Spent the weekend doing Off Road things with the Rivian. It's far, FAR, more capable than I am confident. Lifetime of track days, autocross, and drag racing, and felt more like a beginner here than I ever have at a car event before. Overall a really good time though. It was good timing for me as well considering the rest of the experience hasn't been stellar lately.
The truck is really really impressively capable. Serious rock crawling for a day, then swap into "sport mode" and go canyon carving on the way back to the hotel in the evening. The range of capabilities here is really impressive to me.
Once out in the trails though, the truck was very just "point and shoot" capable. Spent the entirety of the day under 10mph, but crawling over/through some of the most ridiculous terrain I've encountered. I'm sure for some of you off road guys these are like the bunny slopes, but it felt very impressive to me. The park has all the trails rated like ski slopes. Green/Blue/Black. We spent the day doing the "hard greens" and "easy blues". Some of the harder sections might have crept to "medium blue" range.
It wasn't what I expected, but was still great. They had a lead guy, middle guy, and tail guy. Those three were coaches for everyone as needed. They helped us pick good lines, and coached over the radio the whole day. Well worth the cash spent to have help for a noob like myself. Beyond that, the crew of people (much like jetboat folks) was super helpful and nice to be around. Real sense of comradery amongst the group.
Interestingly enough, the whole day used 35% of the battery. That's a 45min backroads drive from the hotel to the park, 6+hrs of off road time, and then another 45min back to the hotel. Only used like 11% "at the park" all day. Which really made the range feel like no big deal, despite getting efficiency readings down in the 0.3 mi/kWh range. I'll have to pull the data to see how far we really went. We charged ONCE on the way down (232 mi trip), and twice on the way back. Both Tesla SC stations. Once down there the hotel had a L2 charger we could use for free. Was getting a slow 2.8kW from it the second night after getting 6.8kW the first night. Either way, just that little bit was enough to refill for the day.
Finally, as we left a charging station looking like this......a Cybertruk pulled in and started to charge. This was probably the cleanest example I've seen. I'm not sure if it was brand new, or just really really clean. Anyway, the kids in the Model X you see in the background there hopped out and started just OOOing and AAhhhhing over the shiny truck after having completely ignored us pulling and sitting there. By the time we were backing out and pulling past, the kids were getting their picture taken in the frunk of the Cybertruk. My 13yr old pipes up, unpompted, and says "Wonder why those kids aren't impressed with a real truck like ours instead of that shiny dumpster"........I almost spit out my fresh coffee. Come to find out, he had spent the last 2hrs in the back seat watching videos of the Cybertruks failing off road.
Here's the pictures from the two days.
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Couple of my favorites from the weekend.
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I know the AT tires on the Rivian are going to be the limiting factor for me, suspension and power to weight are arguably just as well sorted, well and the extra 5k lbs I'm carrying 
