Man your production and editing is perfect, just a textbook example of exactly how it's supposed to be done. Several pro UA-camrs should be watching your channel to see how it's done. Audio at perfect levels the entire time, music that contributes well and doesn't distract. Perfect transitions between segments, nothing jarring or disjointed. Phenomenal. Can't imagine how long it takes to edit and put together these videos. It's definitely noticed, and we appreciate it so much.
Amazing video Donald! One of your better in my humble opinion. Thanks for posting. Glad you got to meet up with other like-minded adventurers. Keep them coming!
Those $60-80 jumpers are great for flat batteries. Mine holds a charge for a year or better and I've gotten 4-5 jumps before recharging (Topping off). I do not carry jumper cables anymore. That trail looks like a blast.
Good afternoon Donald what a great video and very good content looks like you all had a great time on your trip and seeing you take your rig threw some of those trails you all did outstanding job this is definitely a memory to talk about down the road over campfires thank for sharing
Man!!! I love it , perfect for you my brother. You’re gonna make great memories with that camper seems to be the perfect size for your truck and for yourself safe travels👍🏾
@@grey-adventures I have a jump box I can use if I’m out by myself but it’s packed fairly deep. Jumper cables are super fast & easy if I’m with other people.
Thanks Edward, it was a good trip with good people for sure. I really need to spend more time exploring this area. Seems like it would be pretty easy for someone from Vancouver to meet me there too. :-)
Great video, Donald. I've only explored a bit around that (awesome) mountain but I've been to the "dispersed camping/posing" area many times and it seems each time I go the water channel is following a different course! You all did a great job handling the rocks. As for the trees, a tree-saver trap or 2 and a couple of "pulleys" might be handy to have along so you can pull from a different angle. As for the first bit in Central Oregon that is fairly near home so I know I have been on some of those roads. (Thanks for clearing the trees for us! LOL)
nice stuff. it's good to see how many people use the falken wildpeak at3w tires and they do so well. i have a set and love them. i also have a set of super swampers and they are on another level. loud as you know what but super is appropriate.
Thanks for the ride along. Looks like your truck handled everything really well. Well, except for needing a jump start in the morning. I carry a small portable pwr pack about the size of a large cell ph. Cost less than $60 and can't tell you how many times I have used it at trail heads, parking lots, the back country, and home. It's got black pen marks all over it for each jump. Essential for being off road by yourself.
Great experience/ trail I do miss my 4x4 days tho nothing really like this in the Uk . ( there are always Critics the main thing is safely and enjoyably you use the tools you have )
5:02??!!! Wut thats just crazy...Its a good thing you had backup. I invested in a Zeak 3500lb winch ($80) for stuff like this. You dont need any fancy connects. Just a good jumper cable type clamp and a d ring mount/trailer hitch mount. Good stuff!
Looks like fun. I recently ordered some Asfir4x4 skids for our '22 diesel Colorado. I haven't installed them yet, but they sure look impressive coming out of the box!
Except it’s not easy-peasy or I would have done that long ago. The canopy is sealed to the truck bed rails (and the bulbs are not accessible from inside the cab). To remove the bulbs, the canopy has to get lifted off, all the adhesive weather sealing removed and then replaced to re-seat the canopy. The simpler solution has been to just be careful, and I’m usually fine. 🙂
Thanks for not giving away this “primitive rocky campsite” we go there almost every weekend and enjoy seeing the many photographers come and go to get their shots.
Personally I wouldn't worry about what someone says on Instagram you have to be able to adapt when things come up unexpectedly. Sure the rope might get damaged but it can be replaced. And there are going to come times that it might not be the safest way to do something bit that's a part of being out there. And as always great video!!
You need to buy a yuccapac camper for your frontier!!!!! I’ve followed all your Subaru stuff I’m in a fozzy rn but was looking at these! But ya yuccapac campers and blindman overland
Great job I enjoyed the video. I thought you had a battery jumper that a manufacture had given you about a year or so. Did you give up on it and switch to battery cables? Glad you were with other campers when battery went dead. Take care and be safe!!
