Poison Spider is INSANE in the Rain! | ZR2s Off-Road

What's going on guys? We are back with another video. My name is Armando and I'm Nicole and in today's video it is the fourth and final day of the 2025 Red Rock Rally and the final trail we're doing is Poison Spider. So we are currently in our run group. We have six ZR2s with us so we are going to go see what kind of fun we can get into. The first major obstacle comes up less than a mile into the trail with a few different line choices to pick from. Our main challenge here was this larger rock. Right as you start climbing the wall it pushes the rear bumper straight into it. Slow, slow, slow. He's gonna hit. He's gonna hit. To get around that we stacked a few rocks on the back side to help lift the rear and keep the bumper from making contact. Yeah it should. Just nice and slow. Yep. Oh just missed it. Barely. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. We're clear. That's a diff. Okay. Oh so we just added a little tiny rock which we will put back after we get everybody up. But that tire was up there spinning so just needed a little. As you can see the rain has already started. What was supposed to be an overcast day with rain later in the afternoon quickly turned into conditions that were only going to get worse the further we went along the trail. It's a shock skid on my side. I just saw the rock be chipped. After conquering the first major obstacle we continued down the trail as the rain kept coming down taking this optional smaller downhill obstacle along the way. If you missed out on the fun of the 2025 Red Rock Rally you won't want to miss this year's event happening October 16th through the 19th. You can find out more information on our Facebook page under the events tab. The link will be in the description below. We made it to the next optional hard obstacle and of course the rain wasn't about to stop us from having some fun. You can see right behind me that's the bypass line for this section. There you go. There it is. The whole butt end slid this way. Yeah. This next obstacle is another optional one but it's a fun one. I know it doesn't look like much on camera but if I remember right this climb puts you close to a 30 degree pitch and all you can see is the sky on the way up. If you aren't subscribed make sure to hit that subscribe button and the notification bell that way you don't miss out on any more future videos. This next obstacle is a non-optional one known as the waterfall. It climbs uphill while curving which puts the truck in a pretty off camper position. Normally it's not too difficult but with the rain coming down harder you'll see a few of the trucks start to slide sideways on the way up. If you didn't catch it I was asking if he was locked and he wasn't. We gave it another shot fully locked but as you can see with the weight of the truck and the current conditions he just kept sliding further and further down making the climb impossible. So we decided to back him down and reposition for another attempt. As you can see the exact same situation happened again with this CR2. We did the exact same process backed him down repositioned so we can give it another shot. So we just all conquered the waterfall obstacle in the rain and the waterfall obstacle legit has a waterfall running down it right now. So this is Poison Spider on another level with it all being wet. We've got our next little climb here you can see how wet these rocks are it just makes it that much more difficult of a trail. It is actively raining really hard right now. We are still making our way up slick those those also those territory MTs do not like grabbing wet rock man. All right we have arrived at kind of the last major mandatory obstacle before making it to the top of the mesa of Poison Spider. So it should be interesting to see how the water plays a factor in this next obstacle. I'm trying something new this video keeping the music minimal and letting the natural sounds of the rain tires and engines take over. Let me know what you guys think down in the comments if you like this change or you prefer some background music. This optional obstacle has several different lines with the hardest being the one we decided to take. We went for it without a spotter and with the rain already soaking the trail it didn't take long to see how this was going to play out. With the multiple failed attempts I decided to hop out of the truck to help spot so that way we can conquer this obstacle. As I say in all my videos the camera never does these obstacles justice. They're way bigger than they look and once you add wet rock into the mix it makes getting up them that much harder. He cannot back up much look. Got a little trail repair going. There's a rock stuck somewhere along the shield that we gotta somehow pop it off. Put it in neutral. I don't think there's anything else in there. It sounds way better though. I think it's just that little rock. We got the wedge rock cleared and continued down the trail. We reached the loop section of Poison Spider. Running it clockwise takes you up the sand hill adding a fun challenge and let's just say our first 0-2 up got a little too excited in the sand. If you watch his wheels closely you can see them start to lose rotation. That's the traction control picking in and reacting to the loss of traction. In soft sand like this momentum is everything and you can see the traction control was killing his speed and preventing him from making it up the hill. We reached the back half of the loop which takes you up and down petrified sand dunes. It's a more relaxed section of the trail but it rewards you with some incredible views of the surrounding area. After a quick lunch stop we continued on finishing the last section of the loop and coming up on an unexpected amount of water. We had to do this water crossing and it is proper deep guys. You're just going to see how deep his bumper gets momentarily. Look at that bow wave. Got some wheel lift there and he's through. Oh got a wheel lift. Hell yeah. With the loop complete it was time to hit the mandatory obstacles again this time in reverse coming back down the trail. He's going in the hole. Okay. As we worked our way down the trail the rain let up for a short moment but as you can see it started right back up again. Use that terrain mode. Terrain. Got it. Okay. Oh boy. That back wheel. After a long day of wheeling we had finally reached the last major obstacle standing between us and the exit. With the final ZR2 conquering the final obstacle along Poison Spider I want to say a big thank you for watching this video in its entirety. Thank you all for those that came out and made the 2025 Red Rock Rally so special and memorable. I appreciate all of you and I hope to see as many of you at this year's Red Rock Rally and hoping to meet plenty of new faces as well. A little side quest for you. If you can tell me in the comments where this outro song is from I'll personally mail you a sticker to the first person that guesses it right. If you like the video make sure to leave a like and subscribe for more awesome content like this and I hope to see you guys in the next video.