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I know this doesn't answer your traveling question but where in PCola do you live? I grew up in Cantonment off of Kingsfield Rd not too far from Tate High School.
More by the airport. I’m friends with a lot of people that went to Tate. I grew up in Pace. I see you are at LeJeune now, I spent the rest of my childhood at Cherry Point and college in Wilmington. Small world.
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No kidding! My platoon commander grew up in Pace as well and my wife grew up in Molino.
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I hate to disagree with you Billybob but fifty years ago I was in those station wagons with a car full of kids. Very few autos had posi traction in those days, not even pick up's. We went out on the back roads but not in the rain. We didn't go in the sand at all and when we did we always got stuck and had to be pulled out buy some farmer with a tractor or rancher with a jeep. My generation would have been better off with a model A or T, they would go just about anywhere if not forward then in reverse. We use to hill climb with model A's when I was a teen ager. Going up hill backward was always the way to get to the top. Along came 1968, I finally bought my first truck. We headed out to the back country non solid ground. after a while we came to a sand doon area that was about a half mile long. I could see someone had been driving across it so there I went following the trail. About 200 yards in I became bogged down, then finding out my brand new truck did not have posi traction. Along came a man in a jeep and offered to help me out. I said no, I will manage I am just barely stuck. He went on easily. I worked and shoveled dirt for about 2 hours trying to get out. The more I tried the deeper the truck sank in the sand. I could hear some sounds coming from just behind a sand hill so I started walking till I came across a bunch of 4 wheel guy's (sheriffs department posse rescue guys) and the man who had originally tried to help me. I asked for help and he told me Fella when someone offers to help you, you otta listen and take him up on it. I'll help you this time but I better not ever see you again out here in a 2 wheel drive again. I was embarrassed but he was right. I have only driven 4 wheel drive vehicle ever since then. From many miles of traveling back country I can only say you had better have 4 wheel dire and a locker diff at least on the rear if you go to back country and especially if you are alone. There are a few places I would go with a 2 wheel drive tuck but not without a locker rear and good ground clearance and plenty of water so I wont die before someone rescues me.. Then I would be very careful of where I went and carry a portable hitch winch with ropes, chains, shovels and jacks with jack seats.
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Billybob, you are dead right about something here. The driver and driving skills and ability to estimate the danger of the path or road ahead of you means a whole lot. Experience helps a lot in knowing the momentum required to go over certain places. I think I told you I use to race cars many years ago. You could give the worst car to the best driver and he could still win the race. You could give the best car to the worse driver and he would still come in dead last. Skill has a lot to do with the ability of the car be it 2 wheel or 4 wheel drive. If you don't know how to drive a 4 wheel vehicle you are still in trouble.
This is why I love TJs and Cortinas.
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The guy in the video pretty much says the same thing I have said in this thread. Use you head, prepare for the worst, Don't go into no mans land.Oh yeah, looks broken for me too. Let me try again. And the forum service seems to keep breaking on a link directly to the video.
Here’s a link to the channel and there’s a video in there called “Can you go off road in a 2wd truck?”
I'm from Jacksonville (dad is from Pensacola, went to Pine Forest, and much of my family is still in the area) and moved to Wyoming in 2018. There is plenty to see here, but you'll probably be restricted to lower elevations since many mountain passes and locations will be closed until Memorial Day. I live in Casper, which is centrally located and alongside I-25, so I'd be happy to show you around or point you in the right direction. April is hit-or-miss – a spring snowstorm can happen at any time. We had an odd winter this year, and our last major snow (in Casper) was in late May. I've been to nearly every part of the state so far, and I'm happy to share what I know.
