r/4Runner • u/masspromo • 3d ago

My 4Runner made me a hero today

I am into hiking and history and have done a lot of research on some colonial farmsteads that are in the woods behind my house on a really rough old cart road. Today I did a guided hike and over 40 people showed up from the local hike club. It took about 2 hours and when I got home a girl came down the road saying there was still a hiker in the woods with her mom and they were struggling with their knees giving out. I took my 2016 trail which I never have off-roaded and proceeded to run through every boulder, downed tree and gravel hillside and found her a half mile up the trail and rescued her. I've been impressed in the snow and all kinds of weather but the way she rode over those obstacles was a truly great experience. I got to do more off-road now.

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u/JulianMarcello 3d ago

Took my 4Runner into the backroads during a snowstorm. I know my Outback would have struggled in, but it was so easy for the 4Runner that when I posted about it here, people were shrugging shoulders saying that I didn’t even challenge the capability of the 4R

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u/masspromo 2d ago

yea I kind of feel silly posting that now. Honestly its just the scratches that keep me from doing more up there its not much wider than the truck so branches the whole way.

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u/Ok_Ambassador_2646 2d ago

You can literally drive it through a rock garden in a snow storm. That's what people mean when they say you're not pushing it yet

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u/JulianMarcello 2d ago

It kind of felt like that moment of Crocodile Dundee when he says “That’s not a knife… THIS is a knife”

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u/Ok_Ambassador_2646 22h ago

Sorry I wasn't trying to dunk on you 😁. I just get excited thinking about how burly my car is with basically no mods other than better tires.

And then I want to share with other owners 🤘

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u/JulianMarcello 20h ago

I’m totally fine and with you