Family UTV Overlanding in the Uinta Mountains of Utah - Part 1 [Polaris General 4] 

Thank you!! 🙏🏼

Thanks for watching!

I believe it! That seems to be almost every NF these days - you get to some spots and it’s just miles of hillsides full of dead trees. Glad you enjoyed the video and thanks for stopping by! 🙏🏼

That is awesome! You guys will have fun. Thanks for watching! 🙏🏼

😆 happened quite by accident when editing but when we saw it we had to keep it. Glad someone else appreciated it! 😂

@@TheNorthwoodsFamily gotta love when that happens after done editing and seeing something like that. How many miles on the ranger now?

Thanks!!!

Thanks! It’s a beautiful area. The next video should be up soon

We learn more every trip and hope it helps others out. Best wishes on your adventures!

Thanks Reed! Utah is such an awesome state for enjoying the outdoors. Has a little bit of everything. Should have the conclusion up soon :)

You’re welcome!! Glad you found us! Both of those are great machines. We love our Polaris, gonna do a 5k mile review on it soon. I’ve heard great things about the Yamaha too but never drove one. We’ll have to make it down to AZ to ride sometime. I know you guys have some great UTV trails down there!

@TheNorthwoodsFamily appreciate your response a lot. I used to have an RMAX2 but my wife and I need more space. Had a Pro R 4 in between but didn't like it. As for Arizona, you wanna check out Sedona, awesome trails like Broken Arrow. If you guys ever come down, do let me know 🙂

Rmax all the way

Cool! Glad you liked it. It was a really neat area. I’d love to go back sometime, would really like to hike up into the wilderness area by some of the alpine lakes.

Definitely different than Wisconsin. Have you narrowed down your next state?

Totally by accident 😉

Thank you! Always love visiting Utah. The state has just about everything when it comes to the outdoors.

I’ve had 2 generals and stock tires wear out fast. Switched to terabites on both machines. Had well over 4k miles and still in great condition

@danielanaya267 factory bias ply tires wear very quickly and unevenly on hard surfaces. This is our second machine so we replaced the tires right away. Radial tires make a HUGE difference in your ride quality. We love our Terrabites. We’re on our second set - we have the 10ply aramids now. You should get 4k+ miles on em depending how you ride. We work with Rocky Mountain ATVMC now (they own the Tusk brand), but we did this review below two years ago and we’ve been customers of theirs for a long time: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-JntF1r2hKtU.htmlsi=mZNGwH9lyYN8-p82 If you decide to buy them, please use this link or one in our video description! It helps support the channel. But even if we didn’t collaborate with RMATVMC, we’d still recommend them. They’re great tires. www.rockymountainatvmc.com/?ref=1069&

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Polaris sucks so bad lol

I’m actually planning on replacing the clutch this winter with a Duraclutch. It sounds like one of the best options out there. Our factory clutch is actually starting to go now, somewhere around 6k miles I believe. I don’t think they were made to take the kind of abuse we give ‘em on these trips. Thanks for the advice - sounds like we’re on the same page.

Read up on them. I knew 2 people with them and both ended up ditching them as it caused more issues. Im a fan of oem clutch and clutch kit to tune it.

I do… kind of. Somehow we lost a couple days of our track, I think I accidentally deleted them when I was uploading them from our machine. I will get you the general route we took, give me a week or so, I need to finish up the second video and then I’ll try to get it mapped out. It shouldn’t be too difficult to plot quick.

😆 the struggle is real. I wonder how my parents did it when we drove across the country on road trips when my sister and I were little! They do great some days, not great the others. A good intercom system is helpful, so everyone can talk. But we also aren’t afraid to unplug someone if they get whiny and want to complain. We’ll play music on the intercom for them too sometimes. We try to take frequent breaks, and reward the kids with playground stops, treats at the gas station and other bribes! or other activities they like to do. We play games, scavenger hunts, or do photography competitions with them. We do let them do some iPad / iPhone stuff, but we try to limit it. It’s hard to compete with the screens for kids’ attention… we left them at home our first few trips, the last few we’ve brought them along. Pros and cons to both. We also try to rotate seating to let each kid sit upfront for at least a little while each day. I also try to give the kids “jobs” to make them feel like part of the team. My daughter is old enough now (10) I’ll give her a paper map, and ask her to help us plot / follow our route. I’ll ask our son to count how many rivers we cross or puddles we hit, make games out of it. But honestly, it doesn’t always go smoothly… but they’re kids, and even if they’re bored I’m sure there’s a lesson for them to learn from it 🤷‍♂️ 😆

​@TheNorthwoodsFamily I appreciate the response. It sounds like you have a pretty good system down to keep them engaged and interested. I have enjoyed watching your riding videos since finding your channel. 👍

They are! Tusk Terrabite radials. We had a set of 8-ply and these are the 10-ply Aramids. Both are awesome. We have a review on the 8 ply if you scroll back through our videos. You can order them at Rocky Mountain ATV www.rockymountainatvmc.com/?

