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Hit Gulches off road park in SC last weekend with a buddy. Driving my stock non-sad badlands. I’ve had it off road at a friends place a couple times, but nothing like what we experienced at Gulches.
Pretty intimidating pulling up and seeing a high percentage of custom built jeeps that look more like buggies. “Oh my. What are we doing here…?”
first off. Lot of staring at at us. Not a lot of introductions from others, with one big exception of a great guy who helped us through some things and gave a lot of pointers. People did warm up to us after a bit though. Yeah, mostly Wranglers on the range of the custom scale. A few modded Tacoma’s. Nothing very stock, and definitely no other Broncos. We had a few guys who were obviously following us around to see what happened. Some mildly ummm… skeptical of the Bronco. Some just curious.
we covered the greens /and the blues. Wisely avoided the black diamonds+. We rode the park for almost 6 hours.
a few takeaways. 1) the Bronco is amazingly capable for a stock vehicle. If there was uncertainty about whether we’d be able to handle an obstacle, not once did it disappoint. 2) Very glad I have the steel underbody panels. They now have a shiny silver appearance! 3) I love the 33s, and didn’t get SAS due to the gas mileage impact, but this excursion had me second guessing that. 4) front and rear lockers… what an amazing difference lockers make. Had no idea. Night and day, and the sway bar disconnect at the push of a button. So spoiled with those features!
Pretty intimidating pulling up and seeing a high percentage of custom built jeeps that look more like buggies. “Oh my. What are we doing here…?”
first off. Lot of staring at at us. Not a lot of introductions from others, with one big exception of a great guy who helped us through some things and gave a lot of pointers. People did warm up to us after a bit though. Yeah, mostly Wranglers on the range of the custom scale. A few modded Tacoma’s. Nothing very stock, and definitely no other Broncos. We had a few guys who were obviously following us around to see what happened. Some mildly ummm… skeptical of the Bronco. Some just curious.
we covered the greens /and the blues. Wisely avoided the black diamonds+. We rode the park for almost 6 hours.
a few takeaways. 1) the Bronco is amazingly capable for a stock vehicle. If there was uncertainty about whether we’d be able to handle an obstacle, not once did it disappoint. 2) Very glad I have the steel underbody panels. They now have a shiny silver appearance! 3) I love the 33s, and didn’t get SAS due to the gas mileage impact, but this excursion had me second guessing that. 4) front and rear lockers… what an amazing difference lockers make. Had no idea. Night and day, and the sway bar disconnect at the push of a button. So spoiled with those features!
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