Ok, Saturday is when it really got interesting from an offroading point of view.
The variety of trucks was fun, lots of different ones like this Scrambler.
How you can tell where the heck you are at.
Ran into the Jeep club from Omaha "Just Jeeps of Omaha" which was neat. They were nice and welcomed us to tag along.
Hard to say exactly what they thought of us, they were curious about our car and asked what all I had done to it. Basically nothing, just the lights radio and receiver hitch.
I had been dogging along trying to figure this new fangled thing out. 4hi was kind of a joke, 4lo was ok but I just wasn't super happy. Then I remembered I have GOAT modes to play with. Rock Crawl... words can not describe. First off when you set it you get this screen which has about everything a guy needs to know.
The throttle is better, the TC is infinitly better. I do wish there was a way to be able to toggle the rear locker on and off though. It is manatory on and you have to do the hokey-pokey by going to neutral to get into regular 4lo and you lose the cool screen and the better throttle/trans tune if you want to turn sharp.
Towards the end of the morning we came to a pretty substantial hillclimb with a nasty ledge at the top. Looked horrible from down below. Kid was almost in tears already about me using the skid plates and being concerned I was hurting "his" Bronco. The jeep people assured me I could get up it and if not they had winches up there to get me up. Nothing was really appealing... so Amanda went for a walk and found another trail that basically went around it and was super easy. So we went that way and had no drama or crying from the back seat.
Also this is the only shot from the outside with me in "Rock Crawl", however much smoother and more controlled it looks than the previous clips it felt 10 fold better from the cockpit.
Then we got to sit and watch the 2dr pull a wheelie getting over that ledge.
Then they invited us back to their campsite for lunch, it was a lot of fun hanging out with them and pushing my boundries.