I do still have the jump starter, it's just packed well away. I can dig it out if needed in a solo emergency, but I always (usually) also carry jumper cables and they're just much easier to get to. :-)
Not worth the trouble. It's only a problem if I sit in camp for 3 or 4 days, which I almost never do, and usually I can even manage that by simply remembering to switch that light off most of the time. I had too many distractions here and it got away from me. :-)
Well, I was aired down, so that's normal. It actually switches back off when I re-inflate to the proper pressure. How old is your Xterra? My understanding is that the TPMS sensors don't last forever and have to be replaced eventually.
My X is a 2007 and the tpms light is always on. I've had new tires put on and new tpms things put on and the light cleared, but it always seems to come back on a couple days later.
Is there not a switch like in Tacomas that will keep your lights off? Maybe since you don’t need your Third Brake Light and bed lights you could disconnect/unplug them.
I can manually switch them off AFTER they come on, but there's no full off position...I can't completely disable them with the switch, they always come back on next time any door is opened. There is no access to the bulbs or wiring from the interior...the canopy needs to be removed in order for me to do anything about it, and that's an even bigger headache because it is sealed to the truck bed with adhesive weather stripping which would get torn apart and need to be replaced. It's generally not a major issue because I very very rarely camp in one spot for more than one night. It takes three or four days of sitting with that light coming on repeatedly to kill the battery, so I just *try* to remember to switch it off. I just didn't get on it often enough here. :-)
You need to get yourself a lithium jump pack pretty small and don't take up much room. I have just got one as I am starting to do a lot more remote outback touring
I have the Jackery cables. They function as charging cables, not jumper cables. I could.be wrong, but Idon't think the Jackery batteries have enough quick discharge to jump start.
wait your from central oregon? i just bought my frontier and i live in C/O off the lot its a 2014 pro 4x and ive been watching your page to learn more about my frontier
Like others have said you need one of those lithium jump boxes I have one in every vehicle and don't even have jumper cables anymore. Have used it on myself at a trailhead once and at least 10 times for other people over the last 2 years. think I paid $50 for it.
And as I replied to the others who said that, I do have a jump pack, it's just buried a little deeper in my truck than my jumper cables (usually) are, so I reach for the cables first when I have friends nearby.
That looked like an awesome adventure! 👌 Those trails made me wonder... About how much of the time would you say the trails would be passible with your old Forester (not necessarily including this trip)? I just wonder if a Forester would get you to 50%... 80%... of the places you go with the Frontier? Clearly there were some serious challenges on this trip. Cheers!
I’d say the Forester would go to 95% of the places I have since gone with the Frontier. It’s rare that I encounter truly gnarly bits where the low range and larger tires of the Frontier make a difference, at least in Oregon. Obviously I’m more focused on backcountry exploration than “wheeling” so I don’t go seeking gnarly stuff like some people do. But when I DO encounter something tricky, it’s sooooo nice to drop into low range and slowly, calmly climb right up. 🙂
Jackery battery isn't designed for that kind of draw, and would be damaged by doing so. One of the capacitor jump boxes, charged off the 12v port of the Jackery, would be a good option.
I have a set of cables from Jackery, but they're strictly for recharging, not jumping. Presumably because they don't have the rapid discharge rate needed for jump starting.
How about Braxton gets up real early and the rest of the group meets up with him after 9am? :) Donald, you know you've made it when the scammers 'whatsapp' your channel.🤣🤣
They pulled in reverse. That's not good for the differential's ring and pinion. The strength is engineered for forward, they're FAR weaker going in reverse.
@@J.Young808 I’m not a big fan of diesel . They always seem noisy . Not as smooth . Seem more expensive to work on yes more MPG more torque but the gas I’ve had never had a problem. Not sure what is going to happen here our government want gas and diesel no longer sold new after 2030
It was Cristin’s rope, I believe it’s from Deadman Offroad. Not sure how it could be a set up or what possible reason we would have to do so. We were out here on a skid plate photoshoot. I am partnered with Yankum but they strictly forbid any kind of set up using their products. It’s not the kind of thing I do on my channel. I just shoot what actually happens.
The Noco Boost is small, maybe the size of your hand. I keep it handy (in a backpack that goes most places with me) and transfer it between my car, my motorcycles, the wife's car, and any fleet vehicle I borrow from work. Had to use it a number of times and love it.
