What do you mean you finally made the little ledge? Did you try it in the past and not succeed or it took you a while on this trip? Did the tires make a big difference?

I've been down that trail many times, and nobody makes that ledge. It is a given that you bust out the winch after attempting to get up there.

If you've never been in Texas Gumbo Mud it's probably hard to understand the difficulty of this obstacle.

Here are a few reference photo's:

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This H2 took about 2 hours to winch out. We actually had a Jeep with a 9,000 lbs winch pulling on the passanger rear recovery hook. The Jeep was then strapped to an H1 behind him, because he was getting pulled in. Then we had another H1 with a 12,000 lbs winch snatched to a tree pulling on the right hook.

Even with that it was a struggle to pull him out, and he popped a bead of his tire doing so.

And belive it or not, this Jeep is also stuck.

I'm not sure the Tires made all the difference in this scenario. But in general over the weekend, the extra clearance helped a hell of lot.

The traction on the rear tires was also great, and I'm sure helped a lot going up that mud slide.

The baldness of the front tires was painfully evident in some situations. I also didn't feel comfortable with those tires aired down to 20. The rubber on the front 2 tires is in very bad shape, and after running one trail with them at 20, I decided to not take my chances and ran with them at 30, which worked well.

All in all I'm very happy with them.



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North Texas Hummer Team Member

2003 Red H2 equipped with Tough Country Heavy Duty Armor Series Front End with Winch, Rear Bumper, Brush Guard, and Roof Rack.