BOG DAY AFTERNOON, Long-arm adventures.(rock crawling)

Byline: RICHARD S. CHANG At 3:30 p.m. we reached a trail Roy Fero would later call a "cow patch'': a steep, roller coaster drop of dry mud the color of walnuts rising up just as high on the other side, maybe 60 feet, crest to bottom. Fero's business partner Jeremy Purick sat shotgun in Rock Krawler's signature Jeep Wrangler Unlimited; Fero followed in a modified Jeep Liberty.

With the transmission in first and transfer case in 4wd low, the Unlimited tilted downward over the edge, and we lost the horizon to a spooky view of the plunging rough swath below. "The idea ...

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