Every two years, a group of old friends stages (and even sometimes completes!) a rally. It's not entirely about speed like a rally race, but it's still a fast-paced off-roading and camping event. It's always 1000+ miles, and sometimes our routes have as few as 13 miles on pavement (we need fuel!). We don't have sponsors, and we don't often invite new folks into the group. I live for these events, have spent countless hours in the garage preparing for these events, and yet...as quick as they're over, I want to do it all over again.

This year's event topped them all. Beginning at four corners, we rallied for five and a half days of slow, calculated off-roading combined with flying across BLM roads at 60+ mph and camping wherever we could find a halfway flat spot for the night. You lose track of time and date, of emails and the office, and of every other kind of thing that remotely resembles "normal." (You do keep track of the ⛽️ gauge—the deserts of Utah are no place to be stranded!)

We're never without breakages that press us for time and keep us driving halfway into the night. But we always persevere, and this Jeep made it all the way to the end.

• NIKON D850
• 70mm
• ƒ/2.8
• 1/6s
• 3200