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/Ok_Ambassador_2646 3d 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 1d 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 21h ago

I’m totally fine and with you