I do not go "off road" with the egg. I stay on roads... rough ones... sometimes very rough ones.. but I don't go off road unless it is to park and set up the Casita. ("off roading "sounds macho and it makes me feel good. So there ya go:)

Since everyone has their own idea about what makes a road "rough" then how I describe the kinds of roads I use probably wont relate to your idea of rough roads. But I can tell you without fear of contradiction that the major gravel highways in BC and Alaska are not "rough" in comparison.

Southern Utah has thousands of miles of dirt roads that are sometimes rocky, sometimes sandy, sometimes washboard, sometimes level...and sometimes not, but they seemingly never end. I can drive my truck on dirt roads from here in Kanab to Reno, Las Vegas, or Phoenix without using pavement except to cross a highway. No private property in the way, just public land forever it seems. Of course the egg is not designed to take long trips on these roads and in fact I wont ever try anything over 70 miles one-way ( read this web page about Toroweep).

A trip to Tuweep is not for everyone, but for those who do not mind driving for 2.5 hours on a washboard dirt, tire ripping, primitive road to the very edge of the Grand Canyon, Tuweep is magnificent!

The 2.5 hours described here takes me 4 to 5 hours pulling the Casita.

The two main hazards in trailer pulling on UT/AZ rough roads are tire puncture (from sharp rocks) and rivet busting vibration. The ranchers here about are very savvy and a really good source of input because they pull horse and cattle haulers out there all the time. If they say bias ply LT tires give them fewer flats then I have to believe them. Much of my limited tire and suspension knowledge comes from them as well as my off road racing friends and Jim Bonner at Kanab Tire. Jim's business is tires and he keeps very busy each summer replacing slashed tires from the Toroweap road. Jim says, "If they ever paved that road I would have to close up shop and retire" As for vibration my friend Bob suggested I buy John Dixon's "Shock Absorber's Handbook". I did but I don't understand most of it and I even have a Mechanical Engineering Degree. However I did pick up on vibration theory and it makes a lot of sense... as a theory.