Frank and I made another Badlands run, this time without our friend's Tacoma.

Camp

and finally the steprails that my dad wouldnt let me take off

Sweet! how does that rear bumper guard hold up?

i would assume oyu are talking to me, it holds up great. A chevy silverado heavy duty hit me going 35 mph and it barely moved. Also used it to pull me out of a puddle yesterday but it finally bent some. But nice.
gprsh924, great pics

do yourself and your dad a favor

next time you wheel the truck
at least take those pontoons off.

keep you from damaging your rocker panels more than you really need to.

NICE pictures though
love the pose blocks

is that a park or just an area you guys know of?

Nice pics guys. Did you get a chance to hit the trails or you just mostly played in the quary?

Were the trails pretty much dry this time of year?

Looks like fun!

Nice pics!

You've never heard of it? http://www.badlandsoffroad.com

dont you still have em your truck?

yeah they where pretty dry. And one of the trails had a big hole dug out of it, so i had to go around adn almost tipped my car.I did the quarry bc there where some cool things to climb.

zuzuman03, he still has them on, rather the rock hit that first then the door sill.

we did a good mix of trails and the quarry, the trails were fairly dry but there were still some good puddles in the low spots

i told my dad i should take them off, but even after seeing that he is somewhat convinced that had they not been on the car, that dent wouldve ended up on the door panel rather than the steprail

frank got stuck in a mud puddle and when we yanked him out we put a nice bend in the bumper guard (we have towed off it multiple times, but this was the first time it bent)

I've never understood this argument. If the rock or whatever is tall enough to reach the rocker in the first place, it's not only going to trash the rail, it's going to smash it into the rocker as well...
If it's not tall enough to reach the rocker, well, it's still going to trash the rail and could still smash it into the rocker.

Thats exactly what happend to me, except it was a log. Driver side just in front of the door, knocked the step up into the rocker panel and back into the rear wheel. No big deal, it was all part of the evoloution.

thats how i feel but my dad paid for the car so i have to listen to him some of the time (im just happy with the fact that he lets me wheel it)

hmmm rock sliders
if it was up to gprsh he would have tires adn sliders i would presume

There's no reason you should be pulling off of that rear bumper guard when you're receiver hitch is a much stronger, safer recovery point. Check out recovery and extrcation techniques online, read books, and learn to work smarter The last thing you want to happen is get your junk stuck, then FUBAR yourself or someone else.
Outside of that, yeah, great pics Badlands looks like a lot of fun

no shit, haha
it was kind of a quick thing we had to do, i was shiking fast, and buddy just attached it to something. It also didnt help that i went forward initially and then in reverse