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Rendezvous in the Ozarks
The Ultimate Overlanding Get Together
By Matthew Anderson
We just pulled in from our latest adventure, and what an adventure it was. Camping and overlanding with over 440 rigs at the event, trail rides, and even evening movies for the kiddies. The venue this year was at Byrd’s Adventure Center and the Ozark National Forest. There are both primitive and electrical camping sites and we chose to go the primitive route. This led to late night stories around the camp fires, delicious cooking, and taste testing from other Overlanders. Byrd’s Riverfront Restaurant was also on site which included steaks, trout, catfish, chicken, smoked meats, burgers, breakfast, and homemade desserts.
Each day there were various overland related classes which included basic winching, recovery gear overview, vehicle packing off road safety, tread lightly, and first aid because you never know when or where you or a fellow off-roader is going to break down. Next to the basic winching class, we were given the ability to do our own recovery in a real-life situation giving those who attended the ability to see two recoveries at the same time.




Thank you to Natural State Overland for another successful Rendezvous in the Ozarks.
Website:
www.naturalstateoverland.org/