My now good friend Steve and I as well as Steve's good friend (The Humvee owner) and my other good friend (My FedEx) rep took off on a pretty sick trail today. Pictures never do this stuff justice but I can tell you a couple things. First, the trail was so nasty/dangerous in some areas (Steve will play this down because he's the resident tough guy) that we couldn't have and shouldn't have gotten out to take pics. This would have stopped our forward motion, which would have been disastrous on some of these super rocky inclines (only the 2 of us were there so we were very limited with watching each others back). There were also drop offs that we simply didn't want to drop off (H1 will struggle on this, it's not wide enough). Second, the trail was black diamond and rated "most difficult". We still ventured off of this rated trail to more difficult stuff to really push the H2. I admit that Steve is a better driver. He is very good with his lines and managed to traverse a very nasty, rocky slope with ease. I managed to dig myself in a hole (very loose stuff) so Steve was nice enough to winch me out from the top (moved me 1') then I tried it again and made it no problem. Let's get it straight. There is no stock machine better than an H2. We only saw 1 ATV on the trail. Clearly on the more difficult runs there were no signs of truck 4x4 passage only ATV. My pics suck because I couldn't get out until the trail got lighter (off the inclines). Steve may have more. This pic is at the top after the hard work was over. It has lightened up enough that I could stop, grab my camera and take a pic.
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