Got back from the UP yesterday. That's a long drive. And expensive at about 17MPG, lol.
First of all, the Michigan Upper Peninsula is beautiful. Just sitting in the backyard looking out at Lake Superior with a breeze at about 60 degrees made the drive worth it. We went into an old copper cave, we went through a smelter tour, visited Calumet Air Force Station, went to a pasty festival... It was awesome.
On Friday, we did some trails. Mostly it was basic logging trail stuff, but we also did the Cliff Mine Dive trail. My Ranger would have been too long to make it, haha. We ran into a twisty, rocky, uphill portion where my friend's LX had a tire come off the bead. They were able to winch to relieve pressure and pop it back onto the bead, so that was good. The LX and Sequoia made it eventually.
That's where I was most impressed with the 250. I had both lockers engaged (low range obviously). LX driver spotted me. And it just went. I forgot crawl control existed and drove it in 1st gear. Only aired down to 20 PSI because we were doing a lot of road driving, too, and those tires did great on the rocks. We later did a sand hill on the side of the trail a few times. 250 drove over it like it was pavement.
Shockingly my spare never hit anything. I had one strike on my factory skid, but I knew it was coming, so it was more of a slow squeak.
I want to go back to cool weather and no signal.
Also, right before I left Florida, I picked up a pair of TRD Tacoma front tow hooks. Took about two minutes to install. So that was neat.
First of all, the Michigan Upper Peninsula is beautiful. Just sitting in the backyard looking out at Lake Superior with a breeze at about 60 degrees made the drive worth it. We went into an old copper cave, we went through a smelter tour, visited Calumet Air Force Station, went to a pasty festival... It was awesome.
On Friday, we did some trails. Mostly it was basic logging trail stuff, but we also did the Cliff Mine Dive trail. My Ranger would have been too long to make it, haha. We ran into a twisty, rocky, uphill portion where my friend's LX had a tire come off the bead. They were able to winch to relieve pressure and pop it back onto the bead, so that was good. The LX and Sequoia made it eventually.
That's where I was most impressed with the 250. I had both lockers engaged (low range obviously). LX driver spotted me. And it just went. I forgot crawl control existed and drove it in 1st gear. Only aired down to 20 PSI because we were doing a lot of road driving, too, and those tires did great on the rocks. We later did a sand hill on the side of the trail a few times. 250 drove over it like it was pavement.
Shockingly my spare never hit anything. I had one strike on my factory skid, but I knew it was coming, so it was more of a slow squeak.
I want to go back to cool weather and no signal.
Also, right before I left Florida, I picked up a pair of TRD Tacoma front tow hooks. Took about two minutes to install. So that was neat.
