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This digital document is an article from Powersports Business, published by Ehlert Publishing Group on April 25, 2005. The length of the article is 585 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Private OHV park association formed.(FOCUS: OFF-ROAD ACCESS)(Off-highway vehicle )
Publication: Powersports Business (Magazine/Journal)
Date: April 25, 2005
Publisher: Ehlert Publishing Group
Volume: 8Issue: 6Page: 19(1)

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This digital document is an article from Powersports Business, published by Ehlert Publishing Group on April 25, 2005. The length of the article is 2020 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: OHV bills, a state-by-state guide.(FOCUS: OFF-ROAD ACCESS)(off highway vehicles)
Publication: Powersports Business (Magazine/Journal)
Date: April 25, 2005
Publisher: Ehlert Publishing Group
Volume: 8Issue: 6Page: 13(3)

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Backcountry Adventures Utah navigates through 3,721 miles of the spectacular Canyonlands region, to the top of the Uintah Range, across vast salt flats, and along trails unchanged since the riders of the Pony Express sped from station to station and daring young outlaws wreaked havoc on newly established trails lines, railroads, and frontier towns. See ghost towns, old mines, old Pony Express stations, old railroads and stage lines along the 175 off-road trails. Directions include GPS coordinates and all trails are rated for difficulty, mileage, driving time, remoteness and more. Descriptions highlight places to camp, hike, mountain bike, fish, and sightsee, while histories recount the days of the Wild West. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (9)

Great reference and fun to read
This is a great reference for any outdoors enthusiast. It contains tons of useful information and beautiful pictures. After buying one for my father I had to get one for myself!

Use with Caution!
There are serious errors in this book which can be frustrating and DANGEROUS! In April 2009 we used the book to explore Central Region trails #10 and #11. Both give theincorrect starting point from Interstate I-70. This required pulling off the highway and hiking looking for the trails.

The book lists the starting point for trail #10 as just after Mile Marker 145 west bound.

The CORRECT MILE MARKER IS 147 west bound!

The book lists the starting point for trail #11 as Mile marker 144 east bound. We doubt this as we didn't see it!

Actually, the starting point should be the same as trail #10 west bound just after Mile Marker 147. On trail #10 take the first left just after passing the gate and pass under the interstate and follow the trail directions.

This book would serve its reader better with actual topo and satellite views of trails available on Terrain Navigator Pro from My Topo. The line drawings leave much to be desired.

Serious off-road explorers should only use this book as a rough guide and have printed satellite views of the trails available for the trips. Terrain Navigator provides these and the topographic maps. Delorme's competitive offering to Terrain Navigator Pro could be called Terrain Navigator Light as it does not show allthe trails.

It is illegal and dangerous to cross the medium of the interstate and it is 19 miles between exits. If you miss the trail the first time you'll be adding 38 miles to your trip.

Buy this book
Here is the situation, you want to do some exploring and follow a certain dirt track and need to know the condition of it, length, and what you can expect for scenery, also, can your pick-up right from the factory handle the trail?

You swing into the "Poison Raven" shop and ask the senior manager, you have socks older than this kid but it's this or nothing, and you ask for info; Is the scenery worth it? " Yaahh, its awesome back there, Rad."
IS the trail passable , are there washes with mud or water in them, can a stock short bed make the trail, is there alot of scramble, boulder moving, or is it a trail an 'old man' of 40 can handle in an Escalade?

The answers are " Yaahh, its Rad. most is lame, but some is gnarly, no prob in your hummer dude, rock on and git er dun"

When you leave the manager turns to an employee and says, " Oh, Wait, was that old dude talking about the Yellow Cat or Hell's Backbone?...oh, dude, I screwed that up big time..." and they laugh and you end up screwed...big time..

Instead of that scenario buy this book and stop only for gas, water and a shovel, and "git er dun" on your own.

Even if you only have a stock SUV you will love this book, it will open up more areas to you than you will believe, even in places you think you already know.

Having explored canyon country in Utah for many years we bought this book and then went out and followed every track we always had wondered about.

It is not perfect in every way, but it gives you a great idea of what to expect, take the time to read the entire route description and then go out and follow one and see how things line up.This will also get you in line with how the authors are thinking and writing, understanding that things here change day by day, and year to year, but a trail that is a Difficulty 2 or 3 won't become a 6 and a scenery rating of a 10 doesn't become a 4 either.
Keep in mind this guide can not tell you it rained like hell yesterday and the washes are a foot of mud, or that there is bad trail damage from the ijits that went through ahead of you and tore hell outta the crossings and kept on going.
But , that said, it will tell you how long you will be in a wash, how many washes there are to cross, how many rivers or creeks, and gives a rough idea of the scenery you can expect and most importantly to us, the difficulty of the trail.

At 4 times the going price I'd still buy these gudies, they are a fantastic shortcut to exploring, and also takes the worry out of wondering where a track ends up, and if it does connect to another track how bad is that one?

Bottom line also-- this is NOT the beaches on D-Day----you don't HAVE to keep going, we can go back and call it a day.

Many of the trails that we decided from their rating were too much for our truck or suv we planned on hiking on foot, or mtn bike, without the guide we probably wouldn't have ever turned off onto these trails to begin with. Worth every penny and then some.

Very informative, well diagramed very complete
I've got a lot of Utah guides but this one is the best by far.Very good maps at different scales.Trail diagrams with loads of point of interest.Detailed trail logs with turn by turn directions, scenic ratings, difficulty ratings.A great historical section about the people and places of Utah.This one has it all.We leave in one week!!

Excellent, But Needs Spiral Binding
Backcountry Adventures are the best guides of their kind out there. Odometer references, descriptive text, and (especially) GPS coordinates make these easy and foolproof to use. The map and index for the respective areas, Southeast, Central, etc., make planning your route easy as the different routes are color coded with their page numbers referenced. Good sampling of human interest content also, giving some history, flora and fauna, and geology information.

My only criticism is that these guides should be spiral bound, and pages removable. This would allow the book to lie flat and pages and/or sections could be removed to make it more concise for use on a motorcycle or bicycle. These guides are the size of a mid sized phone book and are too big and heavy for anything but automotive use. ... Read more

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This digital document is a journal article from Biological Conservation, published by Elsevier in 2007. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Off-highway vehicle (OHV) recreation impacts species and ecosystems around the world, and is particularly prevalent in the United States. Our study examines the impact of OHVs on one of several species restricted within the United States to the Algodones Dunes, California. This dune system attracts many OHV enthusiasts annually, and interest in determining the impact of OHVs on Astragalus magdalenae var. peirsonii (Peirson's milk-vetch) has motivated multiple investigations. Several of these investigations have arrived at seemingly contradictory conclusions. Our study objectives were to quantify the degree by which A. m. var. peirsonii densities differed between high- and low-OHV use areas and determine whether OHV impact was a plausible factor for affecting plant density. Density estimate comparisons indicated 4-5 times fewer plants occupied a study area open to OHVs relative to two nearby study areas legally closed to OHVs. A manipulative mark-resight experiment compared the survival probabilities of control plants to those purposefully struck by OHVs and found that, for plants with canopy diameters of <50cm, OHV impact reduced survival by 33%. Density estimates from one of the study areas recently closed to OHVs were surprisingly large, which may suggest that periodic closure of occupied habitat during favorably wet years would assist in ensuring A. m. var. peirsonii productivity and thereby persistence. An improved understanding of this phenomenon may indicate a dunes-wide management strategy that would allow OHV activity to coexist with A. m. var. peirsonii. ... Read more

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This digital document is a journal article from Accident Analysis and Prevention, published by Elsevier in 2007. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Background: There are several reasons to suspect that injuries from all-terrain vehicles (ATV) have become both more serious and frequent in recent years. These reasons include increasing engine power, younger age of operators and inconsistent enforcement of helmet laws. The purpose of this study was to determine if the increase in ATV injuries was out of proportion to the increase in ATV usage and whether ATV injuries have increased in severity. Methods: A retrospective analysis of the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) ATV injury data and the Pennsylvania Trauma System Foundation (PTSF) database from 1989 to 2002 was performed. ATV use, sales, deaths, trauma center admissions, Injury Severity Score (ISS), hospital length of stay (LOS) and Glascow Coma Score (GCS) were reviewed. Results: ATV sales increased to 316%. In the decade prior to 2003, reported deaths nationally increased from 183 to 357 (95%) nationally and from 5 to 10 (100%) in Pennsylvania (PA). Admissions to trauma centers in PA increased 240%, yet the percentage of deaths to trauma center admissions remained constant at 2.6% during this period (p>.50). ISS and LOS from 1989 to 2002 did not significantly change (all p>.05) and GCS improved significantly. Conclusion: Despite concerns regarding the increasing dangers associated with ATVs, it appears that the severity of injuries from ATV use has not increased. ... Read more

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Neat...
It was a MUST BUY for me, several of the trucks are people we race with. I actually bought a couple:) ... Read more

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Good read.
I agree with C Daus. I picked it up new at Barnes & Noble for $10. I was interested in Land Rover History and it was pretty good for that. Also has good history on the creation of the Jeep. Although I haven't read them yet, it has discussions on Ford, Chevrolet, Cadillac, International, Hummer, Dodge, Mercedes, Nissan, Suzuki, and a few other SUV's. Very good pictures & good historic information, but as mentioned, not a lot of technical information. Definitely worth my $10, probably more. By the way, it's a fairly large book (9.5 X 12 and 440+ pages - it's pretty heavy to ship, just FYI).

Come See
Awesome-Awesome photography.Includes basic history of various relevant automakers and models.i scored this book used very cheap and absolutely love it for the full-page pictures alone, which are enhanced by the extra-large size of the book itself.Not much technical data, in case that is for what you are looking. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Powersports Business, published by Ehlert Publishing Group on April 25, 2005. The length of the article is 821 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Off-road interests discussed at annual NOHVCC conference.(FOCUS: OFF-ROAD ACCESS)(National Off-Highway Vehicle Conservation Council )
Publication: Powersports Business (Magazine/Journal)
Date: April 25, 2005
Publisher: Ehlert Publishing Group
Volume: 8Issue: 6Page: 18(1)

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This digital document is an article from Display Development News, published by Business Communications Company, Inc. on January 1, 2004. The length of the article is 565 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: MATERIALS: Filters Aid Off-Road Military Vehicles.(Astra Products)(Clarex DR-IIIC light diffusion filter materials)
Publication: Display Development News (Newsletter)
Date: January 1, 2004
Publisher: Business Communications Company, Inc.
Volume: 8Issue: 10

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This digital document is an article from Epoca, published by Difusora de Informacion Periodica, S.A. (DINPESA) on January 28, 2001. The length of the article is 1148 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: El híbrido perfecto: Suzuki Ignis, entre el campo y la ciudad.(vehículo de todo terreno)(TT: The perfect hybrid: Suzuki Ignis, smooth off-road and city handling.)(TA: all-terrain vehicle)(Evaluación)
Author: Carlos de Miguel
Publication: Epoca (Magazine/Journal)
Date: January 28, 2001
Publisher: Difusora de Informacion Periodica, S.A. (DINPESA)
Page: 82

Article Type: Evaluación

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