Flooded Trails In The Dark | Built Jeep Gladiator & Wrangler Wheeling in a Storm & At Night

It's almost April now. It's starting to get warmer outside, but it seems like Mother Nature isn't ready to let up just yet. I thought it would be fun to head out at night and go on an adventure to share with you guys. But as soon as we got to the trailhead, it started pouring rain. As we headed down the trail, it seemed like there was more water than there was dry ground. And it started to feel more like we were going out boating than off-roading. My name's Sean, and this is the story till now. What's up everybody, welcome back. Thanks for tuning in. I hope you're having a great week and staying safe out there in the midst of all this craziness that's going on. Today, we're getting ready to go out on a night mission. Something I've been wanting to do for a while. First, I wanna thank our new sponsor on the channel, Quadratec, for helping us out with that. We're gonna be installing their brand new stealth light bar for the JT and JL, which they were nice enough to send over to us. Test it out, see how it does out in the dark in the forest. So let's get started. So now we've tapped into the 12-volt power supply, and then this is gonna connect into our light. ♪ I wake up most mornings and I patch the holes ♪ ♪ And bail out the holes, I try to stay in motion ♪ This actually has a really nice connector for these wires, but unfortunately, I don't have a little screwdriver for here, so we're just gonna snip it off. So I'm about to make a fish. ♪ I will stay, so you can take it or leave it ♪ All right, we just finished installing the light bar. Let's turn it on and see how she looks. There's a few things I really like about this light bar, and one of them is that the seal around the edges is done so nicely so that no light leaks into the cab. It just looks really like it belongs there. It really has been well done. They also did a really good job with the wiring. The harness that they provided for wiring it right into your cigarette lighter is perfect so that it doesn't take up one of your aux switches, and it has its own switch on the actual light bar, which is great. Getting ready to go out on this night mission. Andy's got a brand new winch. We got here the Warren VR-12, steel rope. Hopefully we don't have to use this to pull me out of anything. Yep. All right, so we're just about to head out down the trail. Someone just stopped and let us know that somebody is stuck in some hood-deep water down one of the trails, so I think we're gonna go check that out and see what we can do to help out. What's going on? The light bar's not quite, it's not raising. There it goes, flickering. Woo! That is bright. All set? Yeah, let's do it. Sweet. You guys down by the tank trap there? Yep, we're gonna head down that way. It was clear the rain was not gonna let up, and we headed through a maze-like trail system searching for the 4x4 we had heard was stuck in some deep water. Now, this is usually a dry trail, but right now it looks like a river. We'd only been out about 20 minutes, and I was already soaked from jumping out of the Jeep with the camera. You see any lights? The water holes were getting deeper and deeper as we got further into the trail, and the rain was just relentless, but we still couldn't find any sign of the stuck vehicle. Back here, I see some water. No, I see it. So after searching for quite some time, I don't think there's anybody down here. Good saying that. I don't think I wanna go much further. We decided to call off the search as they'd most likely gotten out. We'd head back up to the main forest service road and go further into the mountain. A while later, we suddenly hit snow about three feet deep. It was wet and sticky, but luckily there were tire tracks for us to follow. The main issue we were running into, though, was the inability to turn around where we were gradually descending, meaning we'd have to climb back up later to get out. I don't think you can see me. There we go. So we came down here. We're gonna try crossing this river, but it's really dark. Water's really deep. So that's not gonna happen. Well, we did come down quite a hill in some deep snow, and now we're gonna have to get back up it. So that's gonna be interesting. We got turned around, threw the jeeps into four low, and began the climb back out of the snow. We good to come? I got less traction so far. All right, guys, it's the morning after our night mission. I hope you guys enjoyed that little adventure. It was my first time shooting one entirely in the dark, so that was a bit of a learning experience for me, but hopefully it translated well. I got a lot of questions about the Quadratex Stealth light bar after I posted it on Instagram. So after testing it out in the dark, I just wanted to talk about that a little bit. A lot of people were asking if there was any glare on the windshield. Now, there is like a seal that goes along the windshield and the roof. That is meant to prevent that. Did still have some light leaking out of the front, which kind of shined down onto the dash. I think that's because I don't have it tight up against the windshield, so that's something I might be able to adjust. Let me know what you guys thought of this video in the comments. If you have any questions about the Quadratex light bar, let me know about that as well. I'm happy to answer your questions. There's a link in the description if you're interested in buying one for yourself, and thanks again to Quadratex for sending that one over to us to test out. All right, guys, that's it for this video. My name is Shaw. This is The Story Come Out. I'll see you next week. Thanks for watching, guys. 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