Suzuki 4X4 Muddin' and YouTube

Hey Silverhorner's
Is it just me, or does anyone else find that they waste spend a lot of time watching YouTube videos? I get into that site and before long one video clip leads to another and then another, and before long, two hours has passed, and I am still going on to the next one....I just crawled through snow, mud holes and over big piles of rocks in a Jeep Renegade, a Chev Tracker, a Jeep Liberty and countless pickup trucks....without leaving the comfort of Silverhorn Lodge. In fact, I didn't have to step outside the door.....

I went on the YouTube site just to have a look around perhaps for a funny video to post here, and before I knew what happened, I was engrossed in one vid after another, until I actually needed a shower to get the mud off me....It's amazing where folks are willing to drive a $25000 vehicle....amazing....and the places some of those 4X4's will go is equally amazing. However, I have to question what possesses a person to take an expensive vehicle and immediately head out to the mountains to see just how big a rock it will climb over, or just how deep a mud hole their vehicle will swim through. In some cases, it's pretty impressive, although it must take weeks to dry out the interior of a sports utility vehicle that has been in water over the engine. 4X4 enthusiasts, as I think they like to call themselves, install a thing called a "snorkel" to their vehicles, which enables the engine to suck in the necessary air to run while the vehicle is basically submerged in water.

Take this guy for example....he's driving an older Suzuki, I think called a Suzuki SJ410, but it should be called a submarine....


Unbelievable...and to think that Marcello gets annoyed if I get a little mud on the floor mats of our little Chevrolet Tracker.....


Looks like fun.....uh-huh....here on the Silverhorn we use boats to go in the water, but perhaps they are an unnecessary expense....Actually all kidding aside, I do have a good deal of respect....no make that awe for some of the drivers of these vehicles. Having been stuck in mud, snow, dirt almost everywhere on Silverhorn Mountain at one point in my life, I am impressed with not only where these vehicles will go, but how skilled some of these drivers are, at getting into places that mere automobiles dare not go....In this video you can see the "snorkel" I mentioned above.

I know this has been a bit of a departure from the usual foolishness that we come up with here on Silverhorn Mountain, but occasionally I like to do something that adds a little culture to the internet.....