First offroad with my new baby

[TOYO74]

Nice trip and photos. Lots of good advice re; tires, etc. but as Turfboy posted, for a beginner , taking a few trips with some experienced 4 wheelers is number one! You can learn a lot just from seeing others drive.

Remember: 4wd allows you to go farther and get stuck worse than 2wd. If you are alone, then you have a real problem unless you are prepared and know what to do.

Enjoy your 4R!

 

[jhmoore]

Remember: 4wd allows you to go farther and get stuck worse than 2wd. If you are alone, then you have a real problem unless you are prepared and know what to do.

Absolutely! I’m a big believer in having a crapload if water, emergency food, good boots, and satellite comms. Actually, I recently cancelled my Spot GPS and need to replace it (likely with an InReach).

The incident after which I bought the Spot GPS:
» Lucky to Be Alive John H. Moore Photography

 

[ShermanOlsen]

How’s the ride? Any appreciable difference from stock? Stock size?

Stock size. There's no shortage of opinions and threads on tires, but I've been very happy with them. My priority was a well reviewed AT with wet weather traction for the PNW. I put so few miles on the stockers I can't really compare but they're certainly less squishy/nose divey and even though it seems like they should be louder I can't say I noticed a difference. The truck's not too quiet to begin with! I didn't want to degrade the mileage and ride quality as much as an E rated tire would so that narrows the tire model options. I've cruised my KDSS equipped Trail at 85+ and felt totally secure.

 

[4runr4eva]

Absolutely! I’m a big believer in having a crapload if water, emergency food, good boots, and satellite comms. Actually, I recently cancelled my Spot GPS and need to replace it (likely with an InReach).

The incident after which I bought the Spot GPS:
» Lucky to Be Alive John H. Moore Photography

Great read. Thanks for sharing. I was hiking in Yosmite and Redrocks, CO and ran into three rattlesnakes. Definitely sends a chill up the spine when you hear the rattle. I hike here in New England and we basically have garter snakes. I still get quite started when one slithers out of the brush. :bolt:

 

[marcomixtle]

John, Welcome. If you want to get a feel for your rig you might want to take an off road driving class. check out "Badlands off road adventures".
They have classes in Anza Borrego and in Gorman.
Look at there web site.
I'm not associated with them.

Thanks for this tip man. I'll be signing up for the August 4th noob class in Hungry Valley!

 

[IRONLUNG]

Crazy kids!:jump: Glad to hear you didn't have any issues first trip out OP...