Unforgettable Off-Roading Expedition: 900 Miles of Wyoming BDR! Part 2

[@mountainmonkey1984]

I lived in Wyoming for many years. Had to move a year ago. Wife and I sure miss Wyoming. We lived on the Eastern side of the Big Horns. Made me homesick.

[@leftystrat62]

Great videos. I enjoy the fact that your not shouting at us "hey what's up youtube, why don'y you smash that like and hit the reminders because it helps me to keep making these videos for you, and buy some swag while your at it." As a guy who just wants to tune in from time to time to the Jeep off road world and catch a quality video (with some great narration by the way)- yours hits the spot just right. cheers

[@michaelquillen2679]

I've done "off roading" in Wyoming for 52 years. Specifically, the Snowy Range, the Sierra Madre Range, The Wind River Range, and the Red Desert. I've done it in a 1961 GMC, 1969 International Harvester, 1970 Chevy Suburban, 1975 Chevy Cheyenne, 1979 Dodge Power Wagon, 1991 Jeep Wrangler, and 2001 Chevy Silverado (all 4WD). Whereas I do like to get down into Colorado and do some wheelin', Wyoming is where I hunt and fish. Glad you guys enjoyed Wyoming!

[@307Garage]

That was my back yard. The Big Horn mountains. I love that place. And yes the cows are (Wyoming Traffic Jams) They move when they want to.

[@erindunebuggy9772]

Lived on a big ranch for 30 years, Cows moooove when they want to......😎

[@307Garage]

@Erin Dunebuggy for sure on that one. Big truck, small car. Does not matter! They will move when they are ready to move!

[@glennc8761]

“Snot mud” ….. love it! Thanks for taking us along.

[@dealinwithit1]

I admire you guys doing that trip alone , really beautiful country

[@MoreDirtMoreDistance]

Looks like an incredible trip!

[@DefiantOffroad]

I enjoyed this just as much as part 1! The Wyoming BDR looks like an incredible place.

[@stevetabor4447]

Outstanding video love Wyoming so gorgeous congratulations on your successful journey of a life time much respect to you an your wife sir 👍👍👍👍as always be safe

[@s.r.gemmill6246]

Really well done footage of WY back country. I'm in southern WY. Thanks.

[@bjshu96]

Looking forward to my first overland trip this summer. I've been watching More Dirt More Distance and your channel for tips and tricks. Keep up the good work.

[@LoveTribeOverland]

What an awesome trip! Definitely adding the Wyoming BDR to my bucket list! If youre anything like me, I HATE turning back... it feels like giving up... but it sounds like it was a good call! Live to die another day!

[@TrailTraveler]

Amen! I would rather winch through something then turn around, but the last thing I needed was to get hung up in deep mud with a trailer.

[@mhudson1970]

Great job on putting a beautiful trip on video!

[@mikes7995]

Great video! I know how much work you must put into your videos, and it shows. The production quality is outstanding. Wyoming is certainly on our list of places to see. Thanks for the preview!

[@TrailTraveler]

Thank you, much appreciated

[@gto49us]

Nice! After reading all the comments, what more can I say - other than you planted the seed! Thanks for a great ride-along!! (Subbed too!) ❤️

[@The800Dragon]

Great video. Watched your videos several times!

[@enderr2203]

Thank you for the videos. I did the lower half of the Colorado BDR years back before snow stopped us in our tracks. Planning a trip next year to do Colorado and Wyoming.

[@windward_jl]

Awesome video! Thank you. Always so pleasurable watching your adventures.

[@flywiseman]

Beautiful country and thanks for taking us along

[@MrBigJTrucker]

I love the BDR videos, but i don't ride bikes. Its nice tovget the perspective of a 4x4 driver on these trails. I live in Oregon, and am hoping to attempt the OR BDR next year

[@southwestoffroad]

Nice looking rig you have there. Beautiful scenery and great work with the camera shots. I know how much work goes into putting in the time and effort to stage pass by's and drone shots. Hopefully we'll be able to get out there one day.

[@TrailTraveler]

Truth be told, most of the "pass by" shots are drone shots. I just fly ahead while Kateryna drives, this way we don't have to stop for setup very often. There are times when it's easier to just hope out with a handheld though.

[@budnixon]

Great video, thanks for sharing

[@CraigG21]

Gorgeous scenery - thanks for taking us along! Will have to check into this for next summer.

[@johnnypark3729]

LOVE your channel…thank you!

[@johngray9702]

Awesome video, thank you for sharing.

