My advice for wheeling in the Rockies is always bring enough food water and gear to spend the night even when your only planning on a day trip. Winter time it’s a good idea to have some dry fire wood snow chains and a five gallon can of gas for the rig. You don’t want to spend the night in the high country unprepared.

thumbs up for the adorable kid. I love seeing parents doing things like this with their young children.

The easiest explanation to use for how lowering your tire pressure helps you with surfaces like snow or sand. Stiff will penetrate, flaccid will not. 👍👍

A taco getting a Ford 250 out hillarious!

You know it’s Christmas when Toyota’s and jeeps get along 😂

Get criticized for not airing down when you don't. Get made fun of by wheelers if you do. #iloveyoutube

This is why it’s good to travel with a group

Dude, your camerawork and editing is insane. You need to be very proud of each of these videos you put out man. Every single one gets more and more amazing. Keep kickin ass brother 🤘

Thumbs up for making comments in the video about how everyone is going to shame you for not airing down! So true! #keyboardwheelers

"that winch is slow..." STFU! Use your winch then. haha. Wow, it looks like it was the first time wheeling for most of those people.

Looks like you guys had fun. Thanks for sharing your adventure! 👍🏼

I’m glad those people bother you Maxx. But I just think you can find some better people to convoy with. Some of those guys didn’t seem to value what you put in on that trip. They were lucky to have you. Stick by those who love and support you. Love the videos. Thanks for sharing brother!

Fun trip! We have camped up at Walupt lake a few times and spent a good amount of time hunting around the Mt Adams area. Always something new to explore in that area!

Thanks for making these videos. Tuned in for the truck, keep coming back for the adventures. You guys have a beautiful young family. Can’t help but smile watching your vids.

10:30, gee the rig with 20” wheels was having trouble? Wonder why? Lol

Great family day. Merry Christmas

sum beautiful footage..cool truck trip 2

Looks like lots of fun .

I love your videos. I just did a snow drive with some friends on Sunday. We went to Wilkeson. One piece of advice about the maxtrax is don’t let the tires spin. It’ll burn the nubs off. If it’s spinning you need to dig a little more. What’s funny is I’ve yet to use mine on my truck. It’s always to help someone else. Usually a car attempting to get somewhere it has no business going in what is classified as a wilderness zone, lol

When winching you really need to be standing at a safe distance or at least be in your truck. If that shackle on the F-250 broke it could send pieces flying towards you. Also never winch with the truck in park, should be in neutral with your foot on the brake instead. It's easy to forget if you don't winch often. Be safe out there

Great video and as always cute family! Merry Christmas!

Great vid! Beautiful countryside!!

Yeah...! It’s cool... I use it frequently - Thanks

Good stuff!!!! Merry Christmas.

Poor dude lol Merry Christmas!

Keep the great videos coming !!!!!!

Nice drone footage

Happy christmas everyone!!

Love the video. Especially your baby girl. Thanks for posting. Just got XBull traction pads today. Looking fwd to using them. Wish me luck ;)

Merry CHRISTmas Maxx and family!!! Enjoyed the trip. I’m sure you remember those stock days!!! At least he was out having fun and you guys took care of him. Good job Maxx!!! The food looked awesome 👍

Great day out. Really liked the video.

Great video man. Looks like the family had fun and the taco made it look easy even the stock OR

You have to JAM the maxtrax right under the tires, you can't just place it in front of the rig or else it won't be as effective.

cute kid!!! And those Hostile wheels on that runner are awesome!

Saludos looks fun!!

Looks like you had a great day. I hope your wife and family will be excited NEXT time.

I was able to see where you were with some excellent use of the pause button but in the future could you tell us where your going. While this would not be a daytrip for me id sure like to go check this place out in the summertime. Excellent use of your recovery systems.

Another fun vid merry Christmas powells

This group is never going to want to go anywhere without you ever again...

Cool video don't forget to live is awesome

GREAT FAMILY FUN!!

Great Video !

Good thing you had some extrication equipment with you and knew how to use it. Looks like some of your new group of friends didn't have much of a clue LOL thanks for the video

Beautiful truck bro

One of my favorite places! W. Lake!

Well the tan Taco is in street tires..... lol

Tacoma owes everyone lunch after all that.

Oh man looks like so much fun, your videos quality are excellent man, and the drone shots are cool too. Snow driving takes a lot of skills and balls, i usually air down and turn traction control off. Steady acceleration throughout but when there's a hill you gotta give it some speed and prepare to drift, pucker up and you'll make it through. We don't get this much snow in VA but when we do, my Tundra on 35's love to plow through it. Also with trucks you'll need some weight in the bed as well, i throw a few sand bags over my rear axles on snow runs.

Guy in the tan taco just sitting there....get your ass out and help/dig. Reminds me of the time I saw a bunch of teenagers stuck in the mud and wanted the helpful recovery vehicle driver (not in mud) to wade in mud with his recovery rope and attach/pull them out. Damn millennials!

