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Friends of mine have had personal experience with them. They are rude and the farthest thing from courteous on trails and nearly killed my one friend when he was fixing his truck because they thought it was a grand old idea to do 40mph around a blind corner.
I never said whether hes doing it right or not all I said was driving through puddles on fireroads isnt offroading. Paragon and Tellico are offroading. And you know who I am to say so? Someone whose been into the sport and built trucks purposely to do so thats who. Everyone into offroading has their own facet whether it be mud, rocks, trails, or sand but one thing is for sure, driving down dirt roads dont count.
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Is this a particular group of Jeepers, or are you generalizing? I happen to belong to a large Jeep club (North Jersey Jeep Club,
www.northjerseyjeepclub.org [Shameless plug]) and I have yet to meet anyone in the club who is a prick. We promote safe, responsible LEGAL (Note the capital letters, because Paragon is now closed and therefore illegal to wheel) wheeling and require members to have safety and recovery equipment. I've seen plenty of toolbags in Jeeps and every other kind of vehicle with a transfer case. But not everyone who drives a Jeep is an irresponsible prick. Now I'm done with my soapbox.
As for the definition of wheeling, I've done the Pine Barrons. Not my cup of tea, but I can't say it's not wheeling because I most certainly had to use 4LO to get out of a few of those holes. After the snow melts and the plow comes off my Jeep, I'd love to go out to Rausch Creek (About 40 miles south of Paragon, similar terrain) if any of you guys are game. But that's another post for another month.