So I had to leave my truck on the street at a buddy’s house for four nights last week when we went fishing. He lives in a nice neighborhood outside Madison, WI. I was far more “worried” about my truck being broken into parked there than leaving it for a week in a wilderness area. There are “kids” shopping cars every night in neighborhoods like his outside every urban center in America right now. The woods are remote, but the concentration of scumbags is a lot lower. I don’t leave valuables inside and I have insurance. About all I can do.

Belt was fine, but it did slip. Hauling a lot of weight up that mountain I suppose. I replaced our Ranger’s belt after 11 years… and it was still perfect 🤷‍♂️

😆 yes indeed… forgot where she found it but was a cool find. Wish we had more time at Flaming Gorge… lots of trails to ride there it looks like. I should have the second video up this week. Almost done but was visiting family this week. Man we’d love to have a Polaris Sponsorship! We’d do a lot more videos if we did. Costs and time off work are our biggest restraints on doing more videos now. Our machine needs a new clutch, so this month it’s $1500 on a new Duraclutch. With RU-vid income, some affiliate marketing, books sales and occasional website donations, we’re still thousands of dollars in the red every year and that’s not even cost of the machine factored in. Would love to just break even some day! 😆

Do you have some evidence to back up that statement? Because I searched the internet far and wide for information about UTVs causing damage in the Uintas and I sure didn’t find anything. I’ve backpacked and hunted in the backcountry, so I am not ignorant to the issues surrounding our wilderness areas. Despite you opinions on roadway erosion, two days of heavy rain did a thousand times more damage to the roads there than would be done in a decade of UTV riding. The heavy logging trucks, cattle trucks, livestock, and RVs do far more damage to the forest roads than the UTVs do. I will say that in some specific areas on some other properties, a handful of disrespectful riders have caused issues. I’ve also seen backpackers leave remote “campsites” absolutely trashed too, burning garbage in fire rings instead of packing it out, not burning human waste and all sorts of other disgusting things. But I realize it’s a small minority of jerks, just like people who cause problems riding UTVs. There is also 500,000 acres of High Uinta Wilderness that is completely off limits to motor vehicle traffic. That is 100% worth protecting and should remain that way in my opinion. The truth is, UTV riders bring far more money to our National Forests than backpackers. So if we want to continue conserving those lands for future generations, motorized recreation is going to be a part of it. We ride respectfully, do our best to follow all rules and regulations, and slow down as we pass hikers and livestock. Most backpackers we meet have been very friendly and struck up some interesting conversations.

@@TheNorthwoodsFamily well, I'm not a backpacker. I've spent a considerable amount of time in the Uintas and other national forests over the last few decades. It was perfectly obvious that the forest roads started to deteriorate much faster after UTVs became popular. Just because they can comfortably drive at higher speeds doesn't mean it's not damaging the roads. I'm not surprised you couldn't find any info about that. This type of knowledge resides with those of us who are in the backcountry for more than one family trip per year. I politely asked that you slow down while driving on forest roads. You know you are in the wrong and that's why you wrote such a long winded response. Apparently, asking you to be polite and courteous was asking too much of you. You certainly fit the mold of city folks who have no respect for public spaces or other people. You're no better than those who leave garbage and fires unattended. Who unsurprisingly are usually UTV owners. The miniscule amount of money UTV owners bring the national forests is dwarfed by the damage they cause.

Oh brother... Document your claim about speeds and forest roads. There's absolutely NOTHING about their speeds over those roads that impacts the roads whatsoever. I own property very near where they started and I ride those same roads every summer, and most of them experience heavy truck traffic hauling timber or equiment. You think a little Polaris compares to a heavy diesel pulling a flat bed? Even the smaller roads they were on sees constant jeep, pickup and motorcycle use all summer.

​@@dieselbljnot concerned about the damage Diesels cause though?