Any advice on a three day “adventure” in the Mojave Desert?

Now I’m familiar with camping in the desert, riding ATV’s and Dirt Bikes, staying for the weekend with either tents or a toy hauler. Going on short day rides and coming back to camp, if you would call it that seeing how it’s a toy hauler. anyways… Me and my friends wanted to do something more, adventuress, like riding 750 miles on are quads over a three day period, we wouldn’t be able to carry anything extra on our small vehicles other than what we need to keep them going (gas, spare parts incase of break down, flat tire repair kits, etc, etc..) So everything else we need would have to be carried on our backs. Now I’m not familiar with the larger backpacks people use on long hikes, all we regularly use are CamelBak backpacks which are pretty small. What kind of backpack could carry all the water we would need plus all of our gear?

I would suggest an external-frame backpack has a metal frame (usually aluminum tubing) to which the fabric of the pack is attached. The frame has a belt (which goes around the waist, above the hips) and shoulder straps. The belt and shoulder straps are adjusted so that the majority of the weight is carried by the belt, with the shoulder loops carrying little or no weight. The reason for this is that one can carry much heavier loads and for longer periods (with less fatigue) if the weight is carried on the hips rather than on the shoulders. Furthermore, it is much easier to balance a load which is at the hips (near ones center of gravity) than it is to balance a load on the shoulders. Consequently, the chances of falling or tripping are greatly reduced.

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