Hungry Valley Four-Wheelin’

 

   We went with the neighbors to Hungry Valley Recreational Vehicle Area to do some off-roading on extreme trails.

 

 

   Properly done and careful four wheeling can be done with little real injury to the environment.  Once a trail is cut, the local wildlife will use it as a quicker and easier way to get from place to place.  Four wheel vehicles should go on such areas in a slow and careful way… don’t spin your tires, don’t go flying in the air….. the real way to four wheel is to gruel nice and slow….. the tires always getting maximum traction by letting the thick treads dig into the dirt and rocks…. this is not the place to slide and spin…. one bounce the wrong way, and you might find yourself on a thousand foot-roll.

 

 

   I took the video below…. the descent was very steep and does not really show on film.  It was difficult just walking this trail down…. that Hummer is a very capable off-road vehicle, and our neighbor Lane who owns and drives it is a very capable driver.

 

 

 

   Now, I like Four-Wheel-Drive to get from one place to another that can’t be traversed by regular vehicles… yet for me it’s mostly a practicality issue. We use our Four-Wheel Drive dump truck to drive up and over huge piles of mulch when we’re dumping…. but the fellows in the video below like to use Four-Wheel-Drive in much the same way others will complete a complicated puzzle… they like the combination of mind-work required for such an operation…. get up and over an obstacle that others would pale at just contemplating.

 

  No, I’m not likely to ever try anything like this video below. It is a very complicated series of maneuvers, requiring a mix of spacial cognition and knowledge of physics in a ‘seat-of-the-pants’ way that is beyond the ken of most.

Part Two