Difference in off road styles.

[jcoulter]

Yeah but it's harder to put on a good show that way.

[ped4599]

MOST of the time, slow and steady will still get you back to the garage on your own power. The hammer down method can make you end up miles from pavement with your jeep in a heap. On some of these trails, each rig has a hard enough time getting up the obstical. How would you expect tow a broke vehicle up that if the hammer down method rips the vehicle apart.
I usually go with low and slow....with only a little bit of goosing it here and there as needed.

[jcoulter]

Well you won't usually rip your vehicle apart. At worst you break one axle but not both. I've seen some ingenious trail fixes to enable getting out of the park and on the trailer. Of course if you drove it there, well you're probably SOL.

Also a good reason to NEVER wheel alone.

[Matt]

I'd rather just use skill and not break anything if possible.

I've been on trail runs where someone broke something like that being stupid (not purely by accident).... sure, we got him outta there. But you know what else it did? It ruined the day.

Granted things are bound to break while offroading... it's part of the sport. But when you haphazardly attack an obstacle without care if you break something or not, well, that's kind of lame IMO.

[Sal-XK]

Slow and steady is the way to go

[jcoulter]

So like this?





Not this?





Or this?

[Sal-XK]

Well, mud is a hole different ball game.

[jcoulter]

Unfortunately that's the closest thing for me.

[Sal-XK]

Unfortunately that's the closest thing for me.

Ya not much to choose from up there. I see mud down here I try to go around it LOL