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- Well, it might look like we're on top of the world here,
but really we're just on top of Schofield Pass
outside of Aspen, Colorado.
I brought my friend Charlie MacArthur with me.
You're gonna do some kayaking down here
while I do some driving, right?
- Dude, you kinda overshot the plan.
- Well--
(laughter)
That's just kinda the way I do it.
(laughter)
But we're up here.
He's gonna take that way down.
I'm gonna take that way down.
I'm gonna try and get to the bottom before him,
only because I wanna see you shoot that waterfall.
- [Charlie] Devil's Punchbowl, 30 feet high.
(water rushing)
- 30 foot waterfall.
He's gonna hit it in the kayak.
I am not gonna hit it in the TRD Pro 4Runner.
But, along the way, this happens to be
one of the most dangerous roads in Colorado,
so it's gonna give a little test
to the 4Runner right now.
- A little class five driving, a little class five kayaking.
- Let's do this. You ready?
- Absolutely, buddy. - Have fun.
- Thanks, you too. - Glad to see you dry.
- Yeah, you, too.
(laughter)
- All right, here we go.
Let's do this.
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Pretty stoked chasing down here, down the river.
Hopefully I can get down before he does
so I can check out the big waterfall drop at the bottom,
Devil's Punchbowl.
Sounds sketchy to me.
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But speaking of sketchy, we've got
some pretty nasty road coming up here.
I don't know if I can make it around
without a little bit of help from this thing.
I'd like to think I could, but make my job easier,
gonna be a little bit of crawl control,
and a little bit of multi-terrain select,
which is kinda nice.
Takes a lot of the stress out of gnarly, off-road sections.
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I push on when I'm in four low,
and up here on the dash, we actually get a read out,
mud, sand, and dirt, loose rock.
Let's, loose rock I think is the perfect setting.
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We've got some pretty nasty road coming up here.
The road is about exactly as wide as the truck.
I gotta trust to the good old Nitto tires on here
to hold my grip, not let me do anything stupid
or else my wife will be really mad
if I end up at the bottom of one of these rivers.
This part right here, wow, see him over there.
Oh, we're kind of neck and neck right now.
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One of favorite things about the TRD Pro 4Runner
is the fact that it's great on the highway,
you get it off road and the Bilstein shocks
are perfectly tuned for both what we're doing right now,
which is just some little S-corners on a nice dirt road,
and then you start getting serious up here
a little bit further, really heavy rocks
and holes and rivers and ditches and all sorts of stuff,
and this thing just handles amazingly.
This spot right up here has really loose,
big like avalanche type rocks
that come down off the mountain up there.
I'm gonna try out the crawl control here.
It's so cool to have all these toys at your fingertips,
and it really helps, 'cause the rocks
are so slippery, and then to be able
to just hit a button up here on the dashboard
and have the truck do most of the thinking for you,
that's awesome.
(energetic music)
All right, let's see if we see our buddy Charlie.
He's coming down, but I wanna get
to the bottom before him.
I really wanna see him hit that waterfall.
(energetic music)
(water rushing)
(heart beating)
(water splashing)
(dramatic music)
(cheering)
(laughter)
Yeah!
That was incredible!
That is a pinball coming down there,
then you launched.
(laughter)
How's your back feeling?
- Pretty good; nice.
How was your drive?
- That was a very sketchy road.
I mean, thankfully I had the right equipment
for the job, but that's a sketchy road
as I've ever driven.
- Sick, wasn't it?
- Yeah.
And hey, back to the top?
- Absolutely.
- Hurry up, let's go.
- [Man] Do you want me to help him out?
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