Exploration - page 2

This isn’t your average sport. There’s no centralized league, major or minor. There’s no standardized rulebook, or official training camp. We don’t have arenas. Or stands full of fans. Or refs on the sidelines calling our plays. There are no conference champions. No sponsorship deals, commercial breaks, or halftime shows.

There is only community.

A few summers ago, Kelly Lund, his girlfriend, Ally Coucke, and their two dogs, Loki and Bailey, made the trip of a lifetime in their 2013 Toyota Tundra: a round-trip trek from Denver, Colorado to Prudhoe Bay, Alaska.

On November 9th, 2022, deep in the Australian bush, Mikey Wright slid out of the driver’s seat of his beloved Landcruiser 79 Series and held open the driver’s side door for his wife, Shenay. They were a few days into a group off-roading trip, hosted by BFGOODRICH® Tires. And after a lot of encouragement and a bit of the good kind of peer pressure from Mikey and friends, Shenay embarked on her very first run.

Picture it: a zoologist drives over a brutally rocky ridge in South Africa, a three-time world ski champion cuts through a whiteout in the Colorado Rockies, and a young adventurer overlands through thick mud in the Scottish Highlands.

There’s a moment during a road trip where you enter a flow state — when you turn off the outside noise, and tune into whatever’s in front of you. In these moments, we’re completely present. And all we need to capture them is distance, drive and a way forward.

You can learn a lot about a person by what’s in their garage. Take Andrew Comrie-Picard for example. He lives on a quiet, unassuming street. But this Canadian racecar driver, stuntman, TV personality and wine expert has years and years of stories hidden behind his ordinary garage door.

Whether he’s mowing lawns in Virginia on a zero-turn, hauling gear through the Rockies in a diesel Jetta wagon, busing from village to village in Ghana, cruising through Utah’s dunes on a Polaris RZR®, photographing Patagonia from an adapted Ford® 4x4 camping van, or heading to the kitchen for a snack in his wheelchair, Kirk Williams is going places. And he isn’t slowing down for anything.

As an on and off-road tire manufacturer, we work diligently to help our customers avoid the task of having to change a flat tire on the side of the road (or the trail).

Victor Nguyen always dreamed of visiting the Grand Canyon on dirt—you know, the old-fashioned way before there were things like roads. About a year ago, after four years of meticulously planning routes and ironing out dates, he and a group of off-roaders made the journey. Eight trucks embarked on a route that traversed the remote Northern Rim of the Grand Canyon, a route of obscure dirt trails that would take them from the highest point in the canyon to the lowest—a dirt trail that very few people, if any, have ever completed before.

In the winter of 2000, the famous Rubicon Trail was on the verge of being closed off for good.