My 9 year old and I were meandering around the Gifford Pinchot National Forest ( Pacific NW, Washington State, Mt St Helens, Mt Adams area ), breaking in the new truck and we came on our first opportunity to do a bit of more serious off-roading, but I chickened out ! The 9 yr old in his wisdom was sure we could do it, but with a grand total of 1200 miles of truck driving experience in my lifetime so far I decided "discretion was the better part of valor"
So we came on a washed out culvert. The approach into it wasn't too bad, but the climb back out of it was quite steep with quite an acute angle where the washed out bank met the road grade again. I was concerned about (a) the front of the truck plowing into that bank before the front wheels climbed enough ( approach angle issues ) and (b) getting high centered if the bottom of the truck hit the bank before the rear wheels started to lift out. I know I've got skid plates on the Rebel, but I wasn't quite ready to start bashing them up !
We were 6+ miles from the nearest paved road, which was a little-traveled road anyway so I didn't really want to get stranded, even though we had camping gear and food and water on hand.
Also, as you'll see in the pictures, a Forest Service rig had attempted to come through the culvert. He got through all right, but clearly did some damage on the way. The truck was abandoned there, no sign of the Forest Service guy. I guess he radioed for help and some-one came got him. I think my Rebel has better ground clearance than that Chevvy 2500 work truck, but even so, not having a radio on hand and not wanting to break my new truck, we turned around and re-routed.
Thoughts on whether we could have made it through successfully ? I guess it might be hard to judge just from the pics. The little guy is 4' 8" for scale.