@softroadingthewest rims, I wanted a lil more firmer ride since I mostly DD this thing but also want it to keep me from getting stuck in the snow and probably do some light offroading . Plans our 20s with 275/55 or 275/60 . Trying to keep the overall stock diameter.
Well generally for best off-road performance, you want to maximize sidewall. This allows you to air down and still have plenty of tire between the rocks and your rims...on that first trail in this video, we were all aired down to around 15 psi, something you could not do with a low-profile tire. It's not strictly _impossible_ to use a lower-profile tire for mild dirt roads, but there's a reason you'll notice most rigs that regularly go offroad tend to have smaller diameter rims, in order to fit the maximum amount of rubber into the remaining space. Most quality all-terrain tires have thicker, sturdier sidewalls than typical highway tires. Aired up, I have no need for them to be any firmer. My truck definitely does not corner like a sports car, but I guess one has to decide what their priority is, or find some kind of middle ground compromise. :-) Good luck!
Man your production and editing is perfect, just a textbook example of exactly how it's supposed to be done. Several pro UA-camrs should be watching your channel to see how it's done. Audio at perfect levels the entire time, music that contributes well and doesn't distract. Perfect transitions between segments, nothing jarring or disjointed. Phenomenal. Can't imagine how long it takes to edit and put together these videos. It's definitely noticed, and we appreciate it so much.
Thank you, I appreciate that. 🙂
I’ll second this statement!!🤙
I'll third it
Gibby
Love your Xterra!! Awesome rigs!! I got Pro-4X also. Amazing video. Thanks for sharing!!
Great vid of the shelf roads - especially the extra rocky ones begging for a slide. Great to see the Xterra tell the trail who’s boss.
Now that's what vacation looks like to me! Great post!
What a great community to be a part of! That’s gotta be one of the best thing about finding a common interest is the camaraderie amongst all of you.
Always nice see the second gens Going strong
Great video Donald. Nice to see a fellow X on the trail!
Great video, Donald. I’m glad you’re getting some sponsorship love.
Amazing video Donald! One of your better in my humble opinion. Thanks for posting. Glad you got to meet up with other like-minded adventurers. Keep them coming!
Those certainly looked like some fun roads! Thanks for sharing the ride with us. See you next time! George.
Those $60-80 jumpers are great for flat batteries. Mine holds a charge for a year or better and I've gotten 4-5 jumps before recharging (Topping off). I do not carry jumper cables anymore. That trail looks like a blast.
I have a jump box I can use if I’m out by myself but my jumper cables are (usually) easier to get to and fast & easy if I’m with other people.
what brand and where did you get it? i need one badly
Thanks Donald. Beautiful ,well done.
Good afternoon Donald what a great video and very good content looks like you all had a great time on your trip and seeing you take your rig threw some of those trails you all did outstanding job this is definitely a memory to talk about down the road over campfires thank for sharing
Wow, that was amazing. Special times. Great videography and edit. Thanks for sharing.
Man!!! I love it , perfect for you my brother. You’re gonna make great memories with that camper seems to be the perfect size for your truck and for yourself safe travels👍🏾
I love that shot where you have the most awe inspiring scenic backdrop ever and everyone has their heads buried in their gadgets
That was fun :) Great video Donald!
Thank YOU for pulling this trip together. I had a blast, and it was nice to spend some time hanging out with you guys beyond an Expo booth. :-)
You have some awesome adventures!! Thanks for sharing and keep up the good work!!
Exceptional.
very cool and unique experience...building memories
great vid. looks like a great trip. Nice to see a few different rigs and setups!
The Tacoma made it look easy, but all of you did well,my prius would make it just a little up trailhead. Awesome adventures.
Nice job guys and gals.
Great video, looks like a lot of fun
Love the content and the nissans keep it up Donald
Why in this day are you still using jumper cables. Please go get a lithium powered jump box and convert your lights to LEDs.
@@grey-adventures I have a jump box I can use if I’m out by myself but it’s packed fairly deep. Jumper cables are super fast & easy if I’m with other people.
@@grey-adventures Oh and the lights are inaccessible because the canopy is sealed to the truck bed or I would have pulled those bulbs long ago.
Looks like a great time with an awesome group of people 🤙
Thanks Edward, it was a good trip with good people for sure. I really need to spend more time exploring this area. Seems like it would be pretty easy for someone from Vancouver to meet me there too. :-)
@@softroadingthewest yes, yes it would! Just let me know when! 🙌🍻
Love seeing the video come out after seeing the teasers on all of the IG pages. Well worth the wait.
Truely entertaining Donald. Thank you for sharing that adventure. Regards Mario. 🇦🇺
Definitely love my ASFIR skids on my Pathfinder!
Great video, Donald. I've only explored a bit around that (awesome) mountain but I've been to the "dispersed camping/posing" area many times and it seems each time I go the water channel is following a different course! You all did a great job handling the rocks. As for the trees, a tree-saver trap or 2 and a couple of "pulleys" might be handy to have along so you can pull from a different angle. As for the first bit in Central Oregon that is fairly near home so I know I have been on some of those roads. (Thanks for clearing the trees for us! LOL)
Amazing visitas!
Wheeling my house 😻
Bloody stunning country ❤️love it Donald
Well done. Thank you.
Beautiful scenery! 🔥
nice stuff. it's good to see how many people use the falken wildpeak at3w tires and they do so well. i have a set and love them. i also have a set of super swampers and they are on another level. loud as you know what but super is appropriate.
Thanks for the ride along. Looks like your truck handled everything really well. Well, except for needing a jump start in the morning. I carry a small portable pwr pack about the size of a large cell ph. Cost less than $60 and can't tell you how many times I have used it at trail heads, parking lots, the back country, and home. It's got black pen marks all over it for each jump. Essential for being off road by yourself.
I have one, it’s just more buried than my jumper cables. 😄
awesome time
Great video!
Great experience/ trail I do miss my 4x4 days tho nothing really like this in the Uk . ( there are always Critics the main thing is safely and enjoyably you use the tools you have )
Hahaha, my Frontier died at the Expo as well. Love that bed light:(
5:02??!!! Wut thats just crazy...Its a good thing you had backup. I invested in a Zeak 3500lb winch ($80) for stuff like this. You dont need any fancy connects. Just a good jumper cable type clamp and a d ring mount/trailer hitch mount. Good stuff!
woohoo, Xterra action
great video!
Too bad Nissan stopped producing the Xterra, it was a great little (and ver capable) SUV.
Views are something else
Gibby
Looks like fun. I recently ordered some Asfir4x4 skids for our '22 diesel Colorado. I haven't installed them yet, but they sure look impressive coming out of the box!
Excellent show my friend
Thanks Cindy! Great meeting you this weekend!
I can’t believe how good the frontier performed in this, I went and bought one because of this video
Great video 👍
Easy peasy remedy for the bed lights - pull the bulbs and stash them if desired in the glove box.
Except it’s not easy-peasy or I would have done that long ago. The canopy is sealed to the truck bed rails (and the bulbs are not accessible from inside the cab). To remove the bulbs, the canopy has to get lifted off, all the adhesive weather sealing removed and then replaced to re-seat the canopy. The simpler solution has been to just be careful, and I’m usually fine. 🙂
Thanks for not giving away this “primitive rocky campsite” we go there almost every weekend and enjoy seeing the many photographers come and go to get their shots.
For sure. I never include location specifics, although this is spot is preeeeetty easy to stumble upon. :-)
Personally I wouldn't worry about what someone says on Instagram you have to be able to adapt when things come up unexpectedly. Sure the rope might get damaged but it can be replaced. And there are going to come times that it might not be the safest way to do something bit that's a part of being out there.
And as always great video!!
It's puling in reverse that's the problem. Potentially VERY bad for the diff. I learned the hard way, sheared some teeth off a ring gear.
@@solosaga5091 I can't remember seeing any places to turn around. I get what your saying but they had no choice from the looks of it.
That Xterra is a beast
It is!
