Gaia GPS, as do most people I know who regularly explore the backcountry. Very useful app, and while I'm known for pinching pennies every place I can, paying the annual subscription for the premium level of Gaia GPS is totally worth it to me...it's an invaluable tool. I do carry paper maps as well, as they can prove useful to get a broader picture than can be clearly seen on a phone or tablet screen. I usually get maps from Forest Service ranger stations in whatever national forest I'm exploring.
Thanx for the Info have a great day.
Another great video. What camera do you use to shoot the different exterior angles?
Not sure if you're referring to the drive-by shots or the shots ON the exteriors of the vehicles as we roll. A lot of the drive-by shots as well as most of the detail shots (e.g. of setting up the campsite, morning hike, etc) are shot on my Fuji X-Pro2. The clips shot from the vehicles as we roll are mostly shot on GoPro Hero 7 Blacks (both Erik and I each had one along on this trip so there's a lot of GoPro footage in this episode). Some of the drive-by shots were set up by Erik on the GoPro he was using. There are also a handful of clips shot on my aging iPhone 6.The GoPro Hero 7 Black is a fantastic little camera, very useful and captures stuff that would be difficult to shoot with any other camera, though the footage can be a little mushy and it's impossible to get that shallow depth-of-field cinematic look. The Fuji X-Pro2 is a wonderful camera and X-mount Fuji lenses are *spectacular* but it's a kit that is far better suited as a still camera than a video camera. It's just the camera I happened to have when I suddenly found myself making videos. :-) I'm thinking about doing a video about all the recording gear actually and my impression of these devices after using them extensively to produce videos for the past year. A bit off-topic for my channel but I get asked a lot and I certainly have formed some opinions, LOL. Thanks for watching!
@@softroadingthewest thanks for the in-depth reply. Myself and I'm sure others would love to see a video about your recording gear and maybe some BTS on how you mount the the gopros to your forester and set-up your shots along the trails. @jbrezy_foz
Love your videos man keep it up im from australia and really looking into getting a forester as 4x4 are way too expensive. Was wondering if you have the torque locked on your subaru installed? If not it would make for an awesome video and would be cool to see your review on it.
I don't have the torq locker installed. I've seen it in action and it's quite impressive on older Subarus. I'm not certain yet if it will make enough of a difference in my backcountry experience to be worth getting...and dealing with the clicking the rest of the time. I mean, there's no question it would improve my ability to get past certain obstacles, but for the most part, I can get almost everywhere I want to go already anyway. So...that's still up in the air. I have higher priority mods I would spend that money on first. Thanks for watching and for the kind words, and good luck with the Forester shopping! I love watching content from Australia and hope to get down there one day and hit some of those tracks myself!
Great video man. What do you think the minimal ground clearance is for this trail?
I couldn't really say with certainty...might guess you'd want a good 7"-8"? I have a little over 10" of clearance under my Forester, which was more than enough for anything we encountered, except for one deceptively large rock that both Erik (in the Montero) and I managed to misjudge and hit while moving at a pretty good pace...sheared off one of my skid plate bolts. That was totally the exception however, I'm sure anything with reasonably decent clearance would be fine nearly everywhere out there as long as one was paying attention and picked careful lines over any tricky bits. Thanks for watching!
i live in Eugene Oregon what places can i find good drives
You can fan out in just about any direction from Eugene and find BLM or National Forest lands. Most of what I've found has been from just picking a National Forest road and driving up it, exploring the side roads and spurs. There is BLM and National Forest land in the coast range to the west, BLM land in the Coburg Hills northeast of Springfield, and tons of National Forest further northeast, east, southeast.
Bro , what the size your wheels? Thanks
hello from Russia))
15x7 +15 Hello from the western U.S.! :-) Thanks for watching!
@@softroadingthewest and what size tire? 225/70 16?
you inspired me!))
@@Bam13boy 215/75/15
Soundtrack made it hard to get through the first 7 minutes of this video.. Gave it a thumbs up anyway..
I hear you and appreciate the honest feedback. I know not everyone likes music on videos (or the music I select, heh) so I totally respect that. Fiddling with the music is one of my favorite elements of video editing so I'll certainly keep doing it (sorry). Out of curiosity, was it simply the fact that there is music which was bothersome, or you just didn't like *this* music, and some music would be okay if it was music you liked? Thank you in any case for trying to watch :-) and for taking a moment to comment, I genuinely appreciate it.
Too bad the fire tower was so badly out of commission. If the view was that good at the bottom, image the top!
Right?? Erik briefly attempted to reach the stairs, LOL, but ultimately thought better of it. Must have been epic up in that little cabin back in the day!
Look you must be P-C, if the path identifies as a road, call it a road, it is not a stream. :)
Nice scenery, crappy music..why?
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lol jesus dude you have been taking collab to another level. Love the sisters views. Oh man, the tacoma, I want one...
I got to ride briefly in Jason's Tacoma and...man...that sure is a nice way to travel the backroads. I won't be able to afford one of those anytime soon alas.
Oh and that was the first time anyone has ever laid claim to first comment on any of my videos, so you scored a double first there!
@@softroadingthewest Like I said Ahsoka and I just go around Oregon marking territory lol
@@MattCookOregon LOLOL, marking "first," the 21st century equivalent of peeing on a bush, LOL
5 COMMERCIALS DURING SHOWING. WORSE THAN TV ADS.
You understand that ads are what make it possible for UA-cam creators to make videos for you to watch? Running this channel is literally a full time job, I spend about 40 hours a week doing this. You get to watch for free. UA-cam creators don't earn revenue when ads are skipped or blocked, but that option is there.
That said, there shouldn't be 5 commercial breaks in this video. I may have forgotten and left this one on automatic, which allows UA-cam to generate the ad breaks, and I agree, they put in far too many. I normally edit the ad breaks to only happen once or maybe twice on a long video, and at logical points. I will take a look at the ad setup on this one.
Hmm...I did go back and look at the settings on this video. There are supposed to be only two ad breaks. Ads should also roll beginning and end. The video was interrupted five times while it was playing?