Aug 2, 2020
MABDR Day One
Day One on the Mid-Atlantic Backcountry Discovery Route. A day of great views, fun Jeep roads, wildlife, and torrential thunderstorms. It’s always an adventure with the monkeys!
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MABDR Day One
Day One on the Mid-Atlantic Backcountry Discovery Route. A day of great views, fun Jeep roads, wildlife, and torrential thunderstorms. It’s always an adventure with the monkeys!
The Mid-Atlantic BDR
It has been quiet in the jungle, or at least on the monkey blog. That doesn’t mean we haven’t been constantly exploring. But there comes a time when we need a little bit bigger adventure, and as we normally do, we’ve been loosely planning one for a month or so.
Across the United States over the last decade, there has been a steady development of “Backcountry Discovery Routes.” In short, they are multi-stage routes that explore the hidden areas of a specific state or region following the path of forest roads and out-of-the-way old highways. With large sections of jeep trails and dirt roads, they were designed for adventure motorcycles, jeeps, or overlanding trucks.
In 2018, a new route was established called the Mid-Atlantic Backcountry Discovery Route, or the MABDR. This traverses over 1000 miles from the westernmost parts of Virginia up through Pennsylvania. We set our sights on this one. Initially, we had planned on taking the motos, but LunaChimp had a strong desire to bring one of her closest friends; and the evolution of the journey began. Since Luna isn’t old enough to legally pilot a moto in North Carolina, we decided at first that she and her buddy would drive the Land Rover as a sag wagon to support the two motos. After an exploration of the first 77 miles of the route, we came to the conclusion that the motos were going to be much faster than the Rover and we would spend most of our time waiting on each other. Unacceptable to the monkey credo of staying together, we further modified the trip by dropping the motos and adding a Jeep Wrangler to the mix.
Thus, our plan was gelled. A Rover and a Jeep on a journey through the backroads and mountains of Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania. Starting this Saturday morning August 1, 2020, we’ll be running the satellite tracker in the Jeep so you’ll be able to see us moving along the track if you want and with a few fingers crossed, we’ll be posting regularly about our adventure.
As a teaser, we encourage you to look at the official MABDR YouTube videos.