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Unrelated but good to note: watch out for those wash-outs in the desert! No one was around so I couldn't offer to pull them out.

I've played around on some spots that cross up the axles and lift a tire. As the tire is spinning I'm slowly pressing the accelerator further and you can see how the tire doesn't spin wildly out of control. Snow and offroad mode both get through this spot but there's definitely a difference in...

I have found with my dual motor (non performance) that you have to avoid the instinct to let off when a tire spins a bit, or the traction control doesn't have time to work. When a tire starts spinning you have to press further on the accelerator and unlike a gas vehicle which will excessively...

I showed my kids the picture of that tree house in your trip report, and they want to go there!

The tires are 275/60r20 Bridgestone dueler a/t which were the factory tires off a full size truck that I got for $200 (someone lifted their new truck so they were selling the stock tires), so even though they are 115 load rated and not as heavy duty as I prefer, I figured I would give them a...

We wanted to go into Kodachrome but with the short hours of daylight at this time of year (and shorter after trying to get kids moving!) we knew we wouldn't be able to spend enough time there to do it justice. It's good to know they have power and good bathrooms for a future trip!

That's what's frustrating with taking pictures of these areas; when you're there you can just stare and be amazed, and then you try to capture it in a picture and it's not the same! Here's a good 'spot the person' picture from last week:)

Just for fun, trying to go back up the steep hill I came down into the wash where peekaboo canyon starts. Always hard to get the steepness perspective in a video! The main trail is much easier!

Driving out of the lower parking area of White Pocket. After seeing videos of people getting stuck on this hill, it was much less drama than I expected!

On our last day we checked out the sand caves just north of Kanab, went through the Best Friends animal sanctuary so the kids could beg for more pets, and went out to peek-a-boo (or red) canyon. The route out to the canyon was much deeper sand than the day before, especially since I took 102L...

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The next day we went out to Wire Pass, a slot canyon that joins the Buckskin Gulch slot canyon in the Vermillion Cliffs national monument. I aired down to 30psi shortly after getting onto House Rock Valley Road because it had a lot of washboard and loose chunky rock on it. After wire pass we...

I took my family on a trip to southern Utah over New years in order to do some desert exploring. Our first day was traveling from western Colorado to Escalante, Utah with a short detour into Capitol Reef national park to hike down capitol gorge. We arrived at the canyon county lodge with 12% and...

I don't know if the speed is limited in offroad mode. I know that the height drops from high to normal at 45; it will drop from highest at some speed less than that. I've been pleased with how smooth the dual motor is at low speeds through rough terrain, even in snow mode.

My 2025 dual motor max pack came with tow hooks without the offroad package. I think the standard battery dual motor versions don't come with tow hooks. Also I don't have the performance upgrade so I prefer to use snow mode on mild trails and then switch to offroad mode when the terrain gets...

Great trip report! I was just looking into how to get to white pocket because we may be doing a trip to Escalante and Kanab around new years to explore some of the area.

An additional battery pack would most certainly take away from payload, so even if it were only 800-1000 pounds (to provide possibly an extra 100kwh) there wouldn't be a lot of capacity left for people/stuff, not to mention trailer tongue weight.

Yes almost certainly. Hopefully with the changes discussed earlier it lasts much longer.

I have a gen 2 R1S so I decided to investigate the 12v relocation. There is a panel under the front of the passenger seat that easily pops off to see a little bit of the 12v battery (green in the picture). The negative battery cable connects to the body under that panel as well. I also checked...

The padding is a good idea. I still have some rubber sheet that I used on the lower vertical part so when the pin is in it doesn't rattle. EDIT: I added a couple layers of thick wide electrical tape to the tire carrier where the taillight would contact.