Watch Out for Flash Floods! - SITREP 0001

What does camp look like when 3 youtube creators get together and hang out? Today I’ll give you and quick update (situational report) of how our day went and walk your around camp and talk with my good friends and take a look at their incredible overland vehicles.
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[@TrailRecon]

Thanks for joining me for this new style video. Would love to hear your thoughts. Is this something you'd like to see more often? Is there information about my location or the day you'd also like me to include? Looking forward to reading all your comments!

[@FatMatAdventures]

yes for sure, love this new style! i'd watch more of this for sure! thanks dude.

[@brandtdaniels]

Make sure to complete your 3M checks and meet the PQS shipmate

[@FatMatAdventures]

Love the kinda 'behind the scenes stuff'!

[@TrailRecon]

@@brandtdaniels LOL! I live a happy life never doing 3M checks again!

[@dougcampbell4818]

Love the new video, I think it's a great idea.

[@jimsatterfield7454]

Sit Rep is a HOME RUN!👍👍 Gives everyone almost a "day-in-the life" feel when you're out on your trips. You have our vote for more of this type content. Thank Brad.....be safe.

[@TrailRecon]

Awesome! Thank you!

[@jimlund9514]

Good job to Brad and his crew for taking responsibility for the trash. I like how Brad always promotes "leaving it better than you found it. "

[@whysitthat3515]

I for one loved this video! I appreciated the casual tone of a coffee one-take, while still being able to see your groups’ campsites and rigs all set up. Laid back but fun to feel like we’re hanging out with you guys

[@TrailRecon]

Awesome! Thank you!

[@JeffCanyon]

Hey Brad, Really like the SITREP idea, keeps us viewers up to date and a little easier for you... Keep up the great work. Jeff

[@TrailRecon]

Thank you so much!

[@January14q]

We’ve been missing Marco! Good to see him. You tasting his food is one of our favorite things on your channel. 😍❤️

[@flyfisher530]

So cool to see some of my favorite Overlanders out there having fun. Love the new EFRT rig and Marco's new Patriot camper is awesome! Love the SITREP idea!

[@DrewToner]

Sitrep's sound like a good way to keep us up to the minute!! Look forward to them on your trip to Tuktoyaktuk!!

[@michaelcook5233]

Loving the sit rep update just like a coffee one take. Include them as an additional video and no issue with you getting a little more nitty gritty into the actual sit rep of the day

[@davidmonnin2792]

Love the SITREP idea! Hopefully minimal editing and time investment but keeps your subs engaged and updated. Thanks for the awesome content!!

[@ThomperYT]

Love the new vid. Hate the trash. Thanks for inspiring everyone who watches to leave it better than they found it. Every time we return from Anza-Borrego our spare tire trash bag is packed to the brim with other people's trail trash. Keep up the great work Brad.

[@TrailRecon]

Thank you!

[@youtubecarspottersguide1]

same here I keep a pick up stick in the bed of my truck

[@kimberlypeterson794]

I appreciated that it was “real” view of the day. It gave more insight to what happens in camp. Plus I love seeing the Mals, Belgian Malinois. I have 2 Mals myself.

[@StlrNtn95]

Ready for SITREP 0002!

[@jonnytacooutdoors]

Love the videos. Love seeing you out with Marco. Hope your 2024 is great for you.🎉

[@ronaldhurtt3567]

When I first started watching your channel you did a walk around of the crew you were traveling with. I thought that was pretty cool because you got to see what rig everyone was using. So I think this brief walk around video is good for viewers. Thanks to @TrailRecon for always being informative and always bringing great content.

[@AnchorOverland]

I was at the SDJC run, we had 72 jeeps total and I can tell you, we were all really surprised when we saw you and Overland X pull up!

[@TrailRecon]

A great looking group, hope you guys had as much fun on the trails as we did!

[@AnchorOverland]

We had an absolute blast! I'm anxiously standing by for Epic Family Road trip and Marco to post their videos from your trip!@@TrailRecon

[@DuyenNguyen-ui6mo]

Awesome; Thank you for sharing Sir.

