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  • TrailRecon

    Weird & Crazy Jeeps and Off-Road Rigs at SEMA

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    Two Jeeps with my name on them, and a whole lot of weird ones that don’t. SEMA 2026 was a different year for me. Jordan couldn’t make the trip, so I walked the halls with my buddy Shaun from The Story Till Now, and for the first time I had my own vehicles on the floor: the TrailRecon Outrider and the TrailRecon Expedition, built with Gear Vehicles, Rock Slide Engineering, and Overland Vehicle Systems. Both are sold through Jeep dealers, fully warrantied, and you can finance the whole truck in one payment. Details on both are linked below. The rest of the video is what we always do at SEMA: th…

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    I Fixed My Jeep Twice to Reach This Town

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    One man spent most of his life digging a tunnel through a mountain, and the reason for it disappeared eighteen years before he finished. Two days in the El Paso Mountains, north of Randsburg, California. The road in was washed out, so this one started with a detour and a new setup: Recon One on 40s towing the Patriot Campers X2. From there it’s old mines and the people who worked them. A volcanic ash mine that ended up in kitchen sinks across the country. Walt Bickel’s camp, still sitting the way he left it. Burro Schmidt’s tunnel, half a mile through solid rock by hand, which I walked end to…

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    I Came to Big Bear for the Trails… Then Found This

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    Big Bear has a few stories hiding beyond its famous trails and this weekend, Jerry and I set out to explore both. With Recon One and Jerry’s built diesel Wrangler both rolling on 40s, we head into the mountains for some challenging rock crawling, great scenery, and a weekend close to home. Having a capable Jeep is one thing; picking your line and trusting your buddy to spot you is where the fun begins. Along the way, we explore the ruins of the old Dam Keeper’s House, look into the history behind Big Bear Lake, and visit the Big Bear Alpine Zoo to learn about its wildlife rescue and rehabilit…

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    Same Jeep, Same Obstacles: 35s vs 40s

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    Forty-inch tires look great on a Jeep, but I wanted to find out how much they actually help on the trail. Recon One is getting a 4.5-inch TeraFlex lift and 40-inch Toyo Open Country R/T Pro tires and we’re heading back to familiar obstacles to see what changed. Jerry and I go through the suspension upgrades, Falcon adjustable shocks, steering improvements, and the details that matter when making room for bigger tires. Then it’s back to Truck Haven to compare the current build with footage from when Recon One was stock and running its first lift with 35s. From the logs and whoops to the pipes…

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    How Far Do You Push a Trail Before Turning Around?

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    I brought the Jeep, rain gear, and even a chainsaw. Ohio apparently hadn’t read the itinerary. This leg of Recon America takes me through southern Ohio in search of forest trails and old railroad tunnels. But with steady rain, water crossings, and a tree blocking the trail, the day quickly becomes less about where I’m going and more about how far it makes sense to keep pushing. Along the way, I visit Lake Hope and the historic Hope Furnace before heading into West Virginia to explore Point Pleasant, where riverfront history and the legend of the Mothman give this adventure a completely differ…

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    Nevada’s Most Lawless Mining Town Never Really Died

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    I’d been to Comet Mine before, but I hadn’t seen everything they left behind. This time, Luna and I take the Jeep and trailer into Nevada’s mining country for a closer look—and find a rocky descent that has me getting out to walk the trail first. From lakeside camping at Pahranagat National Wildlife Refuge to the old machinery at Comet Mine and the Bristol Well charcoal kilns, there’s plenty to explore out here. After finding a quiet place to camp, I try out AGM night vision goggles and thermal binoculars to see what’s around us after dark. We also spend some time walking through Pioche, Neva…

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    A Jeep Mechanic on 5.7 vs 392, Portals, and Skid Plates

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    Before you spend more money on your Jeep, it helps to hear from someone who works on them every day. My buddy Jerry from Shift Auto & Off-Road is back in the garage, and we’re digging into YOUR questions. We talk about engine issues, what to look for when buying a used Jeep, spare parts worth carrying, and upgrades that make sense for the way you actually use your rig. From brakes and skid plates to portals and the extra weight we carry on our adventures, Jerry shares what he sees coming into the shop, and I share what I’ve learned out on the trail. We also get into the 5.7L vs. 392 conversat…

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    She Put a Deposit on a Jeep Recon. Then We Drove It.

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    Regena put a deposit down on a Jeep Recon before ever driving one. Now we finally get behind the wheel to see if it’s something she’d actually want to live with every day. We spend time on the road and out on the trail, explore the interior, and talk through what matters to each of us. I’m curious about how it handles the dirt. Regena has a daily commute to think about—and a few priorities of her own. Her yellow Wrangler is staying in the family. The question is whether the Recon deserves a spot alongside it. Come along for the drive, the honest reactions, and a little back-and-forth as we fi…

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    This Was Always the Plan for Recon One

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    Recon One has officially entered its next phase! When I started Project Recon One, the goal was to take a relatively simple Jeep Wrangler Willys and build it in stages testing each phase on the trail, learning what worked, finding its limitations, and eventually transforming it into a dedicated hardcore rock crawler. Well, we’ve reached that point. Over the last month, Recon One has undergone some of its biggest changes yet. In this video, I’m walking you through the new axles, wheels and tires, fender changes, gauges, a few things I’ve removed, and some other upgrades that are helping prepar…

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    Strangest Jeeps I Found in the Smoky Mountains

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    I've been to a lot of Jeep events over the years I've never seen anything like this one. The Great Smoky Mountain Jeep Invasion takes over Pigeon Forge, Tennessee every August, with an estimated 20,000 Jeeps and tens of thousands of Jeepers filling the LeConte Center, the parking lots, the hotels, and the entire strip. Over two days I walked the vendor areas, dug through the show-and-shine builds, hunted for inspiration for my Gladiator tow-rig build, and cruised the parkway at night with more Jeeps (and rubber ducks) than I could count including a Jeep Gladiator fire truck from Morgan Olson…

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    Tennessee’s Only National Forest Is NOT What I Expected

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    At the end of a day exploring Tennessee's backcountry sits a fort that disappeared over 250 years ago and the original ground it stood on is now at the bottom of a lake. In this episode of Recon America, I point Recon One into the Cherokee National Forest the single largest piece of public land in Tennessee starting at Bald River Falls and piecing together forest roads and two-track up to a 5,000-foot lookout with views toward Georgia. Storm damage closed some of the trails I'd planned, so this day became about taking the turns you can't see the end of... and one of them delivered the best mo…

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    The Jeep Mod I'll Never Run Again

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    Some of the most popular Jeep mods out there might be working against you, so I brought in my buddy Jerry from Shift Autowerx to settle it. We go down the list one by one: oil catch cans, grill graphic inserts, wheel spacers, dual exhaust on the 3.6, the rear locker bypass harness, running 40-inch tires on stock axles, and superchargers. Some of these we've run on our own rigs for years. Some of them Jerry has seen destroy engines in his shop, including a grill insert that cooked a set of heads and a wheel spacer failure that put a tire into another car. We don't agree on all of it, and we le…

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    Nobody Thinks of Kentucky as Jeep Country. It Is.

    By TrailRecon

    Everyone kept telling me I needed to wheel Kentucky. This week I finally did in the middle of a string of thunderstorms that had the whole region soaked. In this episode of Recon America, I head into the Daniel Boone National Forest to run Spaas Creek Trail a tight, muddy, tree-lined trail that's nothing like the wheeling we do out west. Deep water holes, storm debris, and a shale climb on Pumpkin Hollow round out the trail day. Then the exploring starts: driving the Jeep through the Nada Tunnel, a 900-foot railroad tunnel cut through solid sandstone by hand more than a century ago, hiking to…

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    This Mountain Trail Was Worth Every Mile

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    The gold rush trail ends at the top of British Columbia — but it made us work for every mile. Part two of our BC adventure picks up where we left off: waking up beside Quesnel Forks, a gold rush ghost town older than Canada itself. From there, my good friend Shaun from The Story Till Now and I follow a 90-mile backroad through the mountains to Barkerville — the town built by Billy Barker's 1862 gold strike, now the largest living-history museum in western North America. Along the way we try our luck panning for real gold on Antler Creek, climb to the Two Sisters fire lookout, and get stopped…

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    We Were the Last to See This Place Like This

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    British Columbia has been on my bucket list for years and the first two days alone were worth the wait. My good friend Shaun from The Story Till Now invited me up to explore his home turf, following the trails and towns of BC's historic gold rush. In this first episode, we ride a train deep into an old copper mine, cross the Hurley Pass with the Bonnie D and my Patriot Campers trailer in tow, spot my first wild grizzly, and camp at Mud Lakes before pushing north to Quesnel Forks one of the best-preserved gold rush ghost towns in Canada, founded in 1860. We also settle who's better at a very C…

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    A Series of Misfortunate Events on the Way to Canada

    By TrailRecon

    A shattered window, a camshaft failure, and a dead battery — all before I even crossed the border. Shaun and I had this year's bucket trip to British Columbia planned for months: a gold rush route through country I've been wanting to get back to for years. Then the week before departure happened. Four days out, Doc's driver-side window shattered while parked. Five hours up the road, I heard a tick I'd heard before — the same rocker arm and camshaft failure that hit eight days before Alaska. I turned around, drove 16 hours round trip for nothing, swapped everything over to the Bonnie D and the…

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    This Colorado Mountain Is Hollow

    By TrailRecon

    In this episode of Recon America, I'm exploring the Bachelor Loop above Creede, Colorado — the last great silver boomtown in the state. This 17-mile trail winds through what's left of a mining district that produced a billion dollars' worth of silver at today's prices: the massive Commodore Mine with its 200 miles of tunnels, abandoned townsites where hundreds of people lived at 10,000 feet, and a few surprises along the way — including a moose, a locked gate, and a fire station you have to see to believe. Creede burned down again and again during the boom years... so the town blasted its fir…

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    This Colorado Trail Leads to a Town That Shouldn't Exist

    By TrailRecon

    The mountains above Durango were named for silver that was never really there and this trail tells the whole story. In this episode of Recon America, I point the Jeep up La Plata Canyon toward Kennebec Pass, an easy backcountry route that climbs past waterfalls, old mining claims, and the ruins of towns that boomed and busted 150 years ago. Most of the trail is a comfortable graded road, but the last stretch gets rocky you'll want 4WD and a little patience. At the top: the remains of the Cumberland Mine and some of the best views in the San Juans. Then it's down the other side into Durango a…

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