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Yoooo @DefenderSISU you went for it! Also curious where exactly you were.
I'm new here. Just picked up a Defender 130 (primarily for the wife) end of last week.
It replaced our Bronco that spent some time mostly in Citrus county.
This is as "out in the wild" as the Defender has been so far..
Went camping this past weekend and did some off roading in the San Rafael Swell Area of Utah. We slightly under estimated the time it would take to do the full loop. It was about a 31 mile loop with about half of it rated above 5. It took about 9 hours. Lots of fun though. Went out with a heavily modified Tacoma on 37s and fully upgraded suspension, a mostly stock Tacoma, and mostly stock 4Runner TRD Pro. Everyone had a lot of doubts about the defender being able to make it, then they saw me climb the rock ledge (video below). Both the stock tacoma and 4runner didn't try that section and used the bypass.
Trail list. Starting point was at 38.88285289563304, -110.75223657467647 Locomotive Point Devils Racetrack - hardest section, took about 5 hours North Fork Coal Wash Fixit Pass Neilsen Dugway
Hardest obstacle on the trail. Rated a 6 to 7 going up. Nothing like have one wheel 4 feet up in the air (21 degree nose up angle) while being tilted 17 degrees to the passenger side.
All lots of fun. Defender is certainly capable. I do have 2" lift rods with Lucky8 SYA kit. 35's, Tuffant rock sliders and under armor.
Went camping this past weekend and did some off roading in the San Rafael Swell Area of Utah. We slightly under estimated the time it would take to do the full loop. It was about a 31 mile loop with about half of it rated above 5. It took about 9 hours. Lots of fun though. Went out with a heavily modified Tacoma on 37s and fully upgraded suspension, a mostly stock Tacoma, and mostly stock 4Runner TRD Pro. Everyone had a lot of doubts about the defender being able to make it, then they saw me climb the rock ledge (video below). Both the stock tacoma and 4runner didn't try that section and used the bypass.
[img alt="Did this loop clockwise starting in the lower left
Locomotive Point
Devils Racetrack - hardest section, took about 5 hours
North Fork Coal Wash
Fixit Pass
Neilsen Dugway
"]https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/landroverforums.com-vbulletin/815x735/route_4x4_b0471c4a29c45a48f33046ee86cae72ef5bfb946 .jpg[/img] Did this loop clockwise starting in the lower left Locomotive Point Devils Racetrack - hardest section, took about 5 hours North Fork Coal Wash Fixit Pass Neilsen Dugway First set of ledge going down More Ledges
Hardest obstacle on the trail. Rated a 6 to 7 going up. Nothing like have one wheel 4 feet up in the air (21 degree nose up angle) while being tilted 17 degrees to the passenger side.
All lots of fun. Defender is certainly capable. I do have 2" lift rods with Lucky8 SYA kit. 35's, Tuffant rock sliders and under armor.
I've having difficulty identifying where this track is. Do you have the track in gaia or onx? Or have the gps coordinates of the start point?
I think I drove through that last night in the LR3 but there was no floating as it weighs about 8000 lbs and is on 34" tires on top of a 2" strut spacer "real lift".
I think I drove through that last night in the LR3 but there was no floating as it weighs about 8000 lbs and is on 34" tires on top of a 2" strut spacer "real lift".
Water level may have come down a bit. I'd never seen it so deep at Tahuya.
