ULTIMATE ADVENTURE

christian_hazel@motortrend.com

One of the unique and beloved aspects of Ultimate Adventure (often simply referred to as “UA”) is that every year the sponsors, participants, and sometimes even members of staff don’t know where the event will be taking place until just a few short weeks before check-in day. We give them just about enough time to make their travel arrangements, but in terms of doing any special preparation to their vehicles—aside from maybe requiring some specific deep-water fording capabilities or adding extra fuel or bear-proof food storage—we intentionally leave everybody in the dark. So, for the weeklong hard-core off-road wheeling, camping, driving, surviving, and exploring experience that is Ultimate Adventure, you need to really know your machine and how to make it work in almost any terrain. There’s no time to go swapping axles or lengthening wheelbase or bobbing your bed and boatsiding your rockers. And if the route we’ve selected means snaking your longbed crew cab through a tight rockcrawl trail or winching up near-vertical waterfalls in your Willys flatfender or Suzuki Samurai, then that’s what you’ve gotta make happen. It’s all part and parcel to what is renown in the industry as the preeminent off-road event of its (or any other) kind.

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Over the past 21 years, since the first UA happened in 1999, the event has crisscrossed