Max everytime i watch ur videos its always a fun adventure, and youre encouraging me more and more to start my own youtube tacoma life!!!...I say this much..watching you with ur LT setup ima definitely stay away from it and just upgrade my suspension and delete sway bar, call it a day! lol Sweet video bud! Always a big fan of your tacoma and videos! #3GT

Awesome content dude!! Loved the adventure. Watching your vids, I am more convinced I need to buy a 4Runner. All my off-roading expeditions have been in my '14 Dodge Charger R/T (lol..I know!) but hey, I got the sense of adventure and a pair of REALLY handy mud mats

Your vids are inspirational man. 22 and about to graduate school. Definitely investing my first big boy job money into a badass rig like yours. Watching the headache the first timers are having makes me want to solo my adventures though lol.

Cool video dude haha.

Crazy, was just at that lake this summer, from Oregon

Finally a wheeling Video❤️

I run 35’s stock ⚙️ ‘s in my fj and still have a hard time in this slick Washington snow. On airing down seams to work best around 8-12 psi. 4H seams to work best for me

Merry Christmas

Knife Hand baby!! OORAH!

cant wait to get some traction boards, havent been in deep snow yet cause i dont wanna be stranded

This looks like fun I can't wait to become an overlander

You can use anything to push the valve in to air down stick keys anything :)

Love the content you're always putting out. One word of advice never stand next to the winch when using it, use either of the front doors as cover. When the line snaps you'll be glad you weren't next to it.

That guy in the tan taco was so unprepared for off-roading. Who airs down there tires and then doesn’t bring an air compressor 😂

lol explaining airing down to the wife. Shes like "yeah not interested". Same look my wife gives me when I explain this type of stuff to her. I always end with you don't care do you? ... nope lol

Nice video

great vid Maxx, wish i could ride up there with you guys in my JK

oh and yeah nice truck ;)

I was gonna say dont knock the stock taco... then he got him self in a jam 😂

Bro.... That Axe is getting rusty..... Firefighter SMH... haha Awesome video

New taco stock tires are soooo bad in snow/mud!!! 😂😂😂

Fun!

Word !

Love it Maxx. Way to go. Be careful with that winch though especially when you have it under tension. I always use a bag with some dirt/rocks/snow on the line so that if it snaps something is weighing it down. Just some friendly advice to consider.

Good old Max Tracks great Aussie product. You guys need snatch straps as well. Who goes into the snow without chains and only stock tyres????

Merry litmas 🔥

If you want some fun snow wheeling go to greenwater that’s where we’ve been going! I don’t think it’s that far from you, Also there’s a fb group called avants-off road they do light off-roading and there’s people all over western Washington in it, it’s a mixed group of vehicles!

Hey man, I follow your channel and love your setup. Have you noticed that on the new 2019s they removed the cubbyhole storage that your ARB Air Pump is. It is just flat side now. I used that cubby so much. Keep up the good work and have a safe New Years!

Looks like your just out there as a recovery service 🤣

great family. great video. How is it with two car seats in the back? hard to get the kids in and out?

Cute kids and nice family companions on the trip, I'll have family of my own some day and damn good Tacoma mods some day

It's good to see some Australian brands being used overseas - ARB and MaxTrax. An old saying here regarding the name Ford was it stood for "F*cked On Race Day" or "Found On Rubbish Dump". I can't say I disagree.

A Land Rover would go straight up that hill .Jk land rovers are good but not that good. Lovin’ it

The stock "AT" tires on the Gen3 Tacos are TERRIBLE. Mine just turn into slicks as they get loaded with snow. I'm surprised the guy in the TanTaco did as well as he did.

Can you make a full build list on your Tacoma

Question..how convenient are the baby seats in the back

I don’t typically like Asian trucks; more of a Ford & Jeep guy, but you have a nice setup.

I only have two maxtrax. I think it a good idea to have at least 4. I wonder if 4 of them would have made a difference in this situation?

Good video man. I like the instant narrative. Too many videos these days are mini EPIC movies. Please try to keep it simple, discuss the wins and loses real time. Thanks.

I dunno if you do air down for snow, you need the tyre to penetrate to bite into the compacted ice, not float on top, thats for mega tyres in the arctic.

You should have a pair of waders ready for t this weather

U from WA? Have fun just drivin in the snow recently. With my lifted disco and wife's range. Planning to get a 4runner off road or trdpro.

Sweet video what forest where you in

@maxxpowell which tripod do you use?

What are your favorite trails here in WA? Im in Tacoma and Id love some advice on where to take my Tacoma out for a drive.

I'd most definitely bail on a day like that. Too miserable.

Lol😁 did the stock taco go up the hill pretty easy?

Man, I can’t wait to get another Tacoma.

Maximo, next time I will tag along with you guys

Did you ever end up putting a front locker on your rig?

When r u headed out again for a snow run?? I’m located in Olympia, we should gather a few trucks to head up to Copper Creek one day!