December 29, 2022, San Marcos, CA Deep in the backwoods of a remote area known as San Marcos lies a little-known proving ground to test your most recent modification. Fondly known as “P” Mountain, this area offers a decent array of challenging terrain. What’s best?…for those of us in North County, it’s right in our […]
November 12-13, 2022 Nov. Anza Borrego Desert The group included a total of 7 trucks. The weather was perfect, mid-70s during the day and 40s at night. Diablo Drop-Off was in much better condition compared to what we encountered during the pre-run, which was fortunate given the heavy rains leading up to the weeked. Surprisingly, […]
October 29, 2022 Nov. Anza Borrego trip pre-run. With 5 Vehicles and 2 dogs, this was a day in the desert that we won’t soon forget. What did we learn on this pre-run? This was a very fun trip. The weather was perfect, we had a great convoy of rigs, and there was a LOT […]
Oct 22, 2022 club trip, Trails to Temecula. The San Diego Land Rover Club spent the day driving offroad trails through the east county mountains and had a fantastic lunch at a Temecula winery. This trip boasted a diverse group of eight Land Rovers; Series 1, Series 2, Range Rovers, Discovery, LR3, and LR4. We […]
Two back-to-back weekends of off-road trips?…don’t remind my wife. A good friend (also a work colleague) called late last night and was itching to get off the pavement. My wife had already arranged to take our son (11) and a couple of his friends to an escape room, then bring them home for some quality […]
Aug 20, 2022 Big Bear trip pre-run. Every great club trip starts with a pre-run by the Trail Leader(s) and others interested in tagging along. While pre-runs typically end up being a great time, the purpose of these trips is much more important. Trail conditions (and sometimes our memory of past excursions) are subject to […]
May 21, 2022, trip to Black Mountain summit for lunch. If you live in North San Diego County, Black Mountain is a great destination. It’s out of town, but no so far that you need to set aside a whole day (or paychecks worth of money for fuel). I’ve done this run several times, taken […]
Trip report and pictures courtesy of Peter Matusov and Nikolay Matusov please follow the link: http://3rj.org/Arizona.LRCSD/ In May of infamous 2020, Chris Snell and I ventured out on a short trip to some of Arizona’s ghost and living mining towns. Chris did all of the navigation and a considerable part of driving; I loved the […]
Aug 29th 2020, Warner Springs Airport, 10:30am 10 vehicles. Everything went according to planned, we had lunch in the only wooded with big trees just by a spring, after lunch we made our way to the main entrance of our trail. The trail as expected is narrow, rutted, rocky, and steep grades with area of […]
Aug 2th 2020, my daughter and I decided to pre-run the trail for the upcoming club trip. The trail is not use very often, for the first few miles we didn’t see any tire tracks. The trail is tight at times with the overgrown vegetation. There are a few obstacles that to drive thru require […]
