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[perma]

This 2023 GMC Canyon AT4 Is Stuck on a Hiking Trail at 14,000 Feet in Colorado

The 2023 GMC Canyon AT4 may be one heck of an off-road pickup, but it has its limits as one driver learned the hard way in Colorado's Rockies.

www.thedrive.com

 

[Caseknife]

I think that an unreported side affect of Covid is that it makes people very stupid Kind of like petting the fluffy cows, wading barefoot in thermal pools and chasing bears shirtless.

 

[noharleyyet]

Looks high centered and citation worthy.

I've seen oblivious people on the Alpine Loop that links Lake City to Silverton & Ouray driving on the tundra.

 

[sccritterkiller]

 

[mtmuley]

Today's vehicles have great capability by flipping a switch or turning a dial. This can get dumbasses like that one in big trouble. I'm a little impressed by the Colorado. mtmuley

 

[perma]

Today's vehicles have great capability by flipping a switch or turning a dial. This can get dumbasses like that one in big trouble. I'm a little impressed by the Colorado. mtmuley

And let’s be honest. Driving skills and bad OEM tires probably got them stuck. Put some BFGs on and take a few laps around Black Bear Pass and you’re good.

 

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[Hem]

Why?

 

[buckbull]

time to call Matt's offroad recovery.

 

[buckbull]

Why?

Well, they are from Arkansas.....that answers alot of questions.

 

[OntarioHunter]

Well, they are from Arkansas.....that answers alot of questions.

Yeah. I heard the first question on the Arkansas driver's exam is "Write your name here." Only 31% answer correctly. They should make it multiple choice. Four surnames would cover most of the population.

 

[Addicting]

Looks like a great sling load training opportunity.

 

[D_Walt]

 

[Pucky Freak]

As long as every other 4x4 tv commercial continues to depict conquering some off-road mountain, I’d expect this to keep happening.

 

[more_cowbell]

Today's vehicles have great capability by flipping a switch or turning a dial. This can get dumbasses like that one in big trouble. I'm a little impressed by the Colorado. mtmuley

True and sometimes too much tech overthinks the situation. I watched a YouTube vid of Matts off-road recovery, a guy in Utah who rescues stuck rigs. He recovers a lot of new vehicles like ford raptors.

One time he had difficulty driving a newer tacoma out of the sand because the technology kept putting the truck into “nanny mode”. He wanted more throttle but it kept powering down or something. Sometimes you just need to let the ponies loose.

And one of those British guys on the grand tour was in a new Rover driving hard in deep loose dirt, and it went into limp mode.

But yes stuff like rock crawl and descent mode is pretty helpful

 

[Southern Elk]

Roll it down the mountain.

 

[Dsnow9]

Had a buddy forget to set a parking brake when we worked at a zip line course. His jeep launched off the cliff and landed at the base of one of the ziplines and needed to be removed asap. They hired a heli to haul it out. Unfortunately I was out of town but it sounded like quite the ordeal.

I’m guessing that may be how they get it off the mountain but the altitude may make that tricky. I know nothing about Heli…

 

[Oak]

https://x.com/sheriffalert/status/1691278520230555648?s=46&t=lVaP1F8V1NKaJpPkHszPsQ

 

[Beignet]

They clearly don’t have enough expensive shit bolted to the outside of their vehicle to be doing that kind of off roading.

 

[ismith]

That would be a pain in the ass to sling out of there.