This driver has activated the anti-gravity unit in their Jeep.
Sand Hollow State Park in Utah is about as stereotypical ‘Utah’ as a place can get: red rocks, beautiful vistas, and pert-near vertical canyon walls on which to drive your Jeep Wrangler.
Yeah, that sound you just heard is the internet collectively drawing a sharp intake of breath.
Those who are familiar with off-roading, particularly rock crawling, will appreciate how hard a climb that is to make, despite the relative lack of drama in that Instagram video. Careful throttle inputs, down to the fraction of an inch, are needed to finesse a Wrangler – or any machine – up an obstacle such as this one.
Making the feat even more remarkable is the existence of a video showing the same Jeep, and presumably the same driver, calmly backing out of a failed attempt on another occasion. With those knobby tires slippery from the day’s rain, the Jeep loses traction about halfway up the cliff. Level-headed use of the brake pedal and steering wheel returned the Jeep back down the rock face without incident.
Nerves of steel. Your author would’ve required a fresh pair of pants, that’s for sure.
It isn’t that rig’s first rodeo, with its IG feed showing it taking on all manner of wheeling in the American southwest. Chuck and his Wrangler even appeared on a Science Channel program called ‘Outrageous Acts of Science’, demonstrating that a good approach and a dose of skill can get you pretty far in a well-built Jeep.
[Image: TrailJeeps.com]