Last weekend, I went wheeling with a bunch of Toyotas - four 4Runners and one Taco.  They were lightly modified.

It was strange running with long wheelbase, wide rigs, without lockers!  I ran tail-gunner, so after they would all grunt, grind, and strain over an obstacle, I would just tiptoe right through it, without spinning a tire...

But you know what?  It was great fun.  It was the first time I had wheeled in 5 months, so my face was sore from smiling, but a part of that was the fun of just going out, and cruising with some new friends, in beautiful territory.  I forget what it's like, NOT having front and rear air-lockers, and 90:1 gearing.  We had a blast.

You people out west don't realize how good you have it. The closest place to legally go wheeling is Paragon Adventure park in PA. I joined a local club in hopes to get some wheelin in. but all they do is bag on my rig. Go figure.....I haven't even had a chance to run with them yet cause I have had things going on every weekend that they have run since i joined.

I know EXACTLY what you mean ...

A week and a half ago I went out to a place with some folks in FS rigs (and a lightly modified heep showed up too). I was just crawling up climbs they couldn't make (one guy bent a tie rod within 30 seconds of getting there).

Of course, I decided to show off and started doing the obstacles in reverse 

The guy in the heep didn't even know what a locker was ... He got an appreciation for what that can do for ya

At least there are rocks and hills where you guys live. We have nothing but sand and mud, and even the mud here is pretty boring. All the wheeling anyone here does most of the time is go find a mud hole in the middle of a field and try and get a fullsize truck on 40" tires stuck. Not my idea of fun.

So I take it all your new mods worked good for you Good to see your still showing up the 'bigger rigs' even after a 5 month vacation

Zig

So I take it all your new mods worked good for you

You know it!  The whole experience took me back to why I bought my rig in the first place - not to just "go wheeling", but to get TO places, that I couldn't before, or that would take too long.  The idea was to wheel to a trailhead, grab my backpack, and hoof it from there, up into the farthest reaches of the Wilderness Areas that are still unspoiled, and breathtaking.  Now, mind you, it's not like I'm going to stop going to Moab (but as close as Moab is, there's no reason to limit myself to just Zukfari), I'm just going to spend more time in those "hard to reach" corners of the mountains where I live.

That would be awesome to have a mountainous hiking wonderland in your back yard. Most things areoun here are "private land" or organized parks where it has already been spoiled :'(

Zig

My friends and I that wheel with our little zuks are always making the hard lines look easy when we're out running with other tyoes of rigs. We go out with a guy running a CJ5, one runs a 60's Bronco, there's also a full size bronco and a very modified YJ and they always seem to make things look harder than they are... LOL!