The Boys of Hummer; At a Pennsylvania resort, truck-crazy kids take an off-road spin in the ultimate Tonka Toy.

The Washington Post | February 4, 2004| | Copyright

The Hummer H1 can plow along tilted sideways at a 40-degree angle without rolling over, and can climb up and down a mountainside with a 60-degree slope, I'm told. But I brake at the top of a snowy hill: From here it looks like a sheer perpendicular drop of 90 degrees.

"It can take it," my driving instructor says.

So I inch the grille of the Hummer to the edge of the crest and hit the gas for a self-driven amusement-style ride. I gun the engine as we race through the icy ravine at the bottom, picking up speed so we can zoom up the other side of the incline. The twin boys in back simultaneously ...

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