You need to buy a yuccapac camper for your frontier!!!!! I’ve followed all your Subaru stuff I’m in a fozzy rn but was looking at these! But ya yuccapac campers and blindman overland
Great job I enjoyed the video. I thought you had a battery jumper that a manufacture had given you about a year or so. Did you give up on it and switch to battery cables? Glad you were with other campers when battery went dead. Take care and be safe!!
I do still have the jump starter, it's just packed well away. I can dig it out if needed in a solo emergency, but I always (usually) also carry jumper cables and they're just much easier to get to. :-)
What about pulling the head liner in the cab out to unplug the 3rd tail light plug from the inside.
Not worth the trouble. It's only a problem if I sit in camp for 3 or 4 days, which I almost never do, and usually I can even manage that by simply remembering to switch that light off most of the time. I had too many distractions here and it got away from me. :-)
So this is what all the drama was about, eh? If you had just bought a jump starter pack... 🤣🤣😇
Haha! :-)
Wish we could rally together and convince @nissan to make you an ambassador for the new Frontier.
Ahhhhhh, the Nissan tire inflation light is on..........so it is always on on my Xterra too.
Well, I was aired down, so that's normal. It actually switches back off when I re-inflate to the proper pressure. How old is your Xterra? My understanding is that the TPMS sensors don't last forever and have to be replaced eventually.
My X is a 2007 and the tpms light is always on. I've had new tires put on and new tpms things put on and the light cleared, but it always seems to come back on a couple days later.
Is there not a switch like in Tacomas that will keep your lights off? Maybe since you don’t need your Third Brake Light and bed lights you could disconnect/unplug them.
I can manually switch them off AFTER they come on, but there's no full off position...I can't completely disable them with the switch, they always come back on next time any door is opened. There is no access to the bulbs or wiring from the interior...the canopy needs to be removed in order for me to do anything about it, and that's an even bigger headache because it is sealed to the truck bed with adhesive weather stripping which would get torn apart and need to be replaced.
It's generally not a major issue because I very very rarely camp in one spot for more than one night. It takes three or four days of sitting with that light coming on repeatedly to kill the battery, so I just *try* to remember to switch it off. I just didn't get on it often enough here. :-)
You need to get yourself a lithium jump pack pretty small and don't take up much room. I have just got one as I am starting to do a lot more remote outback touring
I have a jump pack, it's just buried a little deeper in my truck than my jumper cables (usually) are. 🙂
Lookin' good Donald. Mt Hood: very impressive.
I just have a portable power bank that I can jump the truck, weighs like 2 lbs. Jackery also sells the jumper cables to attach to the power bank.
I have a jump box, it’s just packed fairly deep as a last resort. * shrug * Jumper cables are also fast & easy. 🙂
I have the Jackery cables. They function as charging cables, not jumper cables. I could.be wrong, but Idon't think the Jackery batteries have enough quick discharge to jump start.
wait your from central oregon? i just bought my frontier and i live in C/O off the lot its a 2014 pro 4x and ive been watching your page to learn more about my frontier
I'm in Eugene, but often travel over to central Oregon.
Like others have said you need one of those lithium jump boxes I have one in every vehicle and don't even have jumper cables anymore. Have used it on myself at a trailhead once and at least 10 times for other people over the last 2 years. think I paid $50 for it.
And as I replied to the others who said that, I do have a jump pack, it's just buried a little deeper in my truck than my jumper cables (usually) are, so I reach for the cables first when I have friends nearby.
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Spamanator!
That looked like an awesome adventure! 👌
Those trails made me wonder... About how much of the time would you say the trails would be passible with your old Forester (not necessarily including this trip)? I just wonder if a Forester would get you to 50%... 80%... of the places you go with the Frontier? Clearly there were some serious challenges on this trip.
Cheers!
I’d say the Forester would go to 95% of the places I have since gone with the Frontier. It’s rare that I encounter truly gnarly bits where the low range and larger tires of the Frontier make a difference, at least in Oregon. Obviously I’m more focused on backcountry exploration than “wheeling” so I don’t go seeking gnarly stuff like some people do. But when I DO encounter something tricky, it’s sooooo nice to drop into low range and slowly, calmly climb right up. 🙂
Jackery should come out with a car jumper adapter you could plug into your existing unit just in case
Jackery battery isn't designed for that kind of draw, and would be damaged by doing so. One of the capacitor jump boxes, charged off the 12v port of the Jackery, would be a good option.
