Look At That Tree
A pickup and teardrop trailer beneath a crooked tree in a wide autumn mountain valley

The reunion tour / October 2026

Look At
That Tree

North if we can. South if we must.
Outside either way.

Open the trip plan
Status Assembling the crew
Departure October 2026
Route Weather has voting rights

Mission brief 001

The drought ends here.

The adventure crew has spent long enough being a group chat with excellent historical credentials. This fall, we point west, bring the Bean, and remember how to disappear down a dirt road together.

Format
Overlanding with one optional overnight backpack
Base rig
Pickup + teardrop + rooftop tent
Built-in capacity
Four humans; second vehicle above four

The primary decision

Two good plans.
One weather problem.

The north route gets first refusal. The south route is strategy, not surrender.

A truck and trailer on a cold gravel road beside a wide mountain river Plan A

Proceed while Wyoming remains technically autumn

North until it snows

Grays River country, McDougal Gap, the Wind River orbit, Union Pass, and the Absarokas north of Dubois.

  1. Grays River
  2. McDougal Gap
  3. Wind Rivers
  4. Union Pass
  5. Absarokas
Cold nights Pass conditions Early snow
A truck, teardrop trailer, and tent in a red-rock Utah canyon Plan B

Deploy when discretion defeats frostbite

The desert knows what it did

Central Utah, Capitol Reef backcountry, a flexible Grand Staircase line, and perhaps a southern orbit near Kanab.

  1. Central Utah
  2. Capitol Reef
  3. Boulder country
  4. Grand Staircase
  5. Kanab orbit
Long dirt Water planning Loose itinerary

No route allegiance declared.

Availability check

Pick your possible week.

The exact departure bends. The season does not.

Each window cycles through available, maybe, and unavailable.

Now Find the humans
August Choose a week
September Rig and gear check
October Read conditions, choose direction

Manifest and sleeping science

Four fit.
More requires wheels.

The Bean and rooftop tent cover four. Ground tents expand sleep, not transport.

Base rig 01 Pickup + Bean
01Driver
02Scout
03Scout
04Scout
Bean2 sleepers
Rooftop2 sleepers
GroundExpandable
Working manifest 0 responses
Trip cooks Planning / rig In
The rest of the crew has not yet been summoned from the eastern time zone.

Shared kit

Do we own the thing?

0 of 8 systems covered

The evidence locker

Past chapters belong here.

Descriptions, routes, photographs, lessons, and all historically significant trees.

Archive frame 01

Backpacking / dates to recover

Somewhere unnecessarily vertical

Names, route, photos, and conflicting recollections pending.
Archive frame 02

Whitewater / West Virginia

The river chapter

Trip description, water level, photographs, and selective heroism pending.
Archive frame 03

Overlanding / dates to recover

Miles of questionable road

Vehicle notes, route line, camp locations, and tree evidence pending.

Archive intake

Bring the old hard drives.

The eventual site can preserve each trip as a proper chapter rather than letting it dissolve into Messenger history and unidentified camera-roll folders.