I headed out from the house for a camping and trail run deep in the Cherokee National Forest, with one big goal: finally get my first real trail time on the new wheels and Falken Rubitrek tires on my 2024 Colorado Trail Boss. I didn’t get a standalone “new wheels/tires” install video done because it’s been a chaotic week and it gets dark around 5:30 where I live, so a lot of that work happened in the dark after work. I will say the Trailbuilt Off-Road wheel/tire package showed up well packaged and exactly what I ordered, but I had to get them rebalanced at Discount Tire—static balancing just tends to give me vibrations at highway speeds, so I had them road force balanced and it was much smoother. Once I was out there, the trip turned into a fun little adventure—especially when I realized we didn’t bring enough supplies for two days and had to make a town run without an electric cooler. My plan was to stay on dirt as much as possible, and what I thought would be about an hour and a half round trip turned into roughly three hours, with sunset hitting while we were still working our way back. I ran trails like Forest Road 126 and worked my way back up toward the Waucheesi Fire Tower Road area, which ended up being the funnest trail of the whole trip—rated a three, but mostly felt like a solid two with a couple spots that could push it. Camp was windy—gusts felt like they were around 40 mph at times—so it made things a little difficult, but the diesel heater helped a ton. The views up top were absolutely gorgeous, and if you get the chance to camp up there when it’s not muddy (and preferably less windy), I highly recommend it. I’ve got more trail videos coming, plus a more dedicated Rubitrek review once I get time with them on snow and dirt, and I’ll compare them (subjectively) to the Falken Wildpeak AT3s/AT4s from my past setups.