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00:02 Our goal is just to make it from here
00:21 to the other side of the Mojave road,
00:22 which is 130 miles away off-road.
00:25 So these are right now the like baddest off-road
00:28 mid-sized trucks you can get.
00:29 The Jeep Gladiator's all new,
00:31 the Toyota Tacoma TRD Pro,
00:33 and then last but not least,
00:35 the Chevrolet Colorado ZR2 Bison.
00:38 We're here with mountains, with river crossings,
00:41 no campground sites.
00:42 We'll be off the grid completely.
00:43 So it should be a fun adventure.
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00:50 - You see a cairn there?
01:03 - No, I think you can keep going straight.
01:05 - I think so too, but it talks about multiple Ys
01:07 and like you can go left,
01:08 push on the mountain,
01:08 but it doesn't look like it goes anywhere.
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01:16 - Stop, stop, stop, stop, stop.
01:36 - What was that?
01:37 - All right, it's on the ground,
01:40 but keep going 'cause I gotta get that thing on the hook.
01:43 - Dammit, Miguel, blame you.
01:46 - We've already had our first flat tire,
01:52 which is exciting.
01:53 The sport vehicle, of course,
01:56 the one vehicle that only has one square tire,
01:58 not two or three,
02:00 but we're pressing on farther than we had originally planned.
02:03 The trail is challenging, but not too challenging.
02:07 All the trucks are doing good.
02:09 So I'm feeling really confident for tomorrow, Wednesday,
02:12 but we'll see what the terrain
02:14 and especially what the weather bring.
02:16 (wind blowing)
02:26 - My night was terrible.
02:27 - The wind was horrendous last night.
02:29 - It was like this all night.
02:31 - It ripped all the pegs out of my rain fly.
02:34 - My tent was shaking.
02:36 - So that sucked, no fun.
02:38 - So yesterday we had to cover 40 miles of off-road terrain
02:42 and we got in about 55 miles.
02:44 So that was more than what we had planned.
02:47 I believe there's some challenging parts on the way
02:50 and I'm looking forward to that.
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02:57 - I'm gonna beat them by stakes.
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03:15 - I create.
03:27 (indistinct)
03:30 - Cool, I'm going to the sweet lava cave right now.
03:33 So tell me about it when you're done.
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03:39 - So, you know, we have pretty serious weather conditions.
03:44 So forecast says that there's winds of 40 miles an hour
03:49 and gusts of up to 60 miles an hour.
03:52 On top of that, there's rain tomorrow morning
03:55 starting at 5 a.m.
03:56 So what we'll probably do tonight is bail on camping
04:01 and go spend the night in Barstow.
04:04 So right now we have about another 40 miles to go
04:06 and I think we should be good.
04:08 (upbeat music)
04:10 - Looks like we go up here
04:18 and then go right underneath the bridge.
04:20 (indistinct)
04:23 - Okay, whenever you're ready,
04:29 it might be better to go slow.
04:31 - It's (beep) swimming for sure.
04:35 (wind blowing)
04:38 - I'm gonna go overkill, four-wheel,
04:44 I heard it's locked, everything on.
04:47 - Chevy, whenever you're ready.
04:50 - That's really (beep) deep.
04:53 (laughing)
05:04 - So we just drove 130-ish miles from Fort Mojave
05:09 all the way to just east of Barstow.
05:12 - Yeah, we had to hail Mary
05:13 and just charge through the rest of the trail
05:15 as fast as we could.
05:16 - I think it teaches you how the weather
05:19 can really, really make you think about
05:23 where you're gonna go and what you're gonna do
05:25 and it could be dangerous.
05:27 Things could get pretty dangerous pretty quickly.
05:30 - My biggest takeaway is how capable all these trucks are
05:32 from the factory.
05:33 They don't need anything else.
05:35 This Chevy I'm sitting in right now
05:36 has locking front and rear diffs.
05:37 The Jeep over there has a disconnecting anti-roll bar
05:40 so the front axle is always touching the ground.
05:43 The Toyota has a snorkel, so that's pretty cool.
05:47 But none of these vehicles need anything,
05:50 you know, period, they're done.
05:52 You don't need to buy this and add a suspension lift
05:54 or different tires or anything.
05:57 These trucks are perfect the way they are.
05:59 And the fact that you can get them like that
06:00 with a factory warranty and then do what we did,
06:02 is pretty damn cool.
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