Uploaded August 2019 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
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If you don’t think it’s overlanding if you don’t spend the night, use your lockers and sleep on top of your truck then this might not interest you. But if you’re looking for a dirt road tour with great wide open views, cool caves to explore without super rough roads and miles of 4 wheeling, then read on.
In this episode we explore the Mopung Hills of the West Humboldt Range and visit Lovelock Cave, an archaeological site in Churchill County, Nevada. Lovelock Cave is easy to get to along a smooth dirt road to a parking lot with a pit toilet. It’s so easy to get to that they take bus loads of kids there during the school year.
A trail leaves the parking area and heads up and around the limestone outcrop following a short but steep and rocky route that leads to a ledge below a sheer cliff where you have access to the cave.
From the cave the trail continues on to an overlook with an interpretive sign and a commanding view out over the Humboldt Sink. Past here the short hiking trail loops around the limestone outcrop and back around to the parking area.
After lunch and exploring Lovelock Cave we headed north back the way we came to an unmarked dirt road that crosses the West Humboldt Range at Wildhorse Pass. This route was also easily passable and didn’t require high clearance or 4 wheel drive.
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Special thanks to the Masnick Family for running sweep and keeping in communication with me via ham radio. We appreciate the help and it was fun having you along.
We made our way north along the range to Ocala Cave, another excavated Archaeological site in the area. There are several more similar limestone caves that were inhabited by native people. Only Lovelock Cave is developed, and the others are not signed and only appear on some USGS maps.
The area is worth a lot more exploring, and would be a good place to return to in the Fall or early spring.
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#allterrainfamily #archaeology #nevada
If you don’t think it’s overlanding if you don’t spend the night, use your lockers and sleep on top of your truck then this might not interest you. But if you’re looking for a dirt road tour with great wide open views, cool caves to explore without super rough roads and miles of 4 wheeling, then read on.
In this episode we explore the Mopung Hills of the West Humboldt Range and visit Lovelock Cave, an archaeological site in Churchill County, Nevada. Lovelock Cave is easy to get to along a smooth dirt road to a parking lot with a pit toilet. It’s so easy to get to that they take bus loads of kids there during the school year.
A trail leaves the parking area and heads up and around the limestone outcrop following a short but steep and rocky route that leads to a ledge below a sheer cliff where you have access to the cave.
From the cave the trail continues on to an overlook with an interpretive sign and a commanding view out over the Humboldt Sink. Past here the short hiking trail loops around the limestone outcrop and back around to the parking area.
After lunch and exploring Lovelock Cave we headed north back the way we came to an unmarked dirt road that crosses the West Humboldt Range at Wildhorse Pass. This route was also easily passable and didn’t require high clearance or 4 wheel drive.
For GPS tracks and waypoints for this trip, please consider supporting our channel on Patreon. You’ll get early access to videos as well as full resources for trips like this.
Special thanks to the Masnick Family for running sweep and keeping in communication with me via ham radio. We appreciate the help and it was fun having you along.
We made our way north along the range to Ocala Cave, another excavated Archaeological site in the area. There are several more similar limestone caves that were inhabited by native people. Only Lovelock Cave is developed, and the others are not signed and only appear on some USGS maps.
The area is worth a lot more exploring, and would be a good place to return to in the Fall or early spring.
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3rd Gen Tacoma Suspension Shoot out [kind of] Bilstein vs Old Man Emu [not really] #Broverlanding
More info on this excursion here: https://allterrainfam.com/overlanding-mt-patterson-sweetwater-range-nevada-california/
When I was a kid, we just called it camping. But if you ask the experts today youll get another definition. And thats OK. Things change over time. The air clears, and we can see things in a different light.
Overlanding is self-reliant overland travel to remote destinations where the journey is the principal goal. According to Wikipedia. Others specify it as vehicle reliant adventure travel. But its obvious for those of us who do this with young children, for them, its Dad reliant adventure travel.
This time I set off with two other grown, independent adults who require no direct care from me and for the first time in, longer than I can remember, I set out on a trip of free exploration and adventure, where bad ideas abound, the F-Bombs flow like beer, and beer flows like wine.
I embrace the new nomenclature. But dont call this overlanding, this is
Broverlanding.
Now, it can be hard to tell the difference at times, but some of the halLmarks of Broverlanding are Getting 4k footage of yourself airing down your rig,
Driving entirely too close to each other because it looks better in drone footage,
Posting everyones instagram handle,
And going on and on and on about your modified suspension.
And thats where we left it for day one of our Broverlanding Adventure. Other stuff happened, but you know, it was bro stuff.
Day two began with coffee and breakfast sandwiches. Then some vista viewing of the low settled smoke over the Pine Grove Hills. Then we headed out across Boulder Flat towards the other side of the Sweetwaters. This road is rough with steep tight switchbacks, but is totally passable in a stock 4x4 like Mikes Tacoma. Adventurous souls could and likely have also probably do it in a Subaru.
The road tops out here at this spectacular promontory at the top of the Sweetwaters with views of the Sierra Nevada and Great Basin all around. Actual results may vary due to smoke...
Heres where the bad ideas come in. Through this whole descent from the summit, I was shooting video and making Colin drive over all kinds of rocks to get footage I could use for Nitto, Method and ARB content. And if youve been watching Harry Situations on Driving Line, youve seen some of this footage there.
So then Im like, lets test the suspension!
And then I thought I could hit it faster...
Anyway, Nates precision fixed that this week. If you want to go really crazy even with bypass shocks, you need air bumps and reinforced control arms... Live and learn.
OK, now for the suspension comparison.
And with that, we took off for home. Wed found a clean pocket of air in a long hot smokey summer in Reno. And in that clarity learned that being out in the mountains with your bros is great, no matter what you call it, fancy suspension is great, but so is nice suspension, and if were being realistic, stock suspension is fine too. Just make sure you air down your tires, have plenty of beer, and for crap sake keep a tight pattern so the drone footage looks bad ass.
Happy trails")
