Yup -- I remember that, too! <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/lol.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/ignore.gif" alt="" />

I don't have any pix, either, as I recall, I was tailgunning and folks only turned around to look because they heard a 4ZE1 revving, valves floating, and wondered why. The wheelstand happened quick enough to evade capture on film.

I was descending a pretty steep bit on Hole in the Rock, playing with my newly-installed low-low-low transmission and transfer case gears, just idling steeply downward against engine compression and feeling SUPREMELY in control. I was having so much fun that I failed to notice the large hole that I drove the front wheel into. I *did* however notice the end-over that it caused, so I stomped on the gas to motor out of it. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/coolg.gif" alt="" />
...the problem was that I was still in stupid-low, chugging along in 211:1. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/shiner.gif" alt="" />
Over-the-ground speed at idle is slow... and floored, engine screaming, it really ain't much faster. I felt both rear wheels come up and felt the truck start to twist a little bit before the front wheel hit the bottom of the hole and started to push back. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif" alt="" /> UZI bicycled for what seemed like forever (later reports estimated this at mebbe a second or two at most), and then the rear end started to come back down, luckily, only a little bit sideways. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/mrt.gif" alt="" />
When all four wheels got good and planted, I took my foot out of redline, and shifted out of silly-low, feeling lucky, stupid, and relieved all at once.

The moral to this story: EVERYTHING goes slow *IN* the truck at those kinds of wheelspeeds, but the truck can move much faster relative to the terrain, wheelspeed notwithstanding.

Good times, Steve! <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/cheers.gif" alt="" /> I'll always remember Walt and Larry from that trip, as well. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/kewl.gif" alt="" /> Next time, Steve, I'm taking enough time to hike down to the water... would be WAY cool to paddle across and camp opposite, up top in the real Hole. I still recall with a smile the looks of incredulity I received wending my way across the high desert with water transportation strapped atop the Amigo. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/shiner.gif" alt="" />

Randii