[@dlansburg2673]

Excellent video,hope to do that trip soon. Thanks

[@stevefriend812]

Thanks for the video. We are heading out with a group this year, but a week later.

[@billwaterhouse5894]

Just spectacular…thanks guys

[@DeanJohnson67]

youn guys have really gotten some great use out of your trailer! lt seems like there is a lifetime of great offroading/overlanding that can be done West of the Mississippi!!

[@HillyBillyWoodworks]

Great video awsome👍👍

[@canadian4wd654]

Awesome episode! Great footage , Beautiful area definitely on my list to check out

[@mike-pl8sn]

You need locker. They are game changers

[@TrailTraveler]

We have front and rear lockers. They didn't help in the mud and ice, it was just too slick and deep.

[@TheGoodkilo]

​@Trail Traveler did you try 4L? 😂

[@KerryGarrison]

@@TheGoodkilo and full lockers, Wyoming mud is like ice covered in snot

[@krashnpa]

Sinks is awesome. Did you guys hit Lander at all? Nice town.

[@GregariousAntithesis]

From West Colo originally and lesson learned elk hunting was always have at least one set of tire chains for the front. Dont understand why you dont have any chains considering you do a lot of off road travel.

[@TrailTraveler]

Chains don't do squat when the snow is 3'+ feet deep. We had also got trail reports that the trails were 100% open. These reports came from motorcyclists who simply went off-trail to avoid the snow drifts, a behavior which we do not do.

[@GregariousAntithesis]

@@TrailTraveler i was refering to your issue with the mud not the snow and no there was no driving over a snow field that deep been there.

[@TrailTraveler]

I hate chains and they are almost never worth the hassle. I have had guys that swear up and down on chains and they were not able to do anything that I couldn't do. When someone comes along that proves differently, then I will gladly buy chains. In the meantime, I will just winch through tough spots like I always do.

[@GregariousAntithesis]

@@TrailTraveler almost never worth the hassle is tempting fate. I was lucky i was able to find a high spot to call my sister in law to bring me a set of chains when i decided to drive down to a small park just off the main forest service road to sit and wait until dark for elk. It wss a very slight downhill i had no problem going down, going up turned out to be impossible. Put the chains on the front wheels and struggled to get out but made it out. There are times when a winch wont do it and when you cant even do you plan because there are no trees, etc its damn foolish not to have a way to keep going or at least turn around and get out. Its like watching so many people getting pulled out on off road recovery videos paying a fortune because they just didnt have the chains in case of emergency. You obviously are not originally from Colorado.

[@TrailTraveler]

@@GregariousAntithesis This is a pointless argument. You do you man. I have tons of recovery gear with us including a Pull Pal and traction boards and I volunteer on an off-road recovery crew. We have never had a situation where I couldn't self-rescue with the equipment that we carry. Chains are not a miracle tool just like nothing else will work 100% of the time either. In a decade of living in Colorado, I have never seen anyone get any further with chains than I was able to do (usually the opposite in fact). Again, I am happy to be proven wrong, but it has not happened to date.

[@coloradomallcrawlers]

Good stuff buddy!

[@4x4overlandadventures55]

Very cool trip. I think we'll do the northern sections at least this August. Question. . .How much does your trailer weight fully loaded?

[@TrailTraveler]

I need to put it on a scale but it’s around 2000lbs

[@boggygal9415]

I am planning on running the Wyoming BDR this July. Any tips and how did you contact the cycle riders? I will be running a 4Runner trail package. Would you and Katarina be interested in running it again with us? Love y’all’s videos and adventures.

[@TrailTraveler]

Thank you, and we appreciate the invite, but we are already booked for the season. For "the most part", the cycle riders were pretty cool. I followed the Wyoming BDR facebook group for trail updates, but they do not let non-cyclists post there. On the trail, they were all friendly and we stopped a few times to chat with them.

[@boggygal9415]

@@TrailTraveler Thank you very much.

[@jameshenderson9228]

When did you start the trip. I would like to do this myself. Great video!!

[@TrailTraveler]

July 1st last year

[@piloma6959]

Muy chulo el video

[@matildagreene1744]

'Gumbo' is wicked. Worse than snow any day.

[@TrailTraveler]

Is that what that nasty mud is called? It was the worst stuff I have ever had to deal with.

[@matildagreene1744]

@@TrailTraveler Yes..locals call it that. It's horrible. White knuckle time, for sure. 😘

[@davidcooke6800]

Are all the BDR’s in the states accessible to 4x4 vehicles?

[@TrailTraveler]

I “believe so” but I have not looked into all of them in detail

[@bryan565656]

You can air down way more than that. Try 8 psi

[@TrailTraveler]

Yes but without being on beadlocks there is a greater risk of popping a bead as well as the lower pressure really hurts the gas mileage, so there are trade offs.

[@Nchai-Yang]

All these campsites that you have been on, is it first come first serve or can you just camp along the road? Would someday like to do what you do and just want to know the proper way. Thank you!

[@TrailTraveler]

They were all first-come/first served. There are some paid campgrounds, but there is a lot of dispersed spots around.

[@cr0wnguard]

That looks pretty Awsome, how doable ya think it is without the trailer?

[@TrailTraveler]

Probably easier in some places. The guys on adventure bikes either tent camp or stay in hotels along the way.

[@brianandmarisha409]

Hi how many days total did it take you? Maybe I missed that part. Doable in 7 days? We are in a 4x4 sprinter. Thanks.

[@TrailTraveler]

We did it in 8 days. first off, do NOT do the expert sections, the Sprinter will not make it through those. This could cut down your time quite a bit. I hope you have lots of recovery gear including a winch and a land anchor. If you bog down in the sand areas, you are going to have a really, really bad day. Honestly, I think a Sprinter is simply too big for some sections and it really isn't designed for some of the rougher sections. I will be seriously impressed if you make it.

[@brianandmarisha409]

@@TrailTraveler Hi well unfortunately we didn't get the until the day we finished. It took us 7 days as we skipped the expert the sections. We did the trail in reverse because we were coming from Washington state headed home to Colorado. We did attempt the expert section 7/6 (woodchuck pass). We got more than half way - but the rain the night before really screwed us up so we turned back. It was a bear and we had to seep out there - took over 2 hours to get through just 1 30 yard part - so we knew it was not gong to be easy. And the other sections in 2 we skipped as a guy in a jeep told us the sprinter was far too tall ad wide for the narrow rocky sections. All in all we did the entire trail and just did not do the expert parts. Doable - but very hard in our rig if you don't really know how to 4x4 . Thanks for the reply and the informative video. Ours will hit our channel soon.

[@police1184]

Hey! I am looking to get into lite overlanding and start getting my feet wet. What’s the best way GPS system that you guys use to know how to stay on trials?

[@TrailTraveler]

We use TrailsOffroad.com and their app 95% of the time. When that doesn't have a trail, we will use AllTrails.com. Between those two, we have always been covered.

[@police1184]

@@TrailTraveler awesome, thank you

[@sk8familyinColorado]

Would an 18 ft. offroad trailer make it on the trail? We tow with a 22 gladiator rubicon, 37s.

[@TrailTraveler]

That’s about the same as mine so it shouldn’t be an issue

[@wagontrainadventures]

How many total days did it take from start to finish?

[@TrailTraveler]

Took us 8 days - July 1st - July 8th - Not counting the 9th day to drive home.

[@wagontrainadventures]

@@TrailTraveler What was your daily average pace, how many hours did you travel. Looks like a phenomenal trip, looking at doing some of it in early August but we only have 5-6 days.

[@TrailTraveler]

@@wagontrainadventures It was all over the place. We had a couple of days where I think we only covered 60-80 miles and days we did close to 200 miles. If you skipped the expert sections and some of the side trips, and just ran through it as quickly as possible, 6 days is probably doable, but you also have to consider the time to get there and back home, which was basically a full day drive each way for us from Northern Colorado.

[@robertherrmann4823]

We’re those fish trout?

[@TrailTraveler]

I believe so

[@williamlloyd854]

I have followed u guys thru Wyomin. Please share with me the drone u use? It does a great job. I'm sorry that u guys did not make it to Dubois. Dubois to Moran Junction is the place God saved for us. But please share drone

[@TrailTraveler]

I used a DJI Mavic 3

[@williamlloyd854]

@Trail Traveler thanks so very much. I was raised in Wyoming till 14. After that I moved to Mississippi. I returned to the Dubois area 5 yrs ago and purchased property. I have cowboyed all over the West, but Wyomin to me is the greatest state in America. Ur trip thru wyomin took me to places that I didn't even know about. The only fault I saw, Antelope not Antelopes. Speed Goat is what we here know them by thanks so much. Enjoyed the ride along

[@J_Calvin_Hobbes]

👍

[@stevewest9759]

If you think those are big water crossings, I suggest you stay away from any overlanding trips in Canada.