Pyrenees, Andorra, Spain
A long drive down, but worth every kilometre: stunning ridgelines, perfect weather and plenty of miles through Andorra and the Catalan Pyrenees.
Over · Under · The · Sun
Over and under
the sun.
Overlanding trips across Europe, trail notes and one black Jeep Gladiator called Shadow that always finds the long way round.
Over
Over the pass, over the next ridge, over the part of the map where the road stops being a road.
Under
Under canvas, under the stars, under the truck with a headlamp and a socket set.
The
The detour, the wrong turn, the long way round. The bit that actually makes the trip.
Sun
Sunrise starts and sundowner camps. Everything worth remembering happens near one end of the day.
What this is
Over & Under The Sun
OUTS Overland is where I collect the trips — the planning, the routes, the gear that earned its place and the gear that didn’t, and the bits that went sideways along the way.
Overlanding is mostly the unglamorous half: load plans, tyre pressures, recovery gear you hope stays clean, and a lot of coffee made badly at altitude. That half is what I want to write about, because it’s the half nobody films.
Right now this is a starting line, not a finish. Trips, videos and photos are on the way — this page is the fixed point they’ll all be linked from.
Tours
Planning, route, gear, and what went wrong
[Photo · Tour 02]
[Tour 02 · Destination]
[Two sentences on the route and what made it special.]
[Photo · Tour 03]
[Tour 03 · Destination]
[Two sentences on the route and what made it special.]
The rig
Shadow
Named by my sons: Shadow Trooper, Shadow for short. Black, like everything on it.
Every overland build is a running argument between capability, weight and the money you’d rather spend on fuel. This one is somewhere in the middle of that argument, and it will stay there.
- Platform
- Jeep Gladiator 3.0L Overland
- Edition
- 80th Anniversary
- Colour
- Black. Obviously.
- Home base
- Germany
- Build sheet
- Coming soon
About me
Hans
I’m Hans. For work I deal with content on the internet at Meltwater — here I write down what happens on the trips with Shadow: the routes, the gear and the breakdowns in between.
Overlanding and coding are both passions of mine. One of them lives here; for more on the other, head to otype.de.
Home is Germany, and I rarely travel alone — on the first big trip, to the Pyrenees, a friend came along in his Land Rover Defender D110, usually leading the way when the track got narrow.
Channels
Instagram is live at @outsoverland. YouTube is being set up now and will be linked here first.
- YouTube soon
- Instagram instagram.com/outsoverland
- Email hallo@outsoverland.com