Bunky
11-06-2014, 04:29 PM
It was a great day for driving. I went to the end of the state maintenance and followed the unpaved road (almost trail now). I drove it in my truck many years ago and it was not this bad.
I got it to the crest and turned around to drive back and ran into a F150 trying this same road. This is a narrow, rutted, rock road (looks like blasted to make a logging road). The F150 ended up backing up (luckily not over 50 ft to a clearing). The wife had just said I hope we do not meet anyone on this road.
Also, I faced the situation where the 825i would not shift easily. It had not worked as hard to date (deep ruts, rocks, running water stream) and with a ton of leaves so a slippery but plenty of climbing all in 4WD. It never felt taxed.
We drove to the inlaw' s (grandmother on wife's side) homestead in the Gator down the road and met the current owner. He offered for us to some trails he made. All these trails are always going up and down mountains.
I got it to the crest and turned around to drive back and ran into a F150 trying this same road. This is a narrow, rutted, rock road (looks like blasted to make a logging road). The F150 ended up backing up (luckily not over 50 ft to a clearing). The wife had just said I hope we do not meet anyone on this road.
Also, I faced the situation where the 825i would not shift easily. It had not worked as hard to date (deep ruts, rocks, running water stream) and with a ton of leaves so a slippery but plenty of climbing all in 4WD. It never felt taxed.
We drove to the inlaw' s (grandmother on wife's side) homestead in the Gator down the road and met the current owner. He offered for us to some trails he made. All these trails are always going up and down mountains.