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OPUS OP2 camped in the Anza-Borrego desert, California
Expedition Journal

Hiking Anza-Borrego

CaliforniaOPUS OP2Debbie and Ray ยท @wildflowersformeTowed by Jeep Gladiator

Debbie and Ray have taken their OP2 to Joshua Tree, the Alabama Hills, the northern Sierras and Death Valley. This trip was Anza-Borrego: three days hiking out of a Blair Valley basecamp, including the Pictograph Trail through Smugglers Canyon to the edge of a dry waterfall.

"The Opus lets us get out to the most remote places, and make a campsite with the luxury and comfort of a fantastic kitchen, a fridge, and all the amenities, yet we're still so remote."

On towing behind their Gladiator:

"Between the Gladiator and the Opus, we have never had a single towing problem, and we always pushed it! It is smooth on the road, you don't even feel it behind you... It handles shockingly well on inclines, dips, twists, mud, dirt, and gravel, there is nothing this Opus doesn't roll right through."

From the trip

Desert hiking near Blair Valley, Anza-Borrego

On the map

Blair Valley and Smugglers Canyon

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