PLASTER CITY, CALIFORNIA: "Stop the car! You’re lost…" I was riding alone, full speed, trying to catch up with a group that, unbeknownst to me, wasn’t out front…but in fact, they were about 20 minutes behind at a turn I’d blown past while fumbling with my action camera. And not wanting to drift too far back, I let the heavy-duty cased cam bounce around for several miles after it'd fallen off on a section of whoops before it found its way behind my brake pedal.
Fine, I’ll stop. But this is when the caravan of 2026 Kawasaki Teryx H2 side-by-sides, the most powerful UTV in the segment, fell out of sight.
The ambient temperature hovered around 90 degrees Fahrenheit. Dust shimmered around me in the low-slung morning sun; dawn still had its hands on our shoulders, hovering over us as its light steadily pushed up into the sky. We’d started early. The high was projected to be in the 110s, and we couldn’t trust who could handle the heat.