I have a set of cables from Jackery, but they're strictly for recharging, not jumping. Presumably because they don't have the rapid discharge rate needed for jump starting.
Donald, are you still loving those Wildpeaks?
So far so good! No complaints, they've done great on the trail and seem a little nicer on the highway than the KO2s.
Great Video--how do you like your new tires?
They have performed very well on the trail so far and seem a little quieter on the road than the KO2s were.
What year it’s your frontier
2011, though the Frontier was largely unchanged from 2005 to 2021.
How about Braxton gets up real early and the rest of the group meets up with him after 9am? :)
Donald, you know you've made it when the scammers 'whatsapp' your channel.🤣🤣
I’ve been scrambling all evening to remove all that. PITA for sure.
So what is the best way to pull a tree off a trail?
They pulled in reverse. That's not good for the differential's ring and pinion. The strength is engineered for forward, they're FAR weaker going in reverse.
Wrap the tree with a tree strap, tow strap, chains, etc…anything to not pinch the kinetic rope between tree and the ground.
You could have just driven around the fallen tree 🤔
Always bring a working winch
Hey! That's one of my favorite spots on Hood! Don't tell anyone how to get there ;)
Not to worry, I believe in letting people do their own research and make their own discoveries. :-)
I know in the US your mainly Gas , petrol to us lol are many diesel ?
I have a few friends with diesel rigs but the vast majority are gas/petrol 🙂
@@softroadingthewest I much prefer gas but often 15mpg is painful to the pocket 😬
I wish we could get many of the diesel rigs from overseas without having to wait 25 years to import them.
@@J.Young808 I’m not a big fan of diesel . They always seem noisy . Not as smooth . Seem more expensive to work on yes more MPG more torque but the gas I’ve had never had a problem. Not sure what is going to happen here our government want gas and diesel no longer sold new after 2030
No camp fire?
This was July 2022, following a reeeeeally bad fire year in Oregon in 2021. They had kicked the campfire ban into place extra early, in late June.
looks like a yankum rope set up to me ...
It was Cristin’s rope, I believe it’s from Deadman Offroad.
Not sure how it could be a set up or what possible reason we would have to do so. We were out here on a skid plate photoshoot.
I am partnered with Yankum but they strictly forbid any kind of set up using their products. It’s not the kind of thing I do on my channel. I just shoot what actually happens.
Subaru comes along and destroys all of these in stock configuration
its my rope I will tug it how I want...
Dude. Just buy a Noco Jump pack. Awesome, portable, self rescue gear.
I do carry a jump box in case something happens when I’m by myself, but it’s packed deep. Jumper cables are also fast & easy if I’m with buddies. 🙂
The Noco Boost is small, maybe the size of your hand. I keep it handy (in a backpack that goes most places with me) and transfer it between my car, my motorcycles, the wife's car, and any fleet vehicle I borrow from work. Had to use it a number of times and love it.
Can this be done with 20s?
20s? 20" tires?? All three of our rigs are on 33" tires. Or do you mean 20" rims?
@softroadingthewest rims, I wanted a lil more firmer ride since I mostly DD this thing but also want it to keep me from getting stuck in the snow and probably do some light offroading . Plans our 20s with 275/55 or 275/60 . Trying to keep the overall stock diameter.
Well generally for best off-road performance, you want to maximize sidewall. This allows you to air down and still have plenty of tire between the rocks and your rims...on that first trail in this video, we were all aired down to around 15 psi, something you could not do with a low-profile tire. It's not strictly _impossible_ to use a lower-profile tire for mild dirt roads, but there's a reason you'll notice most rigs that regularly go offroad tend to have smaller diameter rims, in order to fit the maximum amount of rubber into the remaining space. Most quality all-terrain tires have thicker, sturdier sidewalls than typical highway tires. Aired up, I have no need for them to be any firmer. My truck definitely does not corner like a sports car, but I guess one has to decide what their priority is, or find some kind of middle ground compromise. :-) Good luck!