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This seems to come up quite regularly in the 4x4 community, it seems that car-camping and trail rigs have instantly become defacto "expedition" rigs and gear junkies and rock-crawler burnouts have decided that labeling their style as 'expedition' means they can continually 'test' all the latest and greatest gear in prep for their big summer vacation and they don't have to worry about scratching their sliders or skids anymore as being 'expedition' means you just car-camp instead of rock-crawl right? Clear as mud
Scott Brady did a fantastic op-ed about overlanding, back-country adventures, etc that I think would be a great read for anyone pondering:
http://www.expeditionportal.com/resources/what-is-overlanding/definition.html
I pretty much think Scott is spot on, particularly this one: ExPo: An abbreviation of the website Expedition Portal.. It seems that ExPo is synonymous with some as anything that isn't rock-crawling. I.e. a day trip to a lake might get called an "expo run", which is a bit pretentious in my opinion but at least it serves as a litmus test for those reading the thread titles
You thoughts?
Scott Brady did a fantastic op-ed about overlanding, back-country adventures, etc that I think would be a great read for anyone pondering:
http://www.expeditionportal.com/resources/what-is-overlanding/definition.html
I pretty much think Scott is spot on, particularly this one: ExPo: An abbreviation of the website Expedition Portal.. It seems that ExPo is synonymous with some as anything that isn't rock-crawling. I.e. a day trip to a lake might get called an "expo run", which is a bit pretentious in my opinion but at least it serves as a litmus test for those reading the thread titles
You thoughts?