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My son and I did the “Fins ‘n Things” trail earlier today in Moab. This was our first time doing this trail, and the most difficult trail I’ve taken our new 2025 4Runner on so far. This is supposedly a 4 out of 10 rated trail for difficulty, but I was surprised at the steepness of some of the mandatory sections. I would have rated it higher, but it’s good to know what they call a 4 in Moab!
The 4Runner did great, even with its stock geometry and tires. I did slip a little in some of the steeper sections and scraped a little in some places. But nothing was broken, and I got out of this one without any scratches or dents. So, our 4Runner will still wash up shiny and new looking for the time being.
Since this is an iconic trail in Moab, I thought I would share some of the video we took. My son got out in a few sections to film from his phone. And I also saved the dashcam footage. The purpose of sharing this here is sort of an interesting “benchmark” for the 4Runner on a very well documented trail, whether you’ve been on it before or plan to visit someday. In my opinion, this is about as technical and difficult of a trail as I would want to take my ’25 ORP on, but others might be more adventuristic, and I may fall to peer-pressure myself.
I have been off-roading for many years, but this was only my second trip to Moab, and the terrain in Moab is very different from most of the “forest road” trails and loose rocky terrain that I am used to. There’s a lot of solid rock and soft sandy soil out in Moab that I’ve driven on. As for the solid rock (e.g., the “fins” on Fins ‘n Things), the surface is surprisingly grippy, despite the years of black rubber wear that you see on these trails. I imagine this place is very different when it rains – with slippery rock surfaces and the sandy soil sections turning to mud. But it has been beautiful dry weather for our trip so far.
On this trip, we started with Baby Lion’s Back on Thursday, which is more of a short obstacle than a trail, but worth mentioning. Then we did Onion Creek and Hideout Canyon on Friday. We also did a small part of Hell’s Revenge Friday evening just to ride the fins and a little bit of the trail near the trailhead. This was followed by Fins ‘n Things earlier today, and then finally Long Canyon this evening.
Here’s the two videos of Fins ‘n Things I put together from my son’s camera and the dashcam, showing how the 4Runner did on this trail (below). I think this is a great trail for testing out the 4Runner. The trail took us about 3 hours, and I edited the dashcam video down to 2 hours and 22 minutes by cutting out stops. I then sped up the dashcam video to 10X speed, which made it a little over 14 minutes. I didn’t figure anyone would want to watch over two hours of dashcam footage, but it might be interesting to watch a sped-up version if you’ve never seen Fins ‘n Things.
Video from my son's camera:
Dashcam video:
And a couple still shots:
The 4Runner did great, even with its stock geometry and tires. I did slip a little in some of the steeper sections and scraped a little in some places. But nothing was broken, and I got out of this one without any scratches or dents. So, our 4Runner will still wash up shiny and new looking for the time being.
Since this is an iconic trail in Moab, I thought I would share some of the video we took. My son got out in a few sections to film from his phone. And I also saved the dashcam footage. The purpose of sharing this here is sort of an interesting “benchmark” for the 4Runner on a very well documented trail, whether you’ve been on it before or plan to visit someday. In my opinion, this is about as technical and difficult of a trail as I would want to take my ’25 ORP on, but others might be more adventuristic, and I may fall to peer-pressure myself.
I have been off-roading for many years, but this was only my second trip to Moab, and the terrain in Moab is very different from most of the “forest road” trails and loose rocky terrain that I am used to. There’s a lot of solid rock and soft sandy soil out in Moab that I’ve driven on. As for the solid rock (e.g., the “fins” on Fins ‘n Things), the surface is surprisingly grippy, despite the years of black rubber wear that you see on these trails. I imagine this place is very different when it rains – with slippery rock surfaces and the sandy soil sections turning to mud. But it has been beautiful dry weather for our trip so far.
On this trip, we started with Baby Lion’s Back on Thursday, which is more of a short obstacle than a trail, but worth mentioning. Then we did Onion Creek and Hideout Canyon on Friday. We also did a small part of Hell’s Revenge Friday evening just to ride the fins and a little bit of the trail near the trailhead. This was followed by Fins ‘n Things earlier today, and then finally Long Canyon this evening.
Here’s the two videos of Fins ‘n Things I put together from my son’s camera and the dashcam, showing how the 4Runner did on this trail (below). I think this is a great trail for testing out the 4Runner. The trail took us about 3 hours, and I edited the dashcam video down to 2 hours and 22 minutes by cutting out stops. I then sped up the dashcam video to 10X speed, which made it a little over 14 minutes. I didn’t figure anyone would want to watch over two hours of dashcam footage, but it might be interesting to watch a sped-up version if you’ve never seen Fins ‘n Things.
Video from my son's camera:
Dashcam video:
And a couple still shots:
