I am enjoying your videos, too. Good drone-cam work! It's heartening to see some one taking on that type of terrain with a Ranger that isn't all "SEMA'd out." Mrs. Motorpsychology & I go moose scouting up in the Minnesota Arrowhead-BWCAW area occasionally in our 2018 Escape. There are some USFS roads and atv trails that are good for the most part but there are stretches that we really shouldn't traverse with it. There's places in the Black Hills and Bighorn Mountains we'd like to explore further as well. Looking forward to future episodes when you can get to it. 
I wish I'd done a better job explaining and filming what was ahead, but unfortunately I was so exhausted at that point I was kind of over it, hah. The trail was starting to get a lot more rocky, with some big step ups and off-camber sections.Travis - although you most likely could have made it thru that "end of the road" (I've driven roads a LOT worse that that), I think you absolutely made the right call to turn around. You were alone and were quite a ways in. That one spot where you made the "bridge" scared the crap out of me just watching it! I'm glad you were able to make it over and back on that spot with no issues. I pushed it a bit too much once, and the back end of my 2005 Ranger slid off the road:
Fortunately, a friend of mine met me out there and helped rescue me. Had he not been there, I would have been walking out to get help. Every time I tried to get out, it just kept sliding farthter and farther off the road. By the time I stopped, the left rear tire was probably 8+" below the road bed. With no locker I had no rear traction, and even with the chains on the front, it wouldn't move.
I look forward to your next installment.....
Oh man, that’s living the dream. Makes me want to get an RTT, a 270, and a big ol’ dog. My wife sure is going to be pissed. I‘m really going to miss her.
