By Chuck Wells

I want to take a minute and share some photos with you from my longtime friend, Tom Croak. Tom and I became friends when we were both active in the Colorado 4-Wheelers Four-Wheel-Drive Club years ago. Tom is a seasoned Jeeper, but also enjoys “backcountry touring,” as he likes to call it, in his stock ML500 Mercedes SUV. For the harder trails, Tom uses his lifted, locked and armored Grand Cherokee.