[@vanwithaplan2476]

Great video! This is my favorite kind of content. I prefer it raw and unedited. Cool to see you hanging out with EFRT.

[@EricKurz-e2k]

Great SITREP Brad. Really enjoy all your videos. I’m up in the Yosemite area so we’re blessed with some good off road trails in our area as well.

[@jeffquick7917]

I dig the variety and seeing different set ups, gives me ideas for when we get out! I also love watching these videos when it’s -12 like it was here last night…makes me again appreciate when we do get out even more! Nothing wrong with sharing, if more did it and appreciated it, I think we’d be all in a better place. EFRT are great, living vicariously through all y’all keeps a lot of us motivated, be safe out there!!

[@Whiskyncigars]

Brad, really enjoyed this platform and providing additional information as to where you are. It is nice to understand the plan ahead of time before the video coming with context as well as seeing all the different rigs.

[@Warwagon_JTRD]

I’ve been missing these kinda videos of camp walk around and showing other rigs. I vote yes keep the sit reps.

[@TYZR4ME]

If you pack it in then pack it out right Brad!!!! We were in Anza Borrego as well this Saturday and we ran into a large group of jeeps too I think they were part of the SDJC as well.... Glad you guys got to see Peter and Carol and the family.

[@khodges3507]

SITREP is great! Ooh-Rah Brad, from a 34-year retired infantry officer. Great to see EPRT, Marco and his family, and you. Great job cleaning up after the “knuckleheads “.

[@sobikn]

For me it’s always a pleasure watching and seeing all the different places you explore. I’m getting up there in age so going with the overland community is just fine. My son and I visited the Expo in Flagstaff when it first got started and I figured it would explode with excitement and it certainly has. So please keep us updated on your trips. We moved to Texas so it’s nice to watch those videos as well. Keep having fun 👍

[@SanDiegoJeepClub]

Love the SITREP and it was 74 Jeeps Brad 💪 😂Great to see you and Marco and say hi. Sad about the trash those knuckle heads left behind. Tread lightly please. Safe travels

[@TrailRecon]

LOL! I was only 4 off... pretty good guess! Hope you all had a great day out there!

[@venture.explore.discover]

I enjoyed the format, and I think it will be perfect for keeping everyone up to date when your on your long trips!

[@tacomafamilyadventures9862]

I think the SITREP videos are a great idea, especially for longer trips as you mentioned. I know it was the first one so it’s a brief summary of what happened, where we’re at, and where we’re going. (Last 24 hrs, next 48 hrs format) Semper Fi! The Doc Gladiator is looking great! Excited to see the AK trip. Only feedback would recommend be to maybe reduce the length by 5 minutes.

[@davidbennett1981]

Loved the Sit Rep. Keep doing them periodically on your travels. It was a very nice change of pace.

[@explor360]

Brad I just completed my first Tread Lightly volunteer clean up with the NFS in Virginia. Very satisfying work with a great bunch of volunteers. Highly recommend!

[@collinkelch7764]

Love to see you getting out with friends. Always love the coffee one take, so this sit rep is great. I expect that there is much rejoicing in the community for the trip with Marco.

[@bigdave4863]

I love the “SITREP” format . . . And having Marco along made this an awesome video! Peace.

[@mikeandshelliesoverlanding]

Love the new sit rep idea! We love watching all the different videos and coffee one takes so I believe it’s going to be a great addition to the channel

[@scottharrison994]

I have looked forward to and enjoyed all your content for years, so again am looking forward to your upcoming trips = and this style updating on your travels will be easier for you while still being well done (as usual) and enjoyable because you take us with you. Thank you for your service, and your enjoyable and informative content.

[@elisabethshore3509]

I love the SITREP update! Good to see everyone’s set up. Thanks for doing the right thing and glad you can use the wood to your advantage. Looking forward to checking out the videos on the other channels. Hope Regena feels better soon!

[@tb77073]

Howdy Brad, yes love the situation reporting, location and day's are great; let's see more in the future.

[@JT_Adventures]

Enjoyed the Sit Rep. I’d like to hear a tiny bit more about the days trail in the future. I think that would be interesting and it will make each one unique. Great to see Marco & the EFRT family. Pete & Carols rig is sweet just as each one there in their own way thanks for trying something new with us.

