Its become somewhat of a yearly ritual with 5 out of the last 7 years attend 4Wheel & Off-Road Magazine’s Ultimate Adventure as the official suspension. Each year (always over the July 4th week) the event is secretly organized in some region of the United States. The location and day to day plan is kept a mystery only the start and end points are known for those that want to drop a trailer for before or after. What isn’t know is how we’ll get there, some days are trail days and spent navigating difficult terrain while others are road days where the convoy covers hundreds of miles to get to the next destination. Road days are always dedicated to the highway as this year we made detours to run local trails along the way, crush cars with a tank, invade military surplus stores, and even a canoe race. The trip runs Saturday to Saturday and covers 1000-1500 miles and a handful of trails all out of the comfort of our semi DOT-compliant trail rigs.
The 2015 Ultimate Adventure (#UA2015) was dubbed summer camp and with that a canoe or other form of personal floatation device was added to the required list of gear along with a winch, recover points, lockers, 35”+ tires, roll cage, seat belts, and first aid gear. The UA convoy is made up of 4 types of wheelers; (1) the magazine staff and media crew their to document all the action for magazine, DVD, and social media. (2) the “cronies” who are a bunch of guys that attend each year with a variety of skill sets to help heard the group along, (3) the readers who are 4WOR Mag readers hand selected to attend the adventure in their personal rigs and (4) the sponsors, event sponsors are offered a spot on the trip to show off their products and partake in the action. BDS is part of the later, attending for our 5th year (2 in the BDS TJ, 2 in the Project KJ, and this our first year in the Crawlorado – for more on any of those vehicles, click the links). Throughout the week the BDS Crawlorado was impressive. With a LS2 V8 powering the stock automatic tranny, ORD magnum 205 case box, Dynatrac ProRock 60s, 37” Pitbull Rockers, and BDS JK long arm kit retrofitted running Fox shocks the truck conquered the trails with a unique style. Also along for the trip was BDS’s 2015 Colorado acting as the social media support vehicle to bring the world daily updates from the action. This year’s event covered roughly 1300 miles and 7 states (OH, KY, TN, NC, SC, GA, and AL) over the course of a week, camping along the way in a convoy of 25 vehicles.
This year’s trip was a wet one, with gratuitous amounts of rain every single day of the adventure and event a tornado touching down in close proximity on one of the road days. Here’s a rundown of the day to day action along with photos and links on where to find more from #UA2015
2015 Ultimate Adventure
Day 1: Check In and Tech Inspection [view D1 video] and [4WOR D1 coverage]
Day 2: Powerline Park [view D2 video] and [4WOR D2 coverage]
Day 3: Road Day – OH to KY [view D3 video] and [4WOR D3 coverage]
Day 4: Black Mountain Adventure Park [view D4 video] and [4WOR D4 coverage]
Day 5: Road Day – KY to NC [view D5 video] and [4WOR D5 coverage]
Day 6: Durhamtown Tellico Park [view D6 video] and [4WOR D6 coverage]
Day 7: Road Day – NC to TN [view D7 video] and [4WOR D7 coverage]
Day 8: Adventure Offroad Park [view D8 video] and [4WOR D8 coverage]
See more coverage from of the 2015 Ultimate Adventure at:
View All 4WOR Magazine Coverage [link]
View BDS Crawlorado buildup [link]
View BDS Blog – Ultimate Adventure Thread [link]
BDS Suspension 2015 Ultimate Adventure Photos:
