Let’s go through the recovery gear I always carry in my rig and why
Category: offroad-101
Squeaky clean!
Saturday morning, Jordan, from Captures by Clark photography organized a cleanup in Browns Camp. This is his second cleanup and this time there were over 180 registered participants. In a few hours volunteers filled up half a dumpster. We found canister of gas used for target practice, tires, shotgun shells, cans and parts of vehicles….
Muddy recovery in WA
Monday at around 9AM, Hailey contacted us using our web-app. She submitted a recovery request for their truck that got stuck the day before when exploring in private land in WA. They found our website by searching to purchase recovery gear, so instead she decided to contact us. After verifying they had permission to be…
A call for help from afar
On June 8th, around 7:00 PM, we received a recovery request from the Alvord Hot springs south east of Oregon. I checked and we only had one volunteer in Harney county where the incident was. To say the least, it was a stretch for us to offer a recovery when in the city we have…
Weekend Recovery
On Saturday at around 6:00 PM, we received a request for a recovery. Jimmy, was driving near Mapleton, on road NF-2170 when he slid of the road and due to the mud he couldn’t get back out. He sent us the ticket with this GPS coordinates, within 3 minutes, we sent the ticket to a…
Icy road near Meadows
Monday, May 25th, around 3 PM, Corey submitted a ticket using the web-app. A few minutes later we reached out back to get more information. He was exploring a narrow road near Mt Hood Meadows, when he tried to run over a log and slid of the side of the road an a step hill….
Stuck in mud!
On Saturday morning, Gina contacted Offroad Portal using our direct link online. After going back and forth, we gather enough information to help her submit a recovery request for her husband, Paul. He was out exploring with his Dodge Ram 1500 when he got stuck going down the road in mud. Unable to get himself…
Trail cameras?
For a few years now, I have played with using some wireless cameras on my Jeep. I installed a few in different locations. I tried having two forward, then I switched and had one looking forward, and one pointing below toward the front axle. So far, the best option I found was using just one…
Time to clean up Browns!
Chatting with Jordan today, from @capturesbyclark, he told us, he is organizing a clean up at Browns Camp OHV for June 20th. Last year he told us he got about 30 rigs, so maybe we can all participate and get much more done! Let’s all help him get more rigs to do more! Overlanders, Rock…
How does this works?
By now most of you understand we don’t use facebook to organize our recoveries. That’s what we used to do when we started years ago. Our facebook page is now mostly to chat and share photos and tips across volunteers. Our organization is now 100% relying on our web-app system to coordinate recovery efforts. We…