[@zmotorpro]

Great SitRep Brad. Keep it up!

[@stevehori673]

Very cool format Brad, yes please continue with the reports. I posted on EFRT, to have 3 of my favorite Overland channels together is sweet! And thank you for cleaning up after the idiots.

[@kwiyetstorm25]

Love the SITREP idea. We will take all that your willing to share with us. Thanks for being a great content creator.

[@gerryhartung736]

I like this new format....MIL SPEAK🎉

[@WreckedBrewery]

This is a cool format. Love the "leaving it better than you found it." Growing up as a boy scout, it was engrained into me at camp. Doing the right thing and it feels good too. Cheers!

[@seanridder5612]

Like the small update .outline of the day very cool

[@kenpoultonjr]

Love these, great to see the raw experience you all are having - Thx Brad!

[@gretchenwalker9234]

When there is something interesting that happened that day the sitrep is great

[@christopherbritton2256]

Good job for cleaning it up And you all stay safe out there have a great day

[@lenward474]

Wow that was one of your best videos. You were relaxed had fun and chatted away ..thank uou

[@dmwi1549]

Sorry Regina was under the weather. Brad, I hope you did the smart thing with the food. If your culinary skills are anything like mine the safe bet would have been to have Regina walk you through the prep. If there was no cell signal, I would have gratefully turned the food over to Marco and watched the magic happen! What a fun group!

[@chrissolomon8868]

Let me tell you that my most favorite channel that I follow very passionately is trail recon and epic family road trip.....seeing you guys togeather is a awesome and beautiful thing for me ...love you all...keep rocking

[@TrailRecon]

Right on!

[@Gretchen_Trouble]

You're heading up to Tuk? I made the drive last March. It was beyond epic. Camping in -40 and getting stranded on the Dempster was sure something.

[@LivingTheDreamUSA]

Thanks for the SITREP Brad! ❤

[@AidenNorris-jeeping]

When you built up the anticipation for who all was on the adventure, my first guess was Marco😂 I liked the video. Different than usual but still cool. The Rossmonster is an absolute beast and was probably my favorite part of the video.

[@shawnarkenburg7671]

Yes! “Real” reality show!! Love the little bits 👍

[@jrodriguez8216]

OK this is just a great group of people, hanging out together!!!. I have personally enjoyed the videos from the three of you. Hope I can figure out where you folks were camping so I can visit it myself one day. It would be a great secondary video to hear where each of you are and plans for the future, but I guess that would be very long, maybe at Expo or some other venue. Thanks again.

[@IIAtheist]

I’d really like to see a coffee one take series but on location at different trails you do, or different scenes, as well as in the garage. Not while you’re driving but at camp or at the end of a trail, just you and a cup of coffee in your hand getting away from it all. Could call it “Breaking contact”.

[@xtoverland]

Yes sir I think it’s a great idea the sitrep video updates! Excited to see more adventures this year good luck.

[@wardperozuk2288]

Great to see everyone! Liking the sitrep! Cheers.

[@nativetexson]

Great to see all of you guys together! Bummer about the trash left behind. Like you, my dad taught us to leave the campsite better than we found it. Cheers-

[@blakes1708]

Love the SITREP concept. I'd like to see this work to branch your content in the 5-15 minute duration class.

[@Love2Wander]

Amazing adventure looks like a lot of fun hanging with friends. Thanks for picking up the trash if you use the land, it's your responsibility to keep it clean. Thank you again. Just starting to get out and explore in our Jeep is not as nice, but it gets us out. Stay safe and love the channel.

[@TheOGMattBurns]

These are some of my favorite vids. These give me all kinds of ideas.

[@jr_jeep4470]

Very much enjoyed the sit rep, always good to see Marco and the whole series of the gang out there. Really enjoyed so sorry that you ran across the grounds that were left unkempt. That is really something that irks me as well before Overlanding I used to fish quite a bit and when I ran across things likecampsites, left a mess or left over fishing line and tackle laying out all over the place that used to irritate the heck out of me.

[@craigroosa9321]

Great video as always and love SITREP style review . Maybe would not always work but really sets up the day in review and gives a back round . Nicely done and bummer your wife was not feeling up for the trip . Great when she joins you !! Safe travels as always !

[@nealjohnson1461]

Interesting concept with the sit rep. As an old vet I’m definitely on board with it!! Of course the sit rep brings back vivid memories of our CO screaming into the handset about when are the Huey’s arriving. Cant use his actual language. So great to see Epic Family and Marcos and his family out in the desert with you. I think the new format will be a winner but then there has not been anything less than a winner in what you are presenting on the channel !!!

[@TrailRecon]

Thank you so much!

[@MichaelSmith-kr9qw]

I just made Potato Soup for dinner simple and is great when it is cold outside !! 4 Potatoes peeled and diced, 16oz bottle of water, salt and pepper,half stick of butter, boil all together under potatoes are tender then mash slightly and cheese of your choice I use Colby and Jack then I add Smoked Ham that I diced up. !!!

[@TrailRecon]

Sounds like the perfect dinner on a cold night!

[@t.o.f.t.s.]

Very cool. Can't wait to get back down to the desert. Hopefully in February.

[@WiltonAdventure]

Cool trip, liking the sittep idea. Any trip with Marco is a trip to flavor heaven!

[@stevewhitaker1474]

I like the format Brad. I like seeing all the rigs up close, as well as the traveling video.

[@vancemyers4095]

Brad, great idea and will keep watching to see more.

[@farticus6907]

I enjoyed this IR. It was like having a casual conversation with you, along with a formal introduction to everyone you were adventuring with, if that makes sense. I would like to see more of this myself. Thank you for the great content, and helping educate me to be able to begin going on future adventures myself! Sorry Regina was unable to attend. This looks like she would have really enjoyed this trip. I also hope she’s enjoying her new work gig!

[@TrailRecon]

Thank you!

[@lynnbultman1679]

Love the format idea. Would also be interested in having more talks including what the travel plans are for your fellow overlanders.

[@JeffBraden]

Very interesting. I think this is a good way to report on long trips.

[@TrailRecon]

I think so too!

[@shawnputnam1061]

i love Marco, i was just asking about him and you delivered.

[@dougfarrell9268]

Hi Brad, besides my 392 I also have my '97 Dodge 4x4. I take the truck out to AB 4 times a year to just pick up trash. If you guys couldn't haul that junk out of there I can get it. Just tell me where it is. Hope Regena recovers quickly. And I like your 'trail report's. But then I like all your videos. And I have been caught in a desert flash flood. Nothing like it. You hear it first. Then a wall of mud,trees, rocks and shrubs come barreling down the canyon. Then you scramble to find high ground. Take care.

[@m.t.mobile]

LOL! Joke's on us! We thought we were going to get a sneak peak at EFRT's video for next week!! Like the SITREP idea. Keep doing those. Was following you on Instagram earlier today. Too bad for the nasty comments there. Glad y'all got together again! I can't wait to see everyone's video's of this trip! Congratulations Paula and David! And I can't believe Anza and Sedona are 4!! Great to see everyone together again!!

[@holdenc3082]

You guys are really living right. Seems like a great group you hang out with. I can’t wait to move back home to the Southwest. East coast off roading where I am now is just sad compared to the west. I’m not interested in trying to thread a full sized truck in between trees in some swamp. Keep up the great videos, it reminds me of home.

[@pingpongitore]

I really enjoyed this new style of video. I love the curated trip vids but there was something really REALLY entertaining about this

[@TrailRecon]

Than you!

[@grootsgracemission]

I just came back from 6weeks in South Africa. It has problems, but I can’t wait to go back.

[@seanware719]

Good stuff Brad!! I liked the sit report.

[@mmusser62]

This was an awesome format to share with us!

[@kenroberts5]

My 392 has been rock solid minus a build issue. During the build at the factory, they routed part of the wiring harness wrong, which put it too close to the exhaust manifold. Needless to say it burnt though and shorted out at the wrong time and left me stranded out near Sedona, AZ.

[@zephyralpha4990]

I am new to this community, recently purchased a Jeep Rubicon 4xE and really have enjoyed your videos. I like when you at least give an indication of the area you are in as it give me ideas of where I can head out to. I think someone mentioned Anza Borrego in this video, gonna be heading there next week. I appreciate the effort you put into your posts and the information you put out into the universe. You definitely have motivated me to make more of an effort to get out there and leave a place better than I found it :).

[@urbanfowlkeeping3272]

HI, I like the idea of having a SITREP on all if not most of your trips. What was planned, any changes to those plans and what were they. The trail expectations as conditions of the it and how were they in real time.

[@CesarRodriguez-gx9dg]

Great idea, love the update videos, keep it up

[@GIGrandpa]

Another great video, S.I.T.R.E.P. brings back memories...another idea for Trail Doc, a 9-Line stencil for the rear corners?

[@brunnie]

Travel videos are interesting to watch, and learn from, but SitReps are more unscripted, open forum style, which make them very interesting to me. It is like sitting around the campfire in the evening and getting everyone's take on what happened, the trials and tribulations, the funny things, just as Coffee-One-Takes are. Love them. Thanks for the update, enjoy the trip, Travel safe.

[@PeterANewell]

Nice work Brad. Do more of these!

[@TrailRecon]

Thanks! I figure all the military folks would get a kick out of it. More to come!

[@terribolding8162]

I saw EFR’s video first so I knew you were meeting up, but it will be fun to see his video next week also. I like the new format!

[@ahmednesbitte4906]

Hi Brad, I hope Regina is feeling better. I liked the concept of this video and look forward to more content. Thank you for sharing!

[@TrailRecon]

I hope so too! Thank you!

[@newkey1106]

Thanks will love the new Sitrep be safe .

[@Benheck13]

Great video! I'm motivated to get a good off-road vehicle, and maybe I'll see you out there.

[@michaelpetty8416]

Good SITREP Doc. Keep’em coming.

[@ramoneortiz]

This was awesome. Thanks for the sitrep. Looking forward to the next one. Greetings from Las Vegas, NV.

[@TrailRecon]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@erikcele1604]

The hole A-Team is together Nice! Injoy

[@gerryhartung736]

I volunteer for Public Land Stewards, Bend, Oregon. Clean ups along China Hat Road in Dechutes Natl For. The trash is unbelievable. Over 100 volunteers 9 to 1, and pick up 100,000 lbs trash, ammo cartridges, butane cans, hazmat plus 2 to 3 dozen cars, trucks, motorhomes, and travel trailers. 7 miles past city limits makes me wonder how they manage to haul it out there. So many homeless.....when I was growing up in 1950s homeless was a hobo jungle. BTW raises in Anaheim, before Disney, no Angel stadium, mostly orange groves. Driving to TJ Friday nites 2 lanes each way, eucalyptus trees dividing hwy, foggy, Ford against Chevy......17 and crazy. Live in Ore. now, in Santa Clarita visiting, going over to Ariz. and N. Mexico. Might see you on a trail one day. Army Vet Eur, RVN 66, troop ships both oceans. Oh, 79 y/o, and still traveling 2015 k1500 Silverado. To young to quit!

[@midnite8791]

Great job on cleaning up! Having grown up going to that desert in boy scouts it is sad to see trash like that left behind. There was always some trash, but I have heard it has gotten much worse since covid and the boom of people "camping" who don't know what they're doing. Sad to see, but happy to see you all helping out as would be expected! I thought this video style was great!

[@williammenchen7562]

Great report! Tonight’s fire will be nice!

[@DocHoliday-to6kp]

Another great video. Thanks for bringing us along.

[@TrailRecon]

Thanks for joining me!

[@fj9460-lr]

I really enjoyed the SitRep, and that warm local looks so much better than the 20 degree Fahrenheit forecast for my location (Glorieta, NM) tonight! And yes, it feels a little more real, not scripted or retaken (is that a word) just normal interaction between friends, feels like I’m there.

[@MavadoKen]

Nice to see someone using a tent